Orico K20 Mini 2TB, Portable SSDs Aren’t Quite As Bad As Internals

What A World!

2026 is a strange time, and a perfect example of that is Orico’s K20 Mini 2TB Magnetic Portable SSD which is less expensive than an internal SSD at the moment.  In a normal year you would pay a premium for portable storage but at $240 on Amazon the K20 Mini is cheaper than most 2TB internal SSDs.  This is not right, but it is true and if you are desperate for storage you might want to shop around for high speed external USB SSDs.

TweakTown tested the K20 Mini out over USB-C 20Gbps, it is compatible with Thunderbolt as well as USB 40Gbps and it can certainly hit it’s advertised bandwidth of 2000MB/s.  It also ships formatted as exFAT so it will work with anything you want to plug it into.  You might not get quite the same load times as you would with an internal NVMe drive, but that drive could cost you almost twice what the K20 Mini will and it doesn’t come with a magnet.

There are faster external drives out there, as you can see in TweakTown’s review, so if you need more space for games, or for recording 4K video check out the K20 Mini and possibly some of the others featured in the benchmark charts.