Offering security, ease of use, and speed. The arrival of SSDs has been a boon for high-speed external storage. Though smaller in capacity than price-equivalent mechanical drives, recent advances have brought multi-terabyte solid-state to the fore. The latest iterations use the NVMe host controller specification for supremely fast speeds, helped on by bridging over to Type-C USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) or, at the very high end, Thunderbolt 3 (40Gbps). Cutting-edge drives such as the WD My Passport SSD are able to read and write large files at up to 1GB/s, meaning a whopping 1TB of data - for even the biggest projects - can be moved in little more than 15 minutes.