SanDisk 2TB Extreme PRO Portable External SSD - Up to 1050MB/s - USB-C, USB 3.1 - SDSSDE80-2T00-G25

The media could not be loaded. The Sandisk Extreme Pro 1TB drive is an amazing product by a quality manufacturer. I opted for the 1TB model for the simple reason that I am a college student with very little money. Otherwise I would have went with the 4TB model as that is the storage space I needed. The speed of transfer is blazing fast. I filled this drive completely full in less than 10 minutes of recieveing it, I am an on the go music producer and needed a reliable drive for my software and audio tools. Without a doubt the drive feels like a premium material and is very well constructed. Immediately after plugging in to any of my laptops the security window appears and allows me to unlock the drive without any issues at all. I really like the included cables it comes with, which both are quality connections USB-C to USB-C and the other one is USB-C to USB-A.I highly recommend this drive to anyone who is looking for a backup drive that isn't going to fail on you like mechanical drives do, as this is SSD and has no moving parts.As Sandisk is still owned by Western Digital I was a little hesitant at first glance because of a previous external 5TB drive id purchased which as you can imagine the amount of data that was lost when that drive failed on me. Let me put it into perspective, I lost 15+ years of music production assets id made for several sample packs which were to be sold on several storefronts and project files all worth around $400,000 give or take a few thousand bucks. All lost due to a random drive failure. Thats a different product offered by Western Digital and does not apply to this Sandisk Extreme Pro, however i simply had some reservations in terms of choosing this backup drive as to rebuild my life after that last one.Overall, this Sandisk Extreme Pro 1TB is a quality product and so far is worth the price, I would suggest going with the larger sized models if you can afford it because 1TB isn't much.

I picked up a SanDisk 1TB Extreme PRO Portable External SSD to replace a slow Western Digital My Passport Ultra drive (120 MB/s read and write times). I wanted a fast and portable drive that I could use to store my backup files as well as store and run Parallels Virtual machines from. This would save 100+ GB on my MacBook Pro SSD.I am very happy with the purchase so far. The build quality and device size is nice, it is simple to use, and fast. I didn't expect to see 1050 MB/s speeds, but was surprised (and happy) to see the 950 MB/s results. Real world file transfer speeds looked like they scaled appropriately based on the file size and file transfer time.Drive Tested:SanDisk 1TB Extreme PRO Portable External SSDAdvertised speed: Up to 1050 MB/s (775% speed increase over WD My Passport Ultra)Highest actual speed: 950 MB/s (691% speed increase over WD My Passport Ultra)Host Device:MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)2.6 GHz i7 / 16 GB / 500 GB / 560XmacOS Catalina 10.15.6 (19G73)BlackMagic Speed Test Results (APFS Format, 1 GB Stress Setting):SanDisk Drive Connected directly to MacBook Pro Thunderbolt 3 port:950 MB/s Read and WriteMacBook Pro Connected to Dell Thunderbolt 3 Dock (WD19TB)SanDisk Drive Connected to the front USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 port of the Dell Thunderbolt Dock900 MB/s Read and WriteMacBook Pro Connected to Dell Thunderbolt 3 Dock (WD19TB)SanDisk Drive Connected to the front USB-A 3.1 Gen 1 port of the Dell Thunderbolt Dock400 MB/s Read and WriteReal World File Transfer Resuts:I copied from\to the SanDisk SSD that was directly connected to my MacBook Pro Thunderbolt 3 port. The transfer times were the same for both directions.30 GB Parallels Virtual Machine file: 30 seconds17 GB Parallels Virtual Machine file: 15 seconds4 GB Parallels Virtual Machine file: 3 seconds

This works really well with my computer. I love the size and storage capacity. The price was right for its quality. I would recommend getting this again and Will by this three times over.

After having horrible luck with regular hard drives, I had to move onto solid state technology for my photo backups. There is always a chance any drive can fail, but this type doesn't have moving parts like older drives do and at risk of crashing and issues. I love the small size and speed as well. If it works quite hard, you can feel it get warm, so it's best to keep that in mind, but I have not had an issue as yet.

I had been using an HDD for my backups for a few years now, which was reliable but slow. (Backing up about 400gb of storage from my computer took about 45 minutes. Restoring took most of the day). With a newer computer with more modern ports, I wanted to get a faster storage device. This certainly did the trick. Using Acronis as my backup software, and using USB-C to USB-C the backup software tells me it copies at 1400-2400Mbps. The first full backup took about 15 minutes. Incremental backups take 5-8 minutes. I haven't had a need to restore from a backup yet.I wish it had more storage (I'm using the 2TB version—translates to 1.8TB useable space), but that would probably double the price.Followup: doing a restore has taken over six hours... far slower than my HDD, but this seems more likely a problem with using Acronis 2020 (previously, I was using Macrium)

A great deal on a solid piece of technology.Works great with my MacBook Air (mid 2017) (and to a lesser extend w/a mid-2011 Mac Mini).It is recognized as an ssd and works as such on the MacBook, and works as an efficient HD on the older Mini (because of the USB technology).Disk speed tests show results on par with my internal SSD on the MacBook.Only issue I ran into was the recent macOS bug that made 10.15.5 screw up Carbon Copy Cloner boot drives.Even still. After wiping my internal hard drive, I reinstalled mac fresh via internet recovery and it literally took less than 10 minutes to do the migration from the backup on my SanDisk.It was only 85GB but that is such an improvement over hdds, it’s almost not even funny!