SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD 2TB up to 550MB/s read, Solid State Drive

Purchased as I needed to replace my Seagate one. Nothing wrong with Seagate, but due to the new USB-C ports machines now have, the cable on the old Seagate one kept cutting in and out and was dying on me. Chose this. Was expensive, but was in middle of a live project and so had to invest. SIZE WOW. I think this is a real selling point for me. I was so surprised by how small it was. I've tried to take a pic for buyers to relate to it. It can sit in palm of hand. About size smaller and so light, than a computer mouse. RUGGEDNESS Completely feels secure, and has already has had some knocks being on set and around my bag. When you plug it in, you know the cables are secure and during transfer. Yet to test against external extreme conditions. EASE OF USE Like with all of the portable drives. They are simple to use. Simply plug and play. Up to you if you want to use it as an external drive, or/and as a back up drive. No issues what so ever. Up to you if you want to install the Sandisk encryption software. If it wasn't so pricey (as everyone is different), I would snap up another.... maybe if I save up after this festive season.. Definitely recommend. I'm work remote and so my needs are for it to be quite resilient. Hope this review helps others.

No words. Absolute monster on speed, weight, size and theoretically on durability too. When I saw the product box I was astonished. When I opened it and grabbed the disc I was shocked. As you can see from the attached pictures (sorry for poor quality) it is a lot smaller than a WD My Passport Ultra 2Tb, specially a LOT thinner. What you can't see is how LIGHT it is. It also feels sturdier, specially knowing there's no moving parts inside. I'm just happy to throw it around now with no care at all. Comes with a (short) USB-C to USB-C cable plus a USB-A 3.1 adaptor for the computer side. This is probably the only weak side of the whole product - as with any other, be careful with the connection. Ah! Forgot about the blasting speeds (CrystalDiskMark run on Win7, on a 4 years old Latitude E5570). It is 3-4 times quicker than all the portable HDD I've got. It's almost as quick as the SSD in my laptop. If you live on the move, and moving lots of files, this is a no-brainer and a must-have. Save some money up, it's well worth it. PS: Main downside: it's so amazing you are going to fill it up too quickly! Can you tell I fell in love with it? UPDATE: 2 extra pics, speed checks this time with a new Latitude E5501 with Windows 10, first one running on USB-A, second on Thunderbolt port. Also, after extensive and hard use, hard drive becomes quite hot. This is I suppose quite normal, though a potential point of concern for durability.

I had been torn for about half a year in trying to decide whether I should invest in a new SSD drive or simply go with an older, cheaper, bigger, and mechanic model. I wanted to use this drive to back up old books, pdf, and personal files, so likely wouldnt use more than 500 GB. After a lot of deliberation, I just decided to go for this one, since it was well rated. Overall, I can say I am very happy I did. The drive is very small, about the size of a credit card and the thickness of a pen. It feels like quality and sturdy, not flimsy and not like you have to worry about breaking it in daily use. Its ridiculously fast, too. Others here have provided better information about it, but for common use and without much technical knowledge the speed boast compared to my previous drives is VERY noticeable. It also comes with a very flexible USB-C and USB adapter for all varieties of outputs. Only thing that was useful to know (which another user here posted) was that its helpful to reformat the drive to use a lower minimum file size. I also bought the carrying case for it, which definitely allowed to store all the stuff more comfortably, so I can recommend that as well. Overall a great piece of technology.

I use this drive as a safe and compact backup to all my movies, music and photos. I have 2 other drives storing my precious files but this one is for travel and goes with me everywhere. It is smaller than it looks in the picture and for that I am pleased. It works well and copies at high speeds, my Mac Air recognized it as soon as it was plugged in and I am impressed with the performance and quality. It is built tough and is solid state so will last and last. I may buy only SSD from now on. My data is safe and this small external hard drive is very reliable and I recommend it. I liked it so much, I bought another for a gift.

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This external is absolutely perfect for my needs. I bought the 2TB version and it has become my "everything" drive. I love having all of this space in such a portable form factor! It's actually smaller than I expected it to be and it slips perfectly in my pocket and disappears because it's so lightweight. Of course, don't rely on a drive like this alone as your only backup. I have a 12TB NAS with redundancy that I use to back up this SSD (among other things) and my NAS is automatically backed up via Backblaze, so I have three locations (Backblaze being remote), and I have redundancy on my NAS so if one of those drives fails then I can replace it without losing anything. Unfortunately I cannot harness the full speed of this drive because I'm using a 2014 MacBook Pro which only has USB-3, which is about half the speed of USB-C, furthermore I have this plugged into a powered USB hub. That being said, to my surprise I'm actually getting around 405 MB/s writes and 425 MB/s reads, which is significantly better than I thought I would get, this is a little over 4X faster than real world performance of a standard non-SSD external drive, so it's still plenty zippy for my needs! To test a sustained load I moved over my existing Kontakt library (music production plugins and such). A 160GB transfer took me 8 minutes and 23 seconds, which is perfectly fine, when moving using a standard non-SSD external it takes almost 35 minutes! A more reasonable 3GB transfer takes around 7-8 seconds, doing the same file transfer over to my WD EasyStore (standard HDD) takes about 38 seconds. For fun I tested transferring 3GB to my NAS and it took 1 minute 36 seconds. I expected it to be slow because I don't have the best internal network plus I'm using slow (but reliable) drives and it has to write the data multiple times. The NAS is just for bulk storage. The icing on top is the added durability. This is IP55 rated which means it can withstand dust and splashing, which means it's great for outdoor use for storing photos and such. Furthermore, it's rated to withstand a 2 meter (roughly 6.5 foot) drop. This is a great little drive! My MBP only has a 500GB drive and all of my plugins and samples were eating up hundreds of gigs and I was becoming really tired of constantly having to go through everything and try to maintain space. I wasn't even able to download all of my Kontakt content locally because I simply didn't have enough room, so I had to pick and choose what plugins I wanted to have locally, trying to store everything on the NAS was error-prone because Kontakt didn't like it for some reason but it was also way too slow. This drive is fast enough to where I can work on Logic Pro X projects directly on it without having to create scratch space locally, something I couldn't do with a normal non-SSD external (way too cumbersome). Now instead of having only 10-20GB local storage I’m back up to around 320GB - much better! I can breathe! Just remember - don't rely on any external as your only backup! Try to back up your most important data in three locations, one being a remote location, if possible.

Comprei a versão de 1tb vendida pela Tech-Place. Chegou bem antes do prazo estimado e em perfeitas condições. É realmente impressionate o quão pequeno o SSD é, ainda mais quando comparado aos HDs externos (trambolhos) que tenho. A velocidade de transferência atingiu minhas expectativas, especialmente conectando direto a uma porta USB-C (há um adaptador para a porta USB-A 3.0, mas nem cheguei a usá-lo). Parece resistente e o design, assim como suas texturas, é muito bacana. Um ponto que vi muitas avaliações reclamando é o comprimento do cabo. Ele é curto, mas para mim foi o tamanho ideal. Torna prático para levar no bolso junto com o SSD e não vejo problema em deixar o SSD pendurado quando conectado ao computador considerando a leveza do aparelho. O único ponto negativo que tenho é o preço, porém para um produto tecnológico vendido no Brasil, não tem como ser diferente. Se fosse mais barato já tinha comprado uns 3 para mim e mais alguns para dar de presente.