Rugged external mini SSD
SanDisk Extreme Portable 1TB SSD
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Best ultrafast gaming SSD for PCs and consoles
WD Black P40 Game Drive
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Best for expanding storage for Xbox Series X/S games
Seagate Storage Expansion Card
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Best for expanding storage for PS5 games
Seagate FireCuda 530 with Heatsink
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Well-priced ultrafast SSD from Kingston
Kingston XS2000
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Best value for Xbox One
WD Black P10 2TB
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Best value high-capacity drive for PS4 games
Seagate Game Drive 5TB
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Top SSD for game consoles
WD Black D30 Game Drive
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Rugged ultrafast SSD
SanDisk 1TB Extreme Pro Portable SSD
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Best eco friendly external drive
Seagate Ultra Touch 5GB
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Best-value desktop drive
WD My Book 8TB (for Mac or Windows PCs)
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Rugged workhorse external hard drive
LaCie Rugged USB-C 5TB Portable HDD
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What’s the best external storage drive?
The best external drives are compact solid-state drives that use flash memory and don’t have any moving parts. They’re unlike larger traditional hard drives, which are equipped with mechanical platters and a moving read-write head to access data. But while SSDs have come down in price over the last few years, they still tend to be expensive, particularly for higher-capacity drives.
Top-end SSDs designed for video professionals now offer lightning-quick transfer rates as high as 3,000MB/s so long as they’re connected to newer computers with the speediest USB-C interfaces (for example, the…
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