When the time comes to buy a new laptop, there isn’t a whole lot of reasons against looking for one that offers SSD or flash storage, especially as laptops are closing in to match desktop performance, powered by the latest Intel Skylake CPUs, and hardware accelerated GPUs, capable of 3D gaming, as well as professional applications.

The good old Hard Disk Drive is on its way out, with SSDs and flash drives being the last nails in its coffin.

The LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt is the latest iteration of the Rugged USB 3.0 Thunderbolt Series. If you are looking to take your MacBook or Windows 10 laptop out for a spin in the dirt, this little drive will keep your data safe, within a thick, orange rubber enclosure, featuring a IP 54 protection rating.

Although solid state drives (SSD) do have numerous benefits over traditional hard disk (HDD) equivalents, the one drawback is that they tend to cost more per gigabyte.