The Panasonic Toughbook of USB drives is here. LaCie's new XtremKey USB drive, advertised as "the most adventurous USB drive," can survive just about anything. In fact, the promotional video that LaCie released shortly after its announcement shows an XtremKey that survived getting run over by a...

Extremely durable; Unique design; Above average read and write speeds; 4GB cloud storage included,

Expensive for a USB storage device

Thumb drives are all around us, and have really come the default storage media of choice for moving data around. They are reliable, cheap and easy to carry around. There are also so endless versions of USB-memories around it's extremely difficult to stand from the crowd.

Will not break; Extremely fast

Can be hard to open

Not all USB drives are created equally. Most are relegated to being generic tsotchkes handed out at conventions, but on the other hand you have the LaCie XtremKey ($50+) which offers industrial-grade data protection.

Having a small and portable USB flash drive capable of carrying around most of your important files is all well and good, but the more you take it out, the more likely it is you'll accidentally damage the drive - putting your important files in danger.

Probably would have been fine for someone that knows what their doing.

wickedly fast, water tight and impervious to punishment

Fast; High Capacity; Portable; Reliable; Tamper Resistant

A Little Bit Large

If we weren't dealing with technology, we could call the XtremKey "the last thumb drive you'll ever buy." Ever-increasing demands for storage pretty much guarantee that won't be the case, but we might try "the thumb drive for people who can't afford to destroy thumb drives.

Attractive; practical industrial design; Ultra-rugged shell for durability; Quick read and write speeds; Capacity up to 64GB

Large; rather heavy form factor; Expensive relative to capacity; Not much margin for excess on rated shock limits

The LaCie XtremKey USB 3.0 is a very solid, reliable USB drive.

I don't understand why these high capacity USB keys come preformatted with FAT32. I always reformat them as NTFS so that I can put large movie files (6Gb) on them. This USB key is really tough, and could survive a lot. I will use this as off site backup and send out of state.

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inside usb broke into 2 pieces; the protection is only for outside, and quality is bad