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If you search for a portable drive, chances are you’ll run into a WD My Passport from Western Digital. For years, this brand has been a popular and safe choice of storage on the go. The latest version ups the storage space to 5TB with the suggested retail price of …
The WD Black P10 is the first in a series of Game Drives announced earlier this month. But you don’t need to be a gamer to appreciate it. The portable drive is fast in my testing, and its rugged, cool-looking design is a boon for any user. On the downside, …
There are secure portable drives with hardware encryption options, like the Samsung T5 or the WD My Passport, and then there’s the iStorage diskAshur PRO2. This is an ultra-secure storage device, a tamper-proof vault, complete with a numeric keypad, with ample storage space inside. Yet, it manages to remain almost …
The recently released G-Drive Mobile USB-C from G-Tech is similar to the previous model released two years ago. It’s now just slightly faster and includes two new capacities, 2TB and 4TB. If you think the new capacities are not a novelty, you’re right. There are plenty of 2TB and 4TB …
If most portable SSD drives are fast cars, the new Samsung X5 Portable SSD is like a private jet. It’s super-fast, luxurious, and expensive. Most importantly, it’s not for everyone. This is because the drive works with Thunderbolt 3 exclusively. Consequently, it’s not compatible with any other connection types, including …
The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD is indeed quite extreme. First, it’s incredibly speedy and compact—even faster and more compact than the already super-fast and -small WD My Passport SSD, or the Samsung T5, for that matter. And at an average cost of just $0.27 per gigabyte, it’s also more affordable. What’s …
The My Passport SSD 2018 version, available up to 2TB, is a bit of a surprise. Even though it appears very similar to a namesake drive that shipped last year, it’s different enough to qualify as a new portable drive entirely. For one, it’s faster, in fact, one of the fastest …
