External SSDs

Your phone says storage full, but you still have 12,000 photos to back up, a family video shoot to finish, and that 4K project from last weekend that hasn’t moved off your device. I have been there. After three months of testing with a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, a Pixel 9 Pro, and a half-dozen […]

I was halfway through a 40-minute interview shoot on my iPhone 15 Pro when the dreaded “Storage Almost Full” alert popped up. ProRes 4K was eating roughly 6GB per minute, and I had burned through 200GB of internal storage before the second act even wrapped. That day I drove home, bought a portable SSD, and

A photographer friend of mine once watched a $3,000 camera bag tumble down a flight of stone steps in Lisbon, with a regular portable SSD rattling somewhere inside. The drive died. The trip’s photos died with it. That was the day I started recommending rugged external SSDs for travel instead of standard portable drives, and

The best external SSDs for Mac Mini solve one of the most frustrating problems with Apple’s compact desktop: limited internal storage. After upgrading my Mac Mini M4 base model (256GB of internal storage) last spring, I discovered how fast the drive fills up when you install Xcode, Adobe Creative Cloud, Logic Pro, and a Steam

I tested the best external SSDs for Steam Deck over six weeks, cycling Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Baldur’s Gate 3 between an OLED model and a 512GB LCD unit. The pain point is universal: 256GB stock drives fill up in a weekend, and AAA games routinely push past 100GB each. After burning

When I unboxed my Xbox Series X three years ago, the 1TB internal SSD felt like a lot of space. Then I downloaded Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (131GB), Starfield (125GB), and Forza Horizon 5 (103GB), and I was already juggling uninstalls. After testing 18 external SSDs across 60 days of real gameplay,

When our team set out to find the best external SSDs with hardware encryption in , we didn’t want another list of marketing bullet points. We spent six weeks testing 12 drives in real-world conditions, throwing everything from 4K video files to government-grade compliance docs at them. The result? Eight drives that actually deliver on

I’ve been running external SSDs on MacBooks for almost a decade, and the situation in is more competitive than ever. Base-model MacBook Air and MacBook Pro still ship with 256GB of soldered storage that fills up the moment you import a Final Cut library or a Logic Pro session. The right external SSD for Mac