Best Hard Drive Settings And Pc Plus Another Perk

You may opt-out by clicking here Edit Story Oct 22, 2019, 10:52am EDT The Best External SSDs for Mac TJ McCue Senior Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.

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I have scoured multiple sites to try and find reliable, bullet-proof, Mac OS-friendly solid-state drives (SSD).

It doesnt come cheap, but you can get the 500GB model for about 220.

It is one of the fastest SSDs on the market today, with read and write performance levels of up to 2,800MBs and 2,300MBs, respectively.

I like the square shape and rugged case that is built to military-grade standards.

Although very few people want to test whether a drive will actually survive a 2-meter drop, this one looks up to the task.

Im sure there are some YouTubers who have done drop tests if you want to search.

These guys are arguably the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the hard drive marketplace.

Best Hard Drive Settings And Pc Plus Another Perk

At 90, this 500GB solid-state drive comes with the usual three-year warranty, plus another perk: two months of a cloud-based Adobe CC photography plan.

So Ill leave it to you to decide how much you want to pay for the same device.

LaCie is made by Seagate, so it is reputable brand and, clearly, Apple trusts it enough to list it on its own site.

Usually, the opposite is in the specs and Mac users have extra steps to take, so I found this brand to be worth inclusion.

At 250 for 1TB, it is a lightning-fast SSD with data transfer speeds of up to 950MB per second.

For 110, you get a tough 500GB SSD with an exceptional five-year warranty.

The newer NVMe drives (as compared to more common SATA drives) are faster than nearly any other solid-state drive at 10GB per second.

That makes them run a bit hotter than other drives (thus the full aluminum case).

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