Finally, I found a pocket-friendly SSD that's durable, transfers data quickly, and on sale

ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• The Crucial X10 portable SSD is disposable now, starting astatine $139 for the 1TB version.
• It's a ace tiny SSD thrust that volition spell anywhere, and the IP65 standing means that it tin motion disconnected rainfall and dirt.
• It's not precisely cheap, arsenic the durability comes with a cost.

For a constricted time, the Crucial X10 SSD is $58 disconnected its regular price, bringing it down to conscionable $82 (from $139) connected Amazon.

SSDs (solid authorities drives) are the cleanable portable retention solution, acold amended than older HDDs (hard disk drives), which person spinning disks that are susceptible to vibration and shock. 

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But the downside to galore portable SSDs is that they can't header with adjacent a small spot of h2o oregon dust. That means that they similar an air-conditioned bureau overmuch much than a dusty motortruck oregon a bedewed tent. The much I'm progressive successful outdoor photography and videography with drones, the much I request portable retention that doesn't caput getting bedewed and dirty.

Crucial has a caller thrust that's up to the job, and it comes successful aggregate retention amounts: the X10.

Let's commencement with the basics. The X10 is an SSD with capacities ranging from 1TB to 8TB and connects via USB-C. It offers sequential work speeds up to 2,100 MB/s and sequential constitute speeds up to 2,100 MB/s (my investigating confirms this, easy achieving scores wrong 10 percent of this figure), doubly what its predecessor, the X9, was susceptible of hitting.

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The thrust is compatible with Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS and iPadOS, Linux, and adjacent games consoles similar the PS4, PS5, and Xbox. It's pre-formatted successful exFAT for wide compatibility, but it tin beryllium reformatted to NTFS oregon APFS if needed. 

Everything is encased successful a matte bluish polymer enclosure measuring conscionable 65 by 50 mm and 10 mm thick. The full thrust weighs conscionable 32 grams.

There's adjacent a useful lanyard spread to support the thrust adjacent to manus (this is truthful tiny you could connect it to a keyring). 

Oh, and did I notation that the enclosure is IP65 rated for particulate and h2o absorption and driblet resistant up to 9.8 feet (3 meters) onto a carpeted floor? While not rated for submersion, it's perfectly blessed retired successful mist, rain, and fog. 

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This IP standing and rugged durability makes the X10 large for outdoor use, arsenic it won't shy distant from a small vulnerability to the elements. 

ZDNET's buying advice

I person to admit that I emotion the small Crucial X10 drive. It's tiny, yet durable capable to grip being thrown astir successful a backpack oregon utilized successful a structure to marque backups of the contented changeable during the day.

The thrust besides comes successful a wide scope of sizes, from 1TB each the mode to 8TB, truthful you tin take the capableness that you request and not overpay. Prices scope from $140 to $780, and the drives travel with a 15 cm USB-C to USB-C cablegram and 3 months of Mylio Photos+, and 1 period of Adobe Acrobat Pro and Acronis True Image erstwhile you registry the drive.