best portable external hard drive for macbook pro

I put hard drives in it and an SSD in one bay, designated for scratch.

My Mac has Thunderbolt 3, but to solve the similar problem, I decided the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Quad, plugged in through USB 3, would be fast enough. USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5Gb/s), supported by the ports on your Mac Pro, is fast enough for the speed of a common SATA SSD. It may be an overkill, but I won't be bothered for the next 3 years at least and it's future proof, since I'll be able to use it if/when I buy a new MP.īut you're not finding many options because you're only considering Thunderbolt, right? Because I'm not sure Thunderbolt is a necessary expense to solve this problem. Furthermore, it has a 3 year warranty, it's portable, the SSDs are upgradeable and it doesn't have a fan. You can use each one separately, or in a RAID array, which is what I'm going to do. It's compatible with the trashcan and also has four 250GB SSDs preinstalled. That's about £650 including the cost of the Apple adapter. However, after reading countless posts, articles and product reviews, I decided to go for an OWC Thunderblade 1TB. That's about £600, including the cost of four 250GB SSDs and the Apple TB3>TB2 adapter.

I'd have up to 4 SSDs and it's compatible with TB2. My second option was to buy an OWC Express 4M2. That's just over £400 and I'd have one SSD.

My first option was to buy a Samsung X5, connect it to a Thunderbolt 3 dock and use an Apple adapter to connect the TB3 dock to the trashcan. There aren't many options that are compatible with the MP 6.1.

Best portable external hard drive for macbook pro