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It's more expensive than many of our favorite USB 3.2 Gen 2 SSDs, but if you're a Mac user looking for a rugged external drive, the SanDisk Professional G-Drive SSD is a standout choice.

Sizzling fast yet thin enough (even with its heatsink on) to fit a laptop or PlayStation 5, ADATA's XPG Gammix S70 Blade is a killer internal SSD for gaming.

What the tiny Kingston XS2000 Portable SSD lacks in size, it makes up for in speed and durability. This external drive is a top choice if you travel and work with large files.

The MSI Spatium M480 HS lives up to its high sequential speed ratings in our testing, and its aluminum heatsink is a great addition for rigs in which it will fit. The drive is on the pricey side, however.

To test transfer speeds, we used an Asus ROG Strix Arion M.2 enclosure ($57 on Amazon)Remove non-product link with a WD Black NVMe SSD installed, and used the Crystal Disk Mark 8.0 benchmark to measure throughput using queue depth of 8, and a single thread. The Arion is rated at USB 3.2 Gen 2 or 10Gbps, which is double that of the expensive cable’s rating of USB 3.2 Gen 1, or 5Gbps. The dirt-cheap cable performed right where we expected it to, at a painfully slow USB 2.0 480Mbps. That’s a 43MBps read speed, which is what you expect of all cheap cables without the additional wires and req...