Portable SSD

I opted for an enclosure as I had a 1Tb gen 4 drive I could use from a laptop. The USB4/Thunderbolt4 enclosure was both cheaper than a portable drive of the same size, but also gave faster transfer speeds, particularly sustained write speed.
 
The higher the capacity the more you'll save by going M2 + Enclosure. I picked up a 4tb M2 and Ugreen enclosure last Black Friday for a combined cost of around £160-170 IIRC. A comparable external SSD would have been well over £100 dearer, if not more.
If you're looking for something smaller like 500gb or 1tb then for all the savings you'd make (if any) you'd be as well just buying a dedicated external drive.

Having typed all that I just see you were looking for 2tb - I'll leave what I wrote though in case it's of use to anyone else.

At 2tb then it gets even muddier. A quick browse suggests a 2tb M2 can be got for around £100 - adding an enclosure at you're looking at around £120 all in.
Conversely, I can see SanDisk drives for £135ish.

I will caveat all this by stating I'm not comparing drive speeds etc - if those figures are important then that will of course have a bearing on price.
 
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GMac11 said:
The higher the capacity the more you'll save by going M2 + Enclosure. I picked up a 4tb M2 and Ugreen enclosure last Black Friday for a combined cost of around £160-170 IIRC. A comparable external SSD would have been well over £100 dearer, if not more.
If you're looking for something smaller like 500gb or 1tb then for all the savings you'd make (if any) you'd be as well just buying a dedicated external drive.

Having typed all that I just see you were looking for 2tb - I'll leave what I wrote though in case it's of use to anyone else.

At 2tb then it gets even muddier. A quick browse suggests a 2tb M2 can be got for around £100 - adding an enclosure at you're looking at around £120 all in.
Conversely, I can see SanDisk drives for £135ish.

I will caveat all this by stating I'm not comparing drive speeds etc - if those figures are important then that will of course have a bearing on price.
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Hey,

Would you mind posting the model numbers of the enclosure + M.2 drive you used to get it for ~£170? I'm struggling to find anything that comes close to that price.

Thanks :)
 
thewanted said:
Hey,

Would you mind posting the model numbers of the enclosure + M.2 drive you used to get it for ~£170? I'm struggling to find anything that comes close to that price.

Thanks :)
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The drive itself is the Crucial P3 4TB M.2 3500MB/s - CT4000P3SSD801. I have no idea where it stacks up in the grand scheme of things but I paid £159 for it and I see it’s currently £200.
The enclosure was the UGREEN M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure, USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps. I paid £15.99 and see it is currently on sale at £14.99.
 
GMac11 said:
The drive itself is the Crucial P3 4TB M.2 3500MB/s - CT4000P3SSD801. I have no idea where it stacks up in the grand scheme of things but I paid £159 for it and I see it’s currently £200.
The enclosure was the UGREEN M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure, USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps. I paid £15.99 and see it is currently on sale at £14.99.
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Thanks very much!

I've been out of the loop for ages, but it does feel like SSDs are quite expensive at the moment.
 
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