benchmarksutra Portable Drive Score: How We Rate Portable SSDs and External Hard Drives
Summary

How benchmarksutra rates portable ssds and external hard drives: maker-stated specs and Indian prices only, nothing guessed.

Quick Verdict

The benchmarksutra Portable Drive Score rates 11 portable ssds and external hard drives sold in India. Every spec comes from the maker's own product page, and every price from an Indian retailer's listing. We never use test results from other sites, and we never fill a gap with a guess.

Researched, not hands-on tested. Scores use only the specifications on each maker's own product page (checked 15 November 2026) and prices at Indian retailers (checked 15 November 2026). We did not test these portable ssds and external hard drives ourselves. How the benchmarksutra Portable Drive Score works.

What we rate

  • Stated read speed. Top read speed the maker states: 400 MB/s rates 0, 2,000 MB/s rates 100. Real speeds depend on your port and cable.

  • USB interface. USB link the maker states: USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps) rates 100, Gen 2 (10 Gbps) 60, Gen 1 (5 Gbps) 30.

  • Water and dust rating. IP rating the maker states: IP65 or better rates 100.

  • Drop rating. Drop height the maker states: 3 metres rates 100, 2 metres 67.

  • Warranty. Limited warranty the maker states: 5 years rates 100, 3 years 60, 2 years 40, 1 year 20.

  • Hardware encryption. Hardware encryption with password protection, where the maker claims it for that drive.

  • Price. Lowest in-stock price at our partner stores, against the cheapest drive in the same group.

Buyer profiles

pssd comparison chart by benchmarksutra

What we checked

We read each maker's own product page for read speed, USB interface, IP rating, drop rating, warranty and hardware encryption. Prices and buy links come from our partner stores (MD Computers, Computech and Vedant Computers), in-stock listings only, cheapest first. Where a maker page does not state a rated item, that row scores zero; we never guess. A row that no drive in a group states at all, such as read speed for hard drives, is left out for that group.

Two groups

We compare 1 TB portable SSDs with each other and 2 TB portable hard drives with each other, so a price score only ever compares like with like.

What we do not rate

Real copy speeds, sustained speed after the cache fills, heat and noise need lab tests. We do not run them and we do not use other sites' results. Kingston drives are listed but not ranked because Kingston's pages showed our browser a bot check.

Price vs score

Portable SSDs and External Hard Drives price in India vs benchmarksutra Portable Drive Score

What the score does not measure

  • Real copy speeds and sustained writes.

  • Heat under long transfers.

  • Hard drive spin speed and noise.

What we left out, and why

Reason

Products

Kingston's product page showed a bot-check page to our browser, so we could not read its specs. We did not get around it.

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Prices change frequently. The prices on this page were correct when we wrote and checked it, but they may have changed by the time you read this. Check the current price on the retailer's page before you buy.

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