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4 awesome things your external SSD could be doing

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Internal and external SSDs have been tumbling in price over the last few years .

They may be a little smaller, but USB sticks are far more expensive per GB .

One of my favorite things to do with an external drive is use it as a portable OS.

This is great if you're moving between PCs frequently, debugging issues on the fly or using other people's machines a lot.

USB sticks increasingly seem a thing of the past, but don't come close to competing on flexibility.

If you're a homelabber, an external drive can be a good way to move virtual machines.

Rosetta and QEMU can both help solve this, but expect a performance hit.