Relatively rigid, it well protects the drive, which is well maintained by the two elastic.
Another advantage of this cover: it's the only one I could find that integrates a rag for cable and protection between the tailgate and drive: no risk of scratching the surface of the disk with the connectors of USB cable. This little protection integrates 3 more (all) small storage, SD card, for example.
So it is an expensive or hair, but this is by far the hard drive for the best designed cover that I could find.