They are small, robust and fast: SSD hard drives offer additional storage space for documents, photos and other data. We had 40 external SSD hard drives tested. 27 were awarded the test quality rating of Good. But it's worth taking a look at the details: We discovered significant differences in price and maximum achievable speed...

They are small, robust and fast: SSD hard drives offer additional storage space for documents, photos and other data. We had 40 external SSD hard drives tested. 27 were awarded the test quality rating of Good. But it's worth taking a look at the details: We discovered significant differences in price and maximum achievable speed...

Fast SSDs have become affordable. For most users, SSDs with USB 3.2 Gen2 and 1 or 2 TB of storage space are the best choice. Here, the SK Hynix Beetle X31 Portable (1 TB, 100 euros) and the Emtec X210 (2 TB, 140 euros) were the best in the test. The Kingston XS1000 (80 euros) was the price-performance winner among the 1 TB models...

This external SSD is not only handy, but also powerful - especially when it comes to reading tasks. Here, in theory and practice, it almost exhausts what is realistically achievable for the USB-C port in the USB 3.2 Gen2x2 version. Thanks to the rubber coating and password protection via software, the data is doubly secure...

The Transcend SSD ESD380C comes in an olive green rubber cover that gives the SSD a military look. The protection is not necessary, because an SSD does not contain any moving parts. If you pull it off, a rather unattractive plastic casing is revealed underneath. The benchmarks leave a somewhat ambivalent impression: on the one hand, the SSD is very slow with only 133 MByte/s when writing completely,...