USB drives or flash drives are convenient, mostly because theyre compact and portable. They come in a range of storage capacities, even up to 2TB in some cases. But typically, in a head to head, solid state drives offer much faster speeds. If youre planning to do anything substantial like transferring large, high resolution video files, booting into an operating system like Windows from a portable disk, or even playing games off the drive, a solid state drive is the better option. But you can...

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