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Many of us rely on external hard drives for our storage needs, often as a cheaper data storage medium. We use them with our laptops and desktops to back up data or transfer files between devices.

A portable SSD and an external hard drive are both widely used forms of external storage, but they solve different problems depending on how files are handled in daily use. In this portable storage ...