Western Digital has today announced a new portable SSD that is so fast it’ll knock your socks off. With transfer speeds of up to 1050MB/s thanks to its USB 3.2 Gen-2 connection, it’s easy to see where this drive is aimed.

Having storage that’s always accessible is often left to things like cloud storage, but even that has its problems. Unless you’ve unlimited data on the move, and fast data at that, cloud storage can be as much of a hindrance as a help. But the skyBOX SSD drive might have the answer by bringing the storage with you, all in a handy, super small WiFi-connected box.

We recently told you about a deal on a 512GB NVMe Thunderbolt 3 SSD that seemed almost too good to be true, but it really was. It was so good that I reached out to the maker of the SSD – Plugable – and asked if they would send one to me for review. They said yes, and I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks to see how it fares. All you need to know is this – it’s a great budget option for those who need external drives to be quick.

The new HybridDrive gadget currently vying for you attention on Indiegogo is looking to entice you into ditching the dongles that have become so popular over the last 18-months in favor of a one-size-fits-all accessory that offers extensive and storage all in one portable product.

Samsung has today announced a new entry into the T-series of portable SSDs that has been so popular in recent years. We already had the T3 and T5, with the new T7 Touch taking its place at the very tip of the lineup.

The hyper-popular Samsung T5 has received an update, although nothing inside the portable SSD has changed. Instead, Samsung has added two new colour options to the lineup with Rose Gold and Metallic Red joining the existing Deep Black and Alluring Blue colors that were already available.

Samsung’s X5 Thunderbolt 3 Portable SSD, the 500GB model, can be had for $299.99 right now, which is around a 25% discount on what you would normally expect to hand over for such a drive.

Amazon is offering multiple storage capacities of the Samsung T5 USB-C SSD at discounted rates of up to 33% off right now.

Seagate is entering the consumer SSD market with the announcement of a new drive called the BarraCuda, meant for use in desktop and notebook computers.

SSD capacities are continuing to grow and we now have a new king in that regard, with the world’s largest SSD now clocking in at an amazing 100TB. Here are the details.

A new report suggests the 2016 MacBook Pro could be the fastest computer on the planet, thanks largely to its PCIe SSD, which offers the fastest read/write speeds around.