Blazing speeds... at a price. Most of us have become accustomed to the buttery-smooth and whisper-quiet experience provided by solid-state drives (SSD). Now legion in laptops and desktops, it's inevitable that anyone looking for portable external storage will want the same benefits when moving large files between computers.

Storage manufacturers have cottoned onto this fact by releasing a slew of external solutions with SSDs rather than mechanical hard disks providing the storage capacity. Advancements in interface speed on both ends combine to offer blistering performance rivalling quality internal SSDs.