Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great size and speed for the price. Love the compactness of the device.

Love it. Very fast and reliable storage. Keeps up with my computer flawlessly.

This product is so easy to use! It’s a real plug and play product. The only thing that you need to know is that if you want it separately downloaded then you must do it one by one

I love how compact and fast this drive is. It's very handy with the place in the corner to connect a ring or hook. I have two and one I hang from my lanyard I wear at work. It's a very handy way to keep my personal docs with me and not store them on my company issued computer.

Super small yet simple to use, speed is also great! Highly recommend and very portable.

Great product. It is travel size and work very well.

So lightweight, compact and amazing storage space! Glad I tried it out! Its a keeper :-)

This portable drive works perfectly, is lightweight and durable

Very happy with this purchase! Would highly recommend this to anyone, especially if they were in the photography profession! This small external is so much faster than all my other externals. Copies files 3x as fast! Need a new external? Buy this!!

It’s light and sleek; fits perfectly in my hand. Hooked it up to my Mac book and it automatically connected no issues. It was also nice to move items into the drive really quick.

I’ve needed this storage for a while now to free some space on my phone. I’m glad i got the storage.

The SSD is great. I use it with a MacBook Air M1. My only complaint is that the cable seems extremely short. Only about four inches.

I am really enjoying this purchase, I had a ton of photos I took for some sports photography and beach photos to get from my camera to my computer to a drive. This product works great!

Bought this to use as external storage of PS4 games on my PS5. The only thing keeping it from 5-Stars is the cable it comes with is woefully short for this purpose. I keep my PS5 horizontal so it's not too much trouble but I had to order a longer cable. If I kept my PS5 vertical this drive would just be hanging in space.

Fast, small, portable, excellent solid state drive for transferring photos taken during seminar

I knew I’d love this...it’s a perfect size, although it is big enough that it won’t slide back under the cabinets. It cooks fast and the chicken and steaks come out perfectly done and not dry! For holidays I am considering getting a second one.

This SSD is blazing fast and when it's on sale, it's a great deal. Using for Windows 11 To Go USB, which can be booted on any Windows or MacBook that allows external boot USBs. If they put that 2TB on sale ... I need it.

As a DJ who don't like keeping music on his computer slowing it down due to memory space used, I still needed access to my music fast so enter this SSD portable drive come in handy, compact and no moving parts. Great go to tool to keep space free on computer

Great storage as always from this company and ease of setup!

