ZDNET's key takeaways The Sharge SSD has thin and sleek design that not only looks good but also dissipates heat really well.
It takes up to 4TB of storage.
You do have to deal with some tiny fasteners, as it's a compact SSD. $39 at Amazon
Do you need more storage for your iPhone, MacBook, or pretty much any device with a USB-C port? Do you need something faster than a flash drive? A portable SSD enclosure is the way to go.
While most SSD enclosures are rather chunky, accessory maker Sharge has come out with what it claims is the world's thinnest one -- and at less than a quarter of an inch thick, the Disk Plus is a sleek, stylish way to add extra storage to any device.
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The Disk Plus is CNC machined from aluminum alloy and has the thickness of three coins and the size of a credit card holder -- it measures 93 x 60 x 6mm/3.66 x 2.36 x 0.24 inches.
But don't let the small size fool you—this enclosure packs a punch. It supports M.2 NVMe drives up to 4TB in a range of form factors -- 2280, 2242, and 2230 -- and speeds up to 10Gbps. That's enough to move a 4K movie in 20 seconds.
M.2 drives generate quite a bit of heat in use, but the enclosure does an excellent job of dissipating it from what I've seen. But there's more.
The enclosure has a built-in holder for a thin ribbon USB-C cable, and there are two USB-C ports on the enclosure. Why two? Because it supports up to 100W power pass-through, so you can connect a power supply to one of the ports, and the device -- MacBook, iPhone 15/16, Steam Deck, iPad, Google Pixel, or pretty much anything that has a USB-C port -- to the other, and that can get both data and power!
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