By proceeding to purchase and take advantage of this promotion, you accept the following: The trade-up discount you receive is an incentive to recycle and to purchase a new Samsung appliance, laptop, monitor or television; it is not a trade-in value for the product you are recycling. Like the WD Black P50, the SL660 won't deliver its maximum performance unless your PC is one of the few with a USB 3. Most use the HHHL (half-height, half-length) form factor, letting them fit into compact, low-slung PCs, and plug into the same PCIe ports you'd plug any other expansion card. This physical type is not necessarily an indicator of which specific USB transfer-rate spec the port supports. Although we endeavor to present the most accurate and comprehensive information at the time of publication, we reserve the right to make changes without prior notice.

Our summary reviews above and spec chart below are sure to expose at least one model that is perfect for you.Manufacturers have ways of reading a drive to determine how many terabytes have been written to it over its lifetime, so make sure before you submit any warranty requests that you haven't already gone over your TBW before the warranty period has expired. The built-in fingerprint scanner is the most convenient way to unlock your data that we’ve seen yet. A further wrinkle around the PCIe bus: All recent drives and slots support a transfer protocol known as NVMe (for Non-Volatile Memory Express).

The NVMe SSD allows the XTRM-Q to easily fit in the palm of your hand, making it an ideal accessory for those frequently on the go. Enjoying this terabyte SSD is as convenient as plugging in the 870 QVO into a SATA slot, and letting the renewed migration software take care of the rest. The Beetle is small and light enough to be taken anywhere, and it offers some protection from tumbles. This time, Samsung decided to develop the 870 QVO to target the 8TB SSD market instead of marketing it as a cheaper, low-capacity alternative.This can be a drawback for those who take their SSDs into dangerous environments (think wildlife photographers or first responders), so be sure that before you go this route, you know what your drive will be exposed to. If you are a creative professional in the market for an external HDD, be sure to check this drive out. NVMe is a standard designed with flash storage in mind (opposed to the older AHCI, which was created for platter-based hard drives).

You can forget the WD Black D50 Game Dock if your PC doesn't have a Thunderbolt 3 or 4 port, but if your system has the interface to support it, the D50 combines up to 2TB of high-speed storage with a plethora of ports for other peripherals and monitors: two USB 3. The only thing this drive has over them is you can get it in a larger capacity and that simply isn't worth all the drawbacks that come with it. The groundbreaking capacity of the 870 QVO doubles its reliability up to 2,880 TBW compared to the previous model 860 QVO and is backed by a limited warranty of 3 years. Right now, aside from the avid videographer or data scientist, there aren’t many users that need to cram 8TB into a laptop.Seagate launched its IronWolf Pro 125 series of drives for those who have a high workload configured for their NAS enclosure.

A general rule is that smaller drives (anything under 240GB) will cost more per gigabyte, getting cheaper as you go up to the 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacity tiers.

It's also tough enough to earn an IP55 ingress protection rating against sand, dirt, or rain, though it shouldn't be immersed in water, and its USB-C 3. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that bling, but Lexar's SL660 Blaze Game Portable SSD has more to offer than a handsome removable stand, protective pouch, and snazzy RGB lighting that'll complement a tricked-out gaming rig. SATA SSDs are also cheaper than NVMe SSDs, but at 8TB, the difference is not much, so endurance should be the main factor you consider. Regardless of which you go for, you'll be able to upgrade your bandwidth and improve overall NAS performance. A tiny yet highly capable external SSD, the Crucial X9 Pro scored well in our benchmarks and comes in capacities up to 4TB.