Nov 09, 2020 ·  HP's Portable SSD P500 is an attractive, compact external SSD with a rugged aluminum body. It’s a good basic choice for everyday use, but don’t expect anything like cutting-edge speeds. 

Jun 11, 2020 ·  The P500 is a very good looking portable SSD indeed; it reminded us of the Samsung Portable SSD T5 with its all-metal brushed silver shell and is available in blue and red colours as well. 

Jul 09, 2020 ·  Shortly after our review of the HP P700 went live, we were back in contact with HP talking about its next release, the updated P500 Portable SSD. HP aims this solution at the entry-level, users... 

We review the HP Portable P500 1TB Portable SSD. This portable storage USB3 based SSD is able to hit plenty fast enough read and write speeds, and the 1 TB model does that at a price of 99 USD, not... 

May 26, 2020 ·  HP P700 Portable SSD Review: Clever Cable Management HP’s P700 portable USB 3.2 Gen 2 SSD aims to speed up your on the go workflow By Sean Webster 26 May 2020 Comments (3) 

The HP P700 is the fastest portable SSD we've ever tested. Under the hood, the P700 uses an SMI SM2263 controller, Micron 3D TLC, and DRAM cache, which is rare on portable SSDs. With $175 for the reviewed 1 TB version, pricing is reasonable, too. 

Western Digital Corp.

This is the best portable storage WD has had to date.

WD My Passport SSD

WD My Passport SSD review: Almost everything you'd want in a portable drive

WD My Passport SSD review

The Good: The My Passport SSD is rugged, light and super compact. The drive uses USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C to deliver fast performance. It works with both Windows and MacOS right out of the box and features strong encryption to protect data in case of loss or theft. The Bad: The drive's capacity caps at just 1TB. It's a fingerprint magnet. The Bottom Line: The My Passport SSD is an excellent portable drive for those needing to securely carry data on the go. The WD Passport SSD is arguably the best in the WD's popular My Passport family of portable drives. The drive is fast, rugged, versatile and features strong encryption as an option. The fact that it works with both Windows and MacOS right out of the box doesn't hurt, either.At the current street price of $100, $180 and $360 for 256GB, 512GB and 1TB, respectively, the My Passport SSD has enough to give the Samsung SSD T3 or the Glyph Atom a good run for their money (those prices respectively convert to £80, £140 and £280 for the UK and AU$130, AU$240 and AU$480 for Australia). It's an excellent storage device for anyone who needs something super compact yet very fast.Compact and rugged design, strong encryptionHousing a solid-state drive (SSD) on the inside, the new My Passport SSD bucks the trend of WD's My Passport drives. Up to now, all previous drives in WD's My Passport family are based on regular hard drives.Using solid-state storage allows the new My Passport to be WD's most compact portable drive yet. Measuring just 3.5 by 1.8 by 0.39 inches (90 by 45 by 10 millimeters), the new drive looks like a big domino piece. It's also so light, possibly lighter than the included USB-C cable.The My Passport SSD is rugged, and slated to survive 6.5-foot drops with a shock resistance of up to 1,500 g-force. I tried dropping it many times on a carpet floor from that height and it worked just fine afterwards. The drive also include 256-bit AES hardware encryption -- the strongest commercial encryption to date -- that you can optionally turned on using WD Security software (available for both Windows and MacOS). Once this feature is turned on, nobody who doesn't know the password can access the data it contains.

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The My Passport SSD is an excellent portable drive for those needing to securely carry data on the go.

Editor Dong Ngo explains why the tiny My Passport SSD portable drive from WD is a huge deal.

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