My first boss was a real fanatic about backups, and taught me to always compound the odds in my favor. MIL-spec ruggedness is a way of doing that and, along with the availability of lots of space for files, made it pretty easy to pick this drive out of the many other models available on the market.
bus-powered; rugged; USB 3.0; fast; AES 256-bit encryption; Thunderbolt interface
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