By now everyone should be familiar with Flash or Thumb drive. They are cheap, super easy to use and work in just about every device from desktop PCs to servers, mobiles phones and tablets. Before the advent of flash drives we had portable hard drives and the ever popular floppy disk. Things have come a long way since the days of the floppy disk and despite the size and storage capacity they suffer from one fatal flaw. They are darn slow!

Most of the time we don’t notice the speed issues unless you have a rather large file to move. In those instances you spend more time looking at the clock while waiting for the progress bar move. Personally I find that an external hard drive is often faster than a flash drive as you get all the benefits of rotational storage and the portability of a flash drive.

In this review I’ll be showing you the new HyperX Savage EXO portable SSD. This was a device we saw during CES 2018 and is clearly the right solution for the external storage problem.