LaCie Rugged is a popular line of portable storage devices backed by an iconic, timeless style of an orange silicone frame holding a solid metal drive. This design spanned the HDD and SATA SSD era, and now enters the NVMe and 40 Gbps USB4 era, offering snappy file transfers while retaining its hallmark tough physical construction.

The Envoy Ultra 2 TB is a blisteringly fast portable SSD from Other World Computing that leverages 80 Gbps Thunderbolt 5 and USB4 V2 interfaces to give creators sequential speeds of 6 GB/s. The cinema pro crowd filming 8K should particularly like this drive, which comes in up to 8 TB models.

The new SilverStone MS12-40G is a compact and lightweight M.2 SSD enclosure featuring a 40 Gbps USB4 or Thunderbolt 4 interface with fan-based active cooling, letting you give an unused M.2 NVMe SSD a new lease of life as a formidable portable SSD.

The OWC Express 1M2 is a portable enclosure for M.2 NVMe SSDs that supports 40 Gbps on USB4 or Thunderbolt systems. It is among the rare few enclosures in its category that doesn't need active cooling, with its body doubling up as heatsink. It's also sold with preinstalled SSDs, but we're testing the one you pair with your own drive.

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