The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V2 is SanDisk’s newest model of small, portable, high-capacity Solid State Drives (SSD), with a notable improvement in data transfer speed capabilities over its predecessor the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V1. SanDisk and its parent company since 2016, Western Digital have long been a highly respected and popular manufacturer of computer storage including hard disk drives, flash memory products and SSD devices. I rely on Western Digital and SanDisk for many of my own storage products because they have always proven to be very reliable products with excellent performance. SanDisk has cultivated an outstanding reputation for their flash memory cards and drives and for their solid state drives. The new Extreme Portable SSD V2 excels in several important ways! The Extreme Portable V2 is available in 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB models. The black enclosure appears to be constructed of non-metallic composite which is clad on five sides by a silicone rubber material which from appearances should prove to be both rugged and durable. This is a mostly sealed device which is IP 55 rated for dust and water resistance. The IP 55 rating does not certify that a device is waterproof or submersible. An IP 55 rating indicates that a device is protected from limited dust ingress and from low pressure water jets. The USB-C port does not have a sealing cover however. The dimensions of the Extreme Portable V2 are 4 7/8” in length x 2” in width” x 7/16” in thickness. It is both light weight, and compact. Portable SSDs are extraordinarily convenient and useful for many purposes. Video content producers find them to be essential. Given their large capacity and high data transfer rates they are ideal for those purposes as well as data backup and storage, and notably, for use as a portable file store when using multiple computers, and particularly when travelling away from home or primary workplace. The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V2 is generally well suited to working when away from a primary computer. When travelling “light”, the SanDisk Extreme SSD is a good accompaniment to an extremely portable 13.3” Chromebook, as long as the SanDisk Extreme is not utilizing password protection / data encryption security with the included, SanDisk Security Software. That compact, lightweight pair obviously can’t run AutoCAD, but they easily accommodate working with Microsoft Office files, Adobe Acrobat files and other functionality not requiring hauling around a large, heavy and powerful laptop. However, if SanDisk Security Software is utilized, only Windows and Mac OS computers are supported. Most users will probably choose to utilize password protection and data encryption, and therein lie additional minor nuisance issues that I encountered, beyond the inability to utilize the SanDisk Security protected SSD with a Chromebook. The SanDIsk Security Software installation exe file for Windows computers and a zip file for Macs is located on the drive. The SanDisk Security Software installs on a host computer via that executable file on the SSD. The installed software is required in order to create, change or remove password protection and AES 256 Bit encryption on the SanDisk Extreme Portable V2 SSD. Unlocking the SSD can be accomplished with the SanDisk Security software application. However, the SanDisk Security software is not required to unlock the SSD. The SSD can also be unlocked on any Windows or Mac computer, without the SanDisk Security Software, via the SanDisk Drive Unlock Utility, which creates a Virtual CD Drive on the attached computer. Unfortunately, neither the SanDisk Security Software application, nor the SanDisk Unlock Utility work with Chrome OS. The SanDisk Security Software offers the option to “Auto-Unlock”, on an attached computer with the full SanDisk Security Software installed. A convenient option, but antithetical to maximum access restriction security for the data on the SSD. When using the SanDisk Security Software I found that the time for the mounted SSD to be recognized by the Security Software averaged approximately 33 – 41 seconds. After entering the password, there was an average wait of approximately 8 – 10 seconds for the SSD to unlock. This period of roughly 50 seconds seems like a long delay when you are attempting to access your files. I am compelled to remark that when utilizing a competitor’s 1 TB SSD, which similarly provides AES 256 Bit encryption and password protection, and also includes a biometric security feature, that drive is recognized immediately, and unlocks instantly. Furnished in the box with the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V2 is one, 6” USB 3.2 Gen 2 cable, terminated at both ends with USB Type C connectors. Also included, is a USB Type C to USB Type A adaptor. A 6” USB cable is absurdly short and is an impediment. Additionally, the small adaptor may easily be misplaced. Another SSD that I own included two, 17.5” long USB cables (both a USB Type-A to USB Type-C cable and a USB Type-C to USB Type-C cable). The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD should have two cables of decent, practical length, as well. There is a printed SSD Safety and Warranty Guide included, which includes a URL (http://www.downloads.sandisk.com/downloads/um/ssd-install-guide.pdf) for downloading the PDF User Manual from the SanDisk website. Unfortunately, the URL printed in the guide is non-functional, and I could not locate a User Manual for this model anywhere on the SanDisk Support site. Perhaps the User Manual should have been included on the SSD. While exploring the SanDisk Support site, I downloaded and installed the SanDisk Dashboard, Version 3.1.2.5.. I was disappointed to discover that the SanDisk Dashboard software did not interact properly with this SSD. It did not display Drive Health, Temperature or S.M.A.R.T. passthrough data, etc. Nor did the diagnostics work with this SSD. Perhaps you will have better results with the Dashboard application; I ultimately uninstalled it. The SanDisk Extreme SSD is preformatted in exFAT, with 512 byte sector size. There is no visual indicator for drive activity or power on the SanDisk Extreme SSD. I believe that an LED power / drive activity annunciator would be beneficial. The high transfer rate specifications for the SanDisk Extreme SSD V2 are a very impressive 1050 Mbps for Sequential Reads and 1000 Mbps for Sequential Writes. Those fast data transfer rates are attributable to the PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) bus, NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) memory and USB 3.2 Gen2 connectivity. However, those data transfer rates are only achievable when the host computer is similarly equipped with USB 3.2 Gen2 ports. (The SanDisk Extreme PRO model SSD is rated at 2000 Mbps transfer speeds). My test speeds were limited by the USB 3.0 ports on both of the laptops available for testing. USB 3.0, data transfer rates were measured with Crystal DiskMark 7.0 at 458 Mb/s Sequential Reads and 449 MB/s Sequential Writes. Nevertheless, based on anecdotal observation, the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V2 was extremely fast. Very large file transfers were very fast. Data transfer rates did not appear to be affected at all by AES 256 Bit software encryption. The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V2 does become palpably warm when attached to a computer, even when idle, and generates heat in proportion to activity when it is actively in use. Large data transfers generate a lot of heat. I would presume that SanDisk employs a single layer PCM (Phase Change Material) to somewhat mitigate the heat generated by use (presumably encapsulated paraffin wax). Nevertheless, the SanDisk Extreme SSD runs hot, and perhaps it may retain heat, rather than dissipate it effectively, as a consequence of the silicone rubber cladding which is likely insulative. Overall, the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V2 is a very good portable SSD. It offers large capacity and very fast data transfer rates. The IP 55 rating is a valuable asset for portable SSD drives particularly when travelling. SanDisk provides a five year warranty on the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V2, which certainly bests the typical three year warranties. The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V2 is certainly worthy of consideration and I am comfortable recommending it!