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Micron's Crucial T500 is among the best full-featured PCIe 4.0 internal solid-state drives you can buy for building or upgrading a high-end PC.

The competitively priced Kingston XS1000 external SSD is tiny and still manages to offer solid performance, but without ruggedization or hardware-based encryption, it's not quite the perfect travel companion.

The Addlink AddGame A93 is a high-performance, inexpensive internal M.2 SSD that's great for gamers (or anyone else) upgrading or building a new PC on a budget.

The Samsung Portable SSD T9 achieves blazing throughput speeds when connected to a compatible PC, making it a go-to external SSD for content creators.

The Crucial X9 Pro is a tiny, near-perfect external SSD with a sturdy, ruggedized frame, hardware-based encryption, a long warranty, and up to 4TB of capacity.

The Crucial X10 Pro external SSD is a go-anywhere data carrier, with ruggedness cred, 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption, and all the speed most users will need.

Although the ADATA Legend 970 internal SSD lacks the absolute fastest raw throughput speed we've seen, this PCI Express 5.0 drive's above-par benchmark results and active cooler make it a force to be reckoned with.

The Lexar NM790 internal SSD provides good value, notching above-par benchmark results and coming in at capacities up to 4TB, making it worth considering for a cost-effective storage upgrade.

The Samsung SSD 990 Pro equipped with a heatsink has top-notch performance in most areas except for gaming, making it an excellent internal SSD for general-purpose computing.

The Beetle X31, SK Hynix's first portable SSD, is a tiny, eye-catching drive with USB 3.2 Gen 2 speed. It's pricey, and capacity-capped at 1TB, but it has undeniable appeal as is.