Portable SSD

[henry hoov3r]

I’m going away next month and looking up some additional storage I’ll probably be shooting a decent amount of video so i was thinking of 2tb portable ssd am i better off getting an M2 drive and an enclosure? Or something like this.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/crucial-2tb-x9-portable-solid-state-drive-sto-cru-01100.html

 

[And]

Depends on the saving I guess. I use Samsung T7s (1Tb) I picked up when on sale.

 

[JohnStewart]

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.

 

[GMac11]

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.

 

[henry hoov3r]

Thanks for the replies,looking around there is a samsung t7 2tb for £120 that looks decent value to me.