Ultimate guide on how to use an external SSD as a working drive on macOS Sequoia ...

For many, the simplest solution is to grab some external storage, whether that’s a USB flash drive or — for data-heavy operations — an external drive.

If you're upgrading your SSD, you can turn your old one into a fully functioning external storage drive for your laptop, tablet, or other devices.

Most inexpensive external drives use a flavor of USB 3 to connect over USB-C and rely on the slower SATA format, which coupled with an SSD is about 10 times faster than a hard disk drive.