This 1TB Samsung T9 portable SSD is £48 off and delivers transfer speeds of up to a blistering 2,000MB/s — and it's cheaper at Amazon than anywhere else right now
THE SO WHAT
High-speed 2,000MB/s portable SSDs like the T9 dropping in price make sneaker-netting large datasets and model artifacts more practical for small teams. If your data workflows are bottlenecked on shared network storage, a few of these drives may be the cheapest short-term relief you can buy.
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