India, March 31 -- Rising cloud storage subscription costs? PC running out of disk space? Easily accessing locally saved data? Lot of storage, for a one-time monetary outlay? There is a lot that's in the favour of any arguments for physical, external solid state drives (SSDs; or even an older tech, that is a hard drive) as a must-have for saving files, keeping backups and in general, a storage point for a rapidly swelling collection of photos and videos from our smartphones (edited files too, if you're into that sort of thing).

Chances are you'd find conventional wisdom lands you with SanDisk's brilliantly quick Extreme Portable SSD (market prices start around Rs.9,299), a Seagate OneTouch (around Rs.8,500 onwards), or a Samsung T7 Shiel...