SSD vs HDD: What's the difference between flash storage and traditional hard drives.For editing movies and photos on an external drive, nothing really gets the job done like an SSD. They're also more likely to last you a long time because there are no moving parts. SSD (solid-state) drives like these are preferable to HDD (more traditional style hard-drives) with the former being a bit more expensive, but also faster, smaller and more portable.

And most of the portable options are small enough to go in a pocket. Thankfully, there's a lot of them around. (Pocket-lint) - With more laptops and devices being equipped with flash memory, that often means it becomes too expensive to get a good amount of storage built-in.Īnd, with so many more of us travelling around for work, working from home or needing to use more than one machine, it's more important than ever to have an external drive of sorts.