SanDisk’s G-Drive ArmorATD is a portable 2.5-inch hard drive that’s ruggedized for less-than careful use. Though it commands a premium over non-ruggedized drives, it’s still reasonably priced for what it offers, and its performance is as good as you can expect from a 2.5-inch hard drive. Overall, the G-Drive ArmorATD gets our recommendation for economical,

The latest SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE SSD is an ultra-durable portable drive under the newly established SanDisk Professional line, which is built to tough it out in the elements. Though rugged, the G-DRIVE is a relatively small storage device while offering decent transfer rates up to 1.05GB/s in sequential reads. This performance allows users to quickly

The Kingston XS2000 is a portable solid-state drive that connects via USB Type-C. Small enough to fit in your pocket, this drive demonstrated excellent performance in our testing, nearing Kingston’s 2,000MB/s read and write claims. It even carries a mild IP55 rating for water and dust protection and includes a rubberized sleeve.

Though portable solid-state drives are becoming more popular and can deliver excellent performance, they still can’t beat the portability and convenience of a USB flash drive. Kingston’s new DataTraveler Max pushes flash-drive performance limits with its USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface for a claimed 1,000MB/s read and 900MB/s write. Though the drive lacks encryption and

The OWC Envoy Pro SX is another in OWC’s lengthy line of portable NVMe M.2 SSDs. Due to its speedy interface (support for both Thunderbolt 3 and USB4), this bus-powered mobile drive is ideal for a range of different use cases, including media storage, general backups, and on-set editing. The Envoy Pro SX also can

The SecureData SecureDrive KP USB is a unique solution to keeping sensitive data safe. The main allure of this drive is hardware-based encryption. The drives contents will not appear in your operating system until you have unlocked the hardware encryption with the physical keypad. You can use the keypad to enter a user-defined PIN number

The SecureData SecureDrive KP is an external storage solution focused on keeping your data safe.  The main draw of this security-centric drive is a physical, embedded keypad, which ensures that data is protected until the correct user-generated PIN has been entered. Simply put, if the drive is connected to a computer while in locked mode,

The Apricorn Aegis Padlock SSD is the company’s latest high-security portable storage device. The device is sold as being super tough, compact, and SSD fast with the quoted speed being a maximum of 350MB/s. The SSD is ideal for those that need to transfer important files frequently and need another layer of security.

The OWC Envoy Pro Elektron is a small, portable NVMe SSD that is bus powered and leverages USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gb/s). It also boasts being crushproof and dustproof and is IP67 rated, which means it can be submerged for up to 30 minutes in 1 meter (3.3 feet) of water. Overall the drive does