Best Portable SSD for Mac mini M6 (2026)
Mac mini with M6 has Thunderbolt 4 on the back, up to 40 Gb/s. Mac mini with M5 Pro has Thunderbolt 5 there, up to 120 Gb/s. The front USB-C ports on both are USB 3 at 10 Gb/s.
Best External SSD for Mac Studio (2026)
Mac Studio with M5 Max or M5 Ultra has four Thunderbolt 5 ports on the back, up to 120 Gb/s. The OWC Express 4M2 Ultra lists 6,622 MB/s on Apple silicon with Thunderbolt 5.
Best Portable SSD for iPhone Duo (2026)
iPhone Duo’s USB-C port lists USB 3 at up to 10 Gb/s. The Samsung Portable SSD T7 is a USB 3.2 Gen 2 drive, up to 1,050 MB/s read and 1,000 MB/s write.
Best External SSD for Mac mini M4 (2026)
A desk drive for the 2024 Mac mini should bring its own power supply. The OWC Express 4M2 Ultra reaches up to 6,622 MB/s on Thunderbolt 5 and 3,200 MB/s on Thunderbolt 4.
Best Portable SSD for Mac mini M4 (2026)
On the 2024 Mac mini, the base M4 rear ports are Thunderbolt 4. The M4 Pro rear ports are Thunderbolt 5. The OWC Envoy Ultra’s peak over 6,000 MB/s is the Thunderbolt 5 row.
Best Portable SSD for an RTX Spark Laptop (2026)
The ProArt P16 H7607 has USB4 at 40 Gb/s. The OWC Envoy Ultra’s USB4 row is the one that matches that port. The Thunderbolt 5 peak does not.
Best Portable SSD for iPad Pro (2026)
The current iPad Pro, 11-inch and 13-inch with M5, has a Thunderbolt / USB 4 port: Thunderbolt 3 and USB 4 up to 40 Gb/s, plus USB 3 up to 10 Gb/s. It is not a Thunderbolt 5 port, so a drive’s 6,000 MB/s Thunderbolt 5 row does not transfer onto this tablet. The 11-inch…
Best Portable SSD for iPhone 15 Pro (2026)
iPhone 15 Pro’s USB-C port is USB 3, up to 10 Gb/s, and Apple’s footnote says that speed needs a USB 3 cable. The cable in the phone box is not that cable. Apple’s ProRes page lets iPhone 15 Pro models record ProRes straight to external storage: the drive must be exFAT, password protection is…
Best External SSD for PS5 (2026)
A PS5 USB extended-storage drive holds games. It does not launch PS5 games. Sony’s guide says PS5 games move to USB storage and must be copied back to console storage, or to an M.2 SSD, before they play. PS4 games can play from the USB drive. The drive has to be SuperSpeed USB at 5…