Team Group's T-Create Expert P34F 1 TB Portable SSD with Find My pairs a solid, Apple-friendly design with AirTag-grade tracking that works flawlessly. Its huge SLC cache offering sustained writes over 860 MB/s make it great for long transfers, even if the 10 Gbps link holds back peak speed.
ADATA's Urban Tapsafe 2 TB NFC Portable SSD stands out with a premium build, interchangeable faceplates, and a clever NFC lock that is very convenient in daily use. It also delivers strong 20 Gbps speeds and a large SLC cache, though the premium price and short NFC range keep it from being an easy buy.
ADATA SD820 Portable SSD 1 TB pairs rugged IP6X dustproofing and IPX8 waterproofing with fast 20 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 speeds. It is a strong pick for creators and travelers who want a compact drive that can handle rough conditions without slowing down.
The ADATA SC735 2 TB Portable SSD combines a lightweight, rugged design with impressive performance, making it a standout in the portable storage market. With sequential speeds maxing out at 1 GB/s, it's an excellent choice for gamers on the go. Plus, it boasts a generous five-year warranty.
Seagate Ultra Compact SSD looks like a flash drive from the early 2000s, but packs a mean punch with performance that can crush the fastest SATA SSD, alongside many of the conveniences you expect from flash drives. The drive can take a beating, and its performance makes you wonder if you even need a faster portable SSD.
The D1 SSD Pro is one of the first M.2 SSD enclosures with an 80 Gbps Thunderbolt 5 interface that's completely fanless, and hence silent. The heft from the sheer mass of its extruded aluminium body offers sufficient cooling for high-performance Gen 4 M.2 SSDs, to saturate its high-bandwidth bus.
ASUS ROG Strix Aiolos is a stylish, compact, and fanless portable M.2 SSD 20 Gbps enclosure, morphing NVMe and SATA M.2 SSDs into formidable external storage for your gaming notebooks, phones and handhelds. This ROG Strix device has plenty of RGB bling without compromising on practical features.
LaCie Rugged is a popular line of portable storage devices backed by an iconic, timeless style of an orange silicone frame holding a solid metal drive. This design spanned the HDD and SATA SSD era, and now enters the NVMe and 40 Gbps USB4 era, offering snappy file transfers while retaining its hallmark tough physical construction.
The Envoy Ultra 2 TB is a blisteringly fast portable SSD from Other World Computing that leverages 80 Gbps Thunderbolt 5 and USB4 V2 interfaces to give creators sequential speeds of 6 GB/s. The cinema pro crowd filming 8K should particularly like this drive, which comes in up to 8 TB models.
The new SilverStone MS12-40G is a compact and lightweight M.2 SSD enclosure featuring a 40 Gbps USB4 or Thunderbolt 4 interface with fan-based active cooling, letting you give an unused M.2 NVMe SSD a new lease of life as a formidable portable SSD.
The OWC Express 1M2 is a portable enclosure for M.2 NVMe SSDs that supports 40 Gbps on USB4 or Thunderbolt systems. It is among the rare few enclosures in its category that doesn't need active cooling, with its body doubling up as heatsink. It's also sold with preinstalled SSDs, but we're testing the one you pair with your own drive.
AGEEN TB001 is a nifty little aluminium enclosure that converts M.2 NVMe SSDs to a 40 Gbps Thunderbolt or USB4 portable SSD, and provides active cooling. It's crazy how easy it is to set the thing up and get running. Its simplicity and performance should surprise you.
The Crucial X10 delivers simplicity, solid performance, and Micron’s trademark reliability in a pocket-sized form factor that punches above its price, which together make it one of the best portable SSDs around, offering a wide range of capacities.
With the P900, HP is finally releasing a USB 3.2 2x2 20 Gbps capable portable SSD. In our review we can confirm that the speeds are good, reaching well over 1 GB/s, even at lower queue depths. Thanks to an all-metal shell, the drive is very durable and the matte black paint job is resistant to fingerprints.
The Kingston XS1000 is a highly compact USB 3.2 Gen 2 portable solid-state-disk offering transfer rates up to 1.25 GB/s (10 Gbps). Thanks to the use of a modern controller, there is no need for a dedicated USB-to-NVMe bridge chip, which helps reduce the physical dimensions, and pricing is good, too.
The Sabrent Rocket Nano V2 is an ultra-compact high-speed portable SSD using the USB 3.2 2x2 interface, which allows transfer speeds of up to 2 GB/s. The Rocket is not only fast but also comes with a durable shell made from thick metal.
The Netac ZX20 transfers data over the blazing fast USB 3.2 2x2 interface, which offers transfer rates up to 2 GB/s. Test results in our review confirm that this is the fastest portable SSD we've ever tested, and while not cheap, it's reasonably priced at $120 for the 1 TB version.
Datalocker uses its impressive patent portfolio and experience to put forward the DL4 FE range of encrypted external hard drives. The DL4 FE comes in HDD or SSD flavors, with storage capacities of 500 GB going up to 15.3 TB, and features an integrated touch screen with on-device encryption and management. There is also support for Datalocker's SafeConsole remote management platform to make the DL4 FE an attractive, secure storage solution for companies both large and small.
Lexar aims to take over the increasingly popular CFexpress market with its new Type B DIAMOND series memory cards that promise high performance, taking full advantage of the accompanying USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 card reader. It's a product directed at content creators shooting and recording RAW 4K/8K videos where performance and reliability matter most.
The ADATA Elite SE880 External SSD uses the blazing fast USB 3.2 2x2 interface, which offers transfer rates up to 2 GB/s. In our review we can confirm that these speeds are reached. Physically the drive is well built and surprisingly compact, especially considering its performance class.
Lexar aims to take over the increasingly popular CFexpress market with its new Type A GOLD series memory cards that promise to be the world's fastest while costing less than the competition too. We put it to the test today and pair it with the simultaneously released CFexpress Type A/SD card reader too.
The Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 80 is a Portable SSD that comes with serious hardware security. All data is encrypted by a hardware engine and access only gets unlocked after you enter the password on the device's touch-screen. Too many wrong attempts and your data will self-destruct.
The Silicon Power Armor A66 is a line of portable HDDs available in capacities of up to 5 TB. The 5 TB version sells for a highly competitive $120. Thanks to an IPX4 rating, the drive is water-resistant, and MIL-STD bump testing ensures it will survive drops from reasonable heights.
The Team Group T-Force M200 is a high-end portable solid-state drive that uses the blazing-fast USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 interface to reach transfer rates of up to 20 Gbit/s. Team Group combined metal and plastic to create a rugged industrial design inspired by the M200 sniper rifle ammo cartridge.
Silverstone decides the realm of M.2 SSD enclosures could use a shake-up, especially as PCIe Gen 4 SSDs run fairly warm and come with pre-installed heatsinks. The TS16 external docking station employs an open layout to fit such NVME or SATA M.2 SSDs for fast desktop add-on storage over a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C connector.
