SANDISK - Extreme 1TB Portable SSD External USB Type-C SSD, up to 2000MB/s, IP65 water / dust resistance - Black

This HD is so small and hold so much storage. Don’t know how I lived this long without it.

I am a digital packrat. I love creating content for my work, friends and home movies for the family. I have large 12-14 TB standalone HDD and they work great for long term storage and redundant back ups but I cannot work directly off them as they are too cumbersome and slow. I also hate being tied down to a single workstation at home. Larger projects take days, weeks and months to complete and I need to be free to work where I want to and the Sandisk Extreme let me do just that! Why I choose Sandisk Extreme - For one, Speed….raw beautiful, powerful speed (2000 mb/s read). I love that I can dump all my project videos and pics into it and work from any PC I want just by plugging in the Sandisk Extreme…. The office, home or on the back deck…I can take it with me. I love it. Also keeps my PC lean and free to focus on the application cranking away the data. You get a dirty bogged down pc and crashes, lock up and errors are headed your way. On the portability feature one might be concerned with what if I drop it or spill a soda on it… No worries here. It is rated IP65 which means it is dust proof and soda splash proof….Now if you completely submerge it… you might be in trouble depending how long and how deep it goes(maybe)…But a soda spill or a splash of some sort…not a problem. Safe. The drop test on it is up to 9 feet and change! I’m 6 feet tall, so the most I would drop is probably 4 feet. I also love that it has a Carabiner hook on the corner so I can clip it onto my go-bag or key chain! So well designed For on the go…. It also lays flat on its bottom side and has a material that grabs the surface below it so it does move around a lot. I wish the cable was a little longer though (small gripe to be sure and personal preference.) Overall if you do multimedia, or want a safe way to have your digital files on the go with you and you want speed… Sandisk Extreme is the best game in town. Well built and tough on spills, drops and dust proof… Can’t go wrong.

The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V3 is a well designed, rugged, portable USB SSD with up to 2 GB/s read performance. The retail box contains quick start instructions, warranty information, a 6" USB-C to USB-C cable and the SSD itself. The SSD measures 2" x 3 5/16" and is 3/8" thick. It fits very comfortably into a pocket, and has a loop so it can be attached to a lanyard or a large key fob. It feels very solid and well manufactured, offers IP65 water and dust resistance, and should withstand a drop of up to 3 meters. The drive functions essentially the same as a USB flash drive, no special drivers or other software are required. When connected to a USB-C port on a desktop or laptop, the SSD is immediately recognized and available for use. It appears as an external USB storage device named Extreme, its file system format is exFAT and the Eject function is available for the drive. The SSD comes with SanDisk Security software for Windows 10/11 and macOS 13/14/15. This software enables SSD password protection using its available 256-bit AES hardware encryption, allowing the user to create and change a password, unlock the drive, and remove the password. SanDisk states up to a 2000 MB/s sequential read speed. Write speed is described as being lower with no number provided. With the SSD connected to a Thunderbolt 4 port on an HP Ultra Flip laptop, CrystalDiskMark measures 1975 MB/s and 1246 MB/s sequential read and write speeds. When connected to a USB Type-C port with USB 3.2 Gen 2 support on a Windows 11 desktop PC, CrystalDiskMark measures 969 MB/s and 861 MB/s sequential read and write speeds. This reflects the difference in SSD performance over USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 vs. USB 3.2 Gen 2. The durability, size and performance of the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD make it an ideal device for handling a very large collection of audio files as I work with a friend and manually transfer data to/from a remote machine. I would strongly recommend this product to anyone looking for a durable, portable, high volume and high performance external storage device.

The SanDisk - Extreme 1TB portable external hard drive is definitely rugged -- a really good thing given the condition the package arrive in :-O (see picture). I originally started using this SSD external hard drive as my Time Machine backup for a Mac Studio Ultra M3 Ultra. But, given its portability, I changed the use of this hard drive to portioned half as storage and half as my Time Machine backup for my MacBook Pro M5 14". This decision was based on two factors: this hard drive is incredibly small and easily portable and the hard drive space on my MacBook is only 512GB as opposed to 2TB on the Mac Studio. So, it makes sense to have the portability of such a slim design for additional storage on the go as well as a Time Machine backup that actually fits the entirety of my computer's own hard drive. According to an app I use called Menu Meters, I have been averaging approximately 1,800 MB/s using a heavy duty USB-C cord for data transfer. Menu Meters does not measure the speeds for Time Machine, but I was able to do a full, fresh backup of approximately 380GB in just under 2 hours, though part of that was on battery power so I expect it would be even faster if done plugged in the whole time. Overall, this is a great pocket/briefcase/purse friendly rugged hard drive with modest space and excellent speed. If I had the option to buy the same drive with more storage to meet the 2TB needed for backup on my desktop, I definitely would. Highly recommend.

The drive is about the same thickness and width as the older Extreme Portable SSDs, but it's noticeably shorter - shaving off about 17mm. This makes for an even more pocketable drive to toss in a bag and include in your tech travel kit. And it's just as sturdy as ever, with only a USB-C port exposed to the outside world. It's spec'd with an IP65 water resistance...and although I wasn't ready to fully test it, the entire drive appears well sealed. The interface of the drive is USB 3.2 Gen2, and that shows in my benchmarks; actually getting pretty close to the 2000MB/s read speed of the specifications. Writing, not so much. I tested the drive on an Apple laptop with Thunderbolt 5 and the speeds were slower than a newer Windows laptop I have, but YMMV. Simply put, to reach the stated speed of the drive, you'll need fast ports (obviously), but it's still not a guarantee. The drive comes formatted in ExFAT, works fine on iOS devices, and even contains a PDF file that provides a link to the Sandisk App (previously called the Sandisk Memory Zone). The app, itself, is pretty good at managing local file backups quickly and the interface is easy to understand and navigate.