Portable SSDs

Portable SSDs and external drives

Ready-to-use external storage compared on real transfer speed, compatibility, heat, and durability.

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    Samsung T9 Portable SSD 2TBSamsung

    A finished drive rather than a drive and a box: nothing to assemble, nothing to get wrong. The price is the interface. USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 tops out near 2,000 MB/s against USB4's 40Gb/s, and Macs have historically been awkward with Gen 2x2. For a machine that mostly needs somewhere to put things, that ceiling rarely matters. Not tested here yet.