With bigger and faster drives releasing every year, it can be hard to keep up. Though they’re more expensive than external HDDs, external SSDs are faster, lighter, and less prone to corrupt when mishandled. While you shouldn’t expect the jaw-dropping speeds of internal M.2 NVMe SSDs, external SSDs are multitudes faster than disk drives, with some of the higher-end drives reaching speeds of up to 1,000MB/s or even 2,000MB/s. Solid-state drives (SSDs), however, are a better solution with blazing-fast read and write speeds. HDDs are also heavier, and they rely on a mechanical disk drive to read and write data, which makes them vulnerable to data corruption when dropped. While external hard disk drives, or HDDs, are a cheap solution with high storage capacities, they are infuriatingly slow. Thankfully, digital storage options continue to evolve and offer more capacity and faster speeds every year. For videographers who need to capture every moment, having a full memory card isn’t an option.
Improvements in camera technology have led to enormous files that can quickly fill up a memory card. Videographers can back up and secure their files anywhere with these fast, external SSDs.
