
For that, you really need an SSD.Īlthough the majority of external SSD’s are USB drives, the fastest external SSD’s currently available use Thunderbolt 3 for read and write speeds several times several times faster than USB, often even approaching the performance of internal PCIe drives. While an external hard drive may be sufficient for storing larger files, the speed is just too slow for working with gigabytes of photos, or for video editing, especially at higher resolutions. Video and photo files can very quickly fill the limited internal SSD storage of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, making an external drive of some description an essential purchase.

Online content production requires a lot of storage.

Photo Credit: Glyph Production Technologies
