I'm thinking of getting a portable SSD to take out for imaging if I can get a used laptop with USB-3 eventually). I would only buy Samsung, no particular reason I'm just somewhat fussy with drives and branding, over the 30+ years I've been building and repairing computers I've learnt there is a difference. Though, I usually don't play with SSD drives but did just put an M2-m in my sons recent computer build because it had a port on the motherboard for one, a 1TB Samsung. For his primary drive I bought a 4TB Ironwolf from Seagate. The Barracuda series doesn't have the best platter use system (SMR vs CMR -
Shingle magnetic recording--
Conventional magnetic recording, the latter is what's used in server gear for a good reason but costs more) whereas the Ironwolf for the server equipment has the better system. $159 for a 4TB server hard drive new is EXTREMELY cheap.
https://www.howtogeek.com/803276/cmr...he-difference/
I know, this has nothing to do with SSD drives but many people still use conventional platter drives within their systems.