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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Not worth the price premium
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
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I was looking forward to this drive for extra storage for my M1 MacMini, and I wanted a drive that would outperform a SATA 3 connection. My main resource hog applications and Opus by EastWest and Cubase for orchestral scoring. While applications loaded just fine, there was a definite choke point when it came to streaming large samples off of disk and I was getting clicks and pops even with my audio settings at 44.1/16.
Under Blackmagic, with the data transfers which were well under advertised 1000 MBps. As my screenshots show, the included USB-C cable was only mid 800s for read and 700 for write. Using the USB-C to A adapter yielded only 377 read and 350 write.
Adding insult to injury was I paid $450 for this drive 13 days ago and today it's on sale for $299.
For the pluses, it is packaged well and portable. It feels like solid quality. It was plug and play as can be.
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This little guy is awesome! It is VERY fast (approx 200 MB/s on my pc). I usually transfer at about 95 MB/s when writing to a traditional external hard drive. It is also nice and compact at about 3" tall and 1 1/2" wide and 3/8" thick. And the price was great on a Deal of the Day.
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I love these things. They are so compact and small i just carry them around in my pocket. I have also noticed the download and upload speeds are okay. I just make sure i plan some extra time if i know i need to download/upload alot of pictures or files. The only negative is the where you plug the usb c cable. It would have been nice if there was an attached rubber plug to plug that hole. Just remember to blow on it if you've had it in your pocket.
I also added a small caribiner to it so when i am storing it in my bag it doesnt get lost
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I got this to replace a very old external hard drive. Geek Squad transferred the old content but it could not be access by my newer laptop. I have an appointment today at the store and will be bringing 2 bags of equipment. One bag of equipment shown below. I think this little external 2T drive is probably good but can't tell yet.
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speeds over 2000 for Macbook pro13- 2022 and MacBook Pro 14-2021. others say don't buy if you use a Mac but I think it is their computer because I am getting crazy fast speeds. had for about 6 months. love it.
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Thing is faster then just downloading onto a SSD in my pc. Long as you have the connection types for downloading thing will blow away any ssd in your pc. Amazing fast. Read and write speed.