Crucial External SSDs
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Keep more of what you love with Crucial SSDs
Never leave your favorite files, movies, games, photos or backups behind again. Crucial External SSDs give you up to 4TB of extra storage with blazing speeds up to 2,100MB/s.
So, whether you’re downloading videos for off-line travel, organizing family photos, collaborating with classmates, or heading off on your next great adventure, our external SSDs are ready to go wherever you do.
Additional resources
What is a portable SSD?
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Crucial breaks down everything you need to know about external SSDs – how they work, what they're used for, and how to get the fastest speeds out of yours.
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Ditch that old hard drive and upgrade to a new portable SSD! Discover the best SSDs for photography, photo editing, and storing photos.
How to Choose the Best External SSD for Gaming
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Investing in an external SSD for gaming can hugely optimize your experience. Find the best external SSD to suit your needs for PC, Xbox and PS5, at Crucial.
- Up to 6.5ft/2 m for the Crucial X6, and up to 7.5ft/2.2 m for the Crucial X8 without impact to data on drive on a carpeted floor.
- MB/s speed measured as maximum sequential performance of device as measured by Crucial on a high-performance desktop computer with Crystal Disk Mark (version 6.0.2 for x64). Your performance may vary. Comparative speed claims measured as maximum sequential performance of similarly situated portable SSDs, mainstream portable HDDs and mainstream USB flash drives from vertically-integrated manufacturers selling under their own brands as of June 2019.
- Based on average photo size of 6MB, video at 4K/60fps in H246 format at 24GB/hr, and average music file at 4MB each.
- Sequential read speed of 1050MB/s specific to Crucial’s portable X8 drive.