I genuinely have zero idea what the market is for giant portable drives which can’t read/write quickly but are more expensive than spinning rust. The nature of these portable drives is either you’re writing just a little data to them so you don’t need much storage, or you are writing a ton of data to them and want to probably run at TB3 speeds or better.
Main thing I can think of is game drive for consoles. Games load a lot faster from SSDs but you don’t need high sustained speed. Mostly read-only so QLC is fine.
I genuinely have zero idea what the market is for giant portable drives which can’t read/write quickly but are more expensive than spinning rust. The nature of these portable drives is either you’re writing just a little data to them so you don’t need much storage, or you are writing a ton of data to them and want to probably run at TB3 speeds or better.
The writes only drop off in larger transfers, in small/moderate transfers its still faster than a HDD. Plus, the standard immunity to sudden movement.
Main thing I can think of is game drive for consoles. Games load a lot faster from SSDs but you don’t need high sustained speed. Mostly read-only so QLC is fine.