External SSDs tend to be anonymous little boxes that don’t draw attention to themselves, adorned only with a USB port, a maker’s logo and a power LED if you’re lucky. This model from Seagate is officially licensed for Sony’s PlayStation games console, which surely makes it a shoo-in for our Best SSDs for PS5 list, and comes with a matching light bar that glows blue while you’re using it. Whether this is a good idea or not is a matter of taste, but there's no denying the rather good data transfer performance that this little drive is capable of.

Key specs

Capacity: 2TB or 5TB

Interface: USB 3.2 Gen 2

Dimensions: 20 x 76 x 114mm

Weight: 249g

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PCMark 10Row 0 - Cell 1

Bandwidth214MB/s

Average access time111µs

CrystalDiscMarkRow 3 - Cell 1

Read1021.48Mb/s

Write1057.42Mb/s