🛒Top Five Best Portable Drives: The Ultra-secure, Extra-rugged, and Super-fast
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Portable drives are storage devices that conveniently carry a large amount of data from one computer to another. Or you …
Portable Drives
An extensive collection of hands-on, no-nonsense reviews on portable drives — external storage devices that connect to a host via USB or Thunderbolt standards. Hint: You can’t have fast speed via USB 2.0.
Spacious 6TB WD Portable Hard Drives Now Available Across Multiple Popular Lineups
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If you’re looking to carry lots of data on the go but can’t afford a portable SSD, Western Digital has …
Samsung Thumb Drives Gets Double Capacity to 512GB
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If you’re looking to carry a lot of data on a little storage device, there’s some exciting news about Samsung …
Other World Computing Unveils New Portable SSDs and Super-fast CFexpress Memory Cards
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Other World Computing (OWC) today announced a selection of storage devices for “professional filmmakers or extreme action photographers.” These include …
New Samsung T5 EVO Puts up to 8TB of Rugged Storage in Your Pocket
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Samsung today unveiled its T5 EVO portable state drive (SSD)—the first on the market that can hold up to 8TB …
Samsung T9 Review (vs. Crucial X10 Pro): Totally Fast but Could Use a Price-Cut
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The Samsung T9 Portable SSD, announced on October 3, is easily the best USB external storage the electronics giant has …
Synology BeeDrive Review: A Surprisingly Effective Little Backup Solution
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At first glance, the Synology BeeDrive portable SSD, first announced in May 2023, is an odd device. It has nothing …
Micron Crucial X10 Pro Review (vs. X9 Pro): Turning Things up to Eleven
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On the one hand, the Crucial X10 Pro is Micron’s first USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20 Gbps) portable SSD—rivaling the …
Crucial X9 Pro Review: A Surprisingly Fast, Spacious, and Compact Portable SSD
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Over two years ago, I reviewed the Micron Crucial X6 and thought it was the tiniest portable SSD that’s fast …
Micron Unveils Two New Compact and Fast Portable SSDs, the X9 Pro and X10 Pro
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Here’s some exciting news for portable SSD fans. Micron today releases not one but two new drives, the Crucial X9 …
SanDisk Professional PRO-G40 SSD Review: Rugged, Fast, Versatile, and Expensive
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Per conventional wisdom of portable storage: If you get a Thunderbolt 3 (or 4) drive, it won’t work with USB …
SanDisk PRO-BLADE TRANSPORT (with a 2TB SSD Mag) Review: A Proprietary and Super-fast Portable Storage
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Western Digital unveiled its PRO-BLADE Mag in May this year, a concept harkening back to the era of the Zip …
WD BLACK P40 Game Drive Review (vs. P50): A More Compact, Colorful Alternative
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The new WD BLACK P40 is a slightly smaller and more colorful version of the P50 that came out almost …
Samsung T7 Shield Review: An Excellent Rugged Portable SSD for Anyone
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On April 26, 2022, Samsung released the T7 Shield—a new variant of its flagship portable solid-state drives (SSDs), the T7 …
