I need reasonably fast external storage for my Mac Studio and am sort of new to this as before I had all my drives internally in an old Mac Pro (6 drives in total...).
For now I do not want to go with the most expensive options due to budget concerns and I also do not want to "build" it myself (i.e. put an NVMe drive in an enclosure). The reason is simply that I had some bad experiences with drive-enclosure compatibility and reliability issues lately. (My Sabrent enclosure seems to have unpredictable issues with some SSDs.)
So for now, I am looking for a reasonably fast, reasonably affordable pre-build solution.
I started looking at portable SSDs like the Samsung T7 Shield. They seem quite well-liked and rather fast.
But there is one thing that bothers me: These are clearly meant to be portable drives. Having them sit on my desk as permanent desktop storage seems almost "wrong"...
This might be silly, but am I missing something here? Do non-portable external SSDs even really exist?
For now I do not want to go with the most expensive options due to budget concerns and I also do not want to "build" it myself (i.e. put an NVMe drive in an enclosure). The reason is simply that I had some bad experiences with drive-enclosure compatibility and reliability issues lately. (My Sabrent enclosure seems to have unpredictable issues with some SSDs.)
So for now, I am looking for a reasonably fast, reasonably affordable pre-build solution.
I started looking at portable SSDs like the Samsung T7 Shield. They seem quite well-liked and rather fast.
But there is one thing that bothers me: These are clearly meant to be portable drives. Having them sit on my desk as permanent desktop storage seems almost "wrong"...
This might be silly, but am I missing something here? Do non-portable external SSDs even really exist?