Solid-state drives – aka SSD – used to be really expensive ... reliable SSDs that cost only slightly more than their hard drive counterparts. As well as being faster than conventional hard ...

A hard drive or solid state drive (SSD) that resides outside the computer's case, typically connecting via USB or eSATA. A USB flash drive is also external storage. See portable drive and USB drive.

But choosing an external SSD means sorting through a dizzying array of options, and making a poor choice can leave you feeling hard done by ... Our external drive evaluations are thorough and ...

And, of course, you should always have an external drive available for making Time Machine backups in case ... hard drive is still the most affordable option. (If it’s an SSD you are after ...