Best Portable SSDs for Mac & iPad (2023)! Samsung, LaCie, CalDigit, & More!

THIS GUY DID NOT TEST IT ON THE IPAD AS HE DIDNT KNOW THAT THAT SANDISK ONLY REACH 500 SPEED NOT

what a bunch of nonsense this video is..no benchmarks, nothing..completely useless!

I can use my 2T extreme on my iPad Pro with no issues

I don’t trust this channel for misinformation.

It feels more for selling & affiliate than what people need

I Hope they review their value quality rather than deleting my comment

Hello so I am not a rich person and I can/want to buy any price ssd I just want to know that I am thinking to buy a LaCie and I don’t know if I can get it or not because I want to put an iPad air2 photos to the ssd and I want it to copy the exact same data (where I took the photo when and ipad ) so whole should I choose ? Please help ASP

Hi there ,

Could u please guide what ssd should i buy for my iPad Air 4 ?

What camera do you use? Feel so dizzy when you shake those ssds in front of the camera

Will these be ok for iPhone too?

I love the Sandisk ssd. I bought 4 on sale for $60 each. I use them and love them but when I connect one (properly reformatted) to my iPad Air 5 and it gets uncontrollably hot.

Need some help. I do photo editing and am about to upgrade from my old, old Mac Pro to the new Mac Studio M2 Max and need external drives (SSDs)...one for storing my photos and the other for backup. I would like two 8TB drives....what would you recommend? Thanks.

the T5 doesnt work with my ipad M2 pro

What’s the cheapest? Don’t care that much about the speed lol

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Good info 👍
What about an internal SSD within an enclosure?

I prefer Crucial X8.

Do you have any tips for holding your iPad in your hands while using an SSD? With the cable sticking out of the side it’s really uncomfortable.

I have a Sandisk Extreme portable v2 SSD and I use it for video editing but I find that it gets WAY TOO Hot when editing 4k video...this cannot be normal...is the Samsung T7 cooler? is it as fast as the Sandisk Portable (Not the pro version). The sandisk's temperature while ediitng video worries me...thanks

What is all this drop protection crap?! Are you really that clumsy?!

DON’T buy the Sandisk Extreme SSD if it’s for an IPad. It doesn’t work with my IPad Air 4. Plus Sandisk says that it’s not made/compatible for iPads. Just Pc/computer . This guy should’ve clarified that.

Useless review. No technical test or evaluation, just his rant, and blah, blah, blah. Essentially, he knows nothing about SSD technology. Conclusion: the dude is a fraud.

I currently have a western digital external hard drive with a little over 2TB of music. It runs very slow with my MacBook Pro. I'm thinking it's because of the current drive I use. Would an SSD drive work faster and better specifically with Apple Music. FYI, I have no interest in streaming services and cloud services don't cut it for me. Thank you for any advice!

Others have said SanDisk and Samsung and maybe others get very hot & drain battery when used on iPad Pro, gave you experienced these sort of problems on these drives?

I love the underwater SSD...

How about the OWC Envoy Pro FX?

S for SanDisk, S for Steve Vai..

Would you go for the SanDisk Portable SSD or Crucial X6 for a PS5?

Can I backup my iPad music to the Sandisk SSD…

so what one would you say is the best for video editng?

I thought you were going to tell us which one is better for iPad and Mac separately🥹🥹🥹

Which SSD doesn't get warm? I have tried Samsung T7, G-Drive and they got hot a lot.

I bought wd p50 20gbps 8GB drive, opened it and removed its stock SN750 drive, chucked sn770 2TB. Boom, 2TB 20Gbps drive with turbo write at full speed at around 500GB+.
Then chucked the sn750 is a cheap orico enclosure..

samsung is best

I have samsung t5 reliable

I run a VM off a 500gb Samsung T7.. about a year in and i've had zero problems!

I flick files between Mac and PC all the time. Use M.2 drive with external case. Super fast

Have the T7 with the finger print and it’s the best SSD I’ve ever had. Super fast and a very small form factor so it easily fiets I my bag.

Great video. In the market to upgrade my storage to SSD and this was helpful. BTW, in your recommendations you called the Sandisk a Samsung Extreme Portable.

Keep making informative videos like this.

Samsung T7 is just the best out there

Wish you focused on thunderbolt drives too. Just a bunch of usbc… meh

You are not getting 1000MB read or write on the T7 on a machine with a m1 inside more like + 500 in my testing. Still fast enough for my needs.

Given the speeds, for those who do demanding video editing, it may be best to get the biggest possible internal SSD since the only external SSDs that match the internal speed may be about as expensive as the BTO internal SSDs.

Andrew, i got the Samsung T7 , 1TB a week back and its lightning fast. Dont have any lags in file reading or writing and very tiny to carry .
Happy with the investment even though its expensive, worth the money spent.

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