Pick Up a Portable Drive to Protect your Precious Photos

Having more megapixels and higher resolution video isn’t always a good thing. Shooting with the latest cameras is almost certainly going to fill up your hard drives quickly. I know from personal experience, having recently picked up a 61MP Sony a7R IV from which each raw file exceeds 100MB and a couple of minutes of 4K video, will take up gigabytes of space. At home, I have the luxury of a RAID array but, when I’m working on the train or using my laptop at a trade show, I need storage that is a bit more portable. Here are some solid picks for mobile storage solutions.

G-Technology G-SPEED Shuttle 20TB 4-Bay Thunderbolt™ 3 RAID Array with Two ev Bay Adapters

LaCie Rugged Mini USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

This is the ubiquitous portable hard drive. LaCie’s now-classic orange bumper and sleek enclosure can take a beating and leave your data unscathed. The Rugged Mini is effectively universal, with its USB 3.0 interface and bus-powered design, allowing it to be used without any additional power supply. Being a standard hard drive means it’s relatively affordable for its capacity, with 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB models available. The connection is decently fast, too, with speeds up to 130 MB/s. It’s a solid drive for nearly everyone.