@kytta I'm assuming they are going to save important files, so:
- Do not try to make it cheap, if those fail it would be a lot more expensive.
- Advice your employer to subscribe to a cloud drive solution like Onedrive or Google Drive as a backup for everything important to be duplicated there.
- If the drives will potentially have confidential data, procure to buy some hardware encrypted ones.
- If the drives will be taken home with the users I recommend SSDs.