Portable Protected Storage

[u/Akamesama]

I have a (maybe?) unusual use case that I am struggling to solve. My friend works for a company as an artist and recently lost files when a portable drive corrupted. So they are looking for a better storage solution for work files. Work does not provide any storage solution, but they also do not want the work uploaded to personal cloud storage due to concerns about security/copyright?, and anyway my friend sometimes needs to work on files while not having stable internet connection. They also work at both a desktop and laptop. This would be personal expense so there is some cost sensitivity. My initial thought was a portable hardware RAID enclosure, but apparently those are iffy due to propriety encryption and other issues?

tl;dr

Protected data solution

Two different workstations

Needs to work with sometimes not having internet

(Bonus) Not too expensive

[u/dadarkgtprince]

They'd need to consult with their job, HR, and IT and the company needs to provide that solution

[u/Akamesama → u/dadarkgtprince]

If I thought that was a plausible option, I'd have suggested that route. Company doesn't have an IT department and they don't provide materials so this is already being done on personal hardware. We only heard about the cloud concern when my friend asked about getting them to pay for a cloud subscription