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The Samsung T7 is aimed at content creators who travel and, for whatever reason, might end up a little wet or with a bit of dirt on their person.

But loading games like Horizon Zero Dawn from the SSD didn't present any issues, nor did I see any dips in performance after playing for about an hour. I mostly used it to keep the games I use for benchmarking laptops and PCs. Great if you're looking for a nondescript way to expand your storage.

The T7 Shield is compatible with game consoles, too. That's a more common day-to-day scenario than editing videos in the desert, as some of these rugged drives’ marketing materials would have you think. To test it, I left the SSD on my patio in the rain for a couple of hours since absent-mindedly leaving things outside feels more like a real-world situation I’d end up in. Water resistant isn’t the same as waterproof, so if it gets dropped into a toilet, you’re running a 50/50 shot of it working, depending on how long it was submerged. It’s rated to IP65 durability classifying it as dustproof and water resistant. Grab one of these, and you'll never have to worry if you or Call of Duty update again. Whether you're looking to bolster your gaming desktop PC's storage or find more space for your gaming laptop (opens in new tab), you'll find the best external HDDs below. We've benchmarked a bunch of external hard drives, trying to narrow them down to the best of the best.

For a serious chunk of storage space, it'll be best to go the spinning plater route-need 8TB of portable storage because you work with big video files? Knock yourself out because there are tons of them at great prices. Beyond 1TB, an HDD isn't completely redundant. SSD (opens in new tab) comparison for the key differences. NVMe SSDs inside your PC is up to 10x faster than HDDs but are more expensive-check out our HDD vs.

If speed is an absolute priority over storage capacity, I'd recommend picking up one of the best external SSDs (opens in new tab) for the straight throughput of smaller drives (up to 1TB). But the best external drive balances speed and capacity, and SSDs offer just that. An external hard drive with spinning platters (rather than the solid-state memory chips in SSDs) will still be cheaper and a good option if you're looking for massive external storage.