US5 Portable USB External SSD

Love it, worked great & properly sized

Fantastic for mobile and MacBook. Does heat up a bit when in use.

This thing is great, convenient and adds a lot of space. I also appreciate that the shape doesn’t protrude too much from my computer and it can even run fairly big games pretty well too.

I bought this SSD to store video footage shot from my Android phone while mounted to my hand held stabilizer. it's almost unimaginable that a tiny portable SSD like this could hold 2 TB of data and for it's ridiculously cheap price. The transfer rate is incredible, too, which also leaves me astounded. The only negative I can see is it doesn't have it's own hub, which would allow me to connect not just the SSD to my phone, but also my wireless microphone receiver. There is likely a standalone hub that will serve this purpose. So, if you're shooting at a 1020 bit rate X 60 fps then you're going to use about 15GB of data per hour of shooting. I'll let you do the math, but we're talking a ton of storage capacity that means you'll never run out while creating content. I believe it comes out to be about 133 hours of nonstop shooting. I've been tech savvy since the late 1988 when I got my first PC and these kinds of numbers are almost biblical in nature compared to early roots. Beam me up Scotty...

I used this small portable storage to offload some of my iphone 15 photos - but it should work well for any device with a USB-C port. If using with iphone you need to be familiar with the folder system and save the photos as files onto the storage, there's nothing to walk you through the process as it's purely external storage. The read and write speeds are quick and I find it's a good option for moving bigger video files from my phone to my laptop instead of using airdrop.