Eminently portable and fast. Having a decent amount of external storage is becoming easier as capacities increase over time. Remember when the ubiquitous USB stick cracked the 1GB barrier - if not, you are probably way younger than me - but now it's easily possible to go beyond 1TB of speedy storage connected to your computer via USB3.0/3.1.

For those who want their precious data to be protected in both an encryption and ruggerdised sense, industry giant SanDisk has been steadily building up its Extreme range over time. With respect to the Extreme 500 portable SSD range, the company offers capacities ranging from 120GB to 1GB, all presented in the same ruggerdised form factor and housing the firm's own TLC NAND chips.