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The best external hard drive boosts your device's storage space while delivering faster read/write speeds. We've run the benchmarks, and these are my top recommendations. Through extensive testing ...

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That is still far more expensive than a standard portable hard disk drive of similar capacity but let's not forget why an external SSD is a better long run solution for storing your data ...

This palm-sized drive is super-fast, ultra-durable, universally compatible, and on sale for up to 31% off at Amazon.

Toshiba’s new drives bring style and portability, but miss the mark with outdated USB Type-A reliance and no 6TB capacity option.

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But these are small nitpicks that don’t detract from one of the best external hard drives around. The Samsung Portable SSD T7 looks like the T5, with its rectangular figure adorned by rounded ...

Do external SSDs come with security features? Many portable SSDs will now offer hardware encryption, which means you can set a password on the drive and have it be totally be protected.

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