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The best portable SSDs for 2024
We dug into the portable SSD market and tested more than a dozen ourselves to figure out which drives deliver the most value.
It’s hard to definitively say which portable SSDs are the most reliable, but we scoured through user reviews and feedback while researching this guide to ensure none of our picks show a pattern of catastrophic errors. It doesn’t stay quite as cool as the X9 Pro with continuous use, and its sustained write performance isn’t as fast either, so it’s worth paying up if you plan to regularly copy hundreds of gigabytes to the SSD (and can’t just get a higher-class model). Pros Blazingly fast 40 Gbps performance Slick metal enclosure Smaller than other Thunderbolt SSDs we tested Clever built-in fan Five-year warranty
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