Customer Ratings & Reviews

This was working ok to begin with, however, now it slows my computer way down after only using it for a year. I use it to save and archive files, and when I go to store a file, it sits for at least 15 seconds before the file begins transferring. Super annoying. I checked on forums, and made sure the small USB-C is plugged in with the arrows lines up. I would not purchase this again.

This is a very nice SDD Drive, transferring is very fast. Little high on the price but it is very good. Would I recommend this, YES.

Excellent product. Works well for holding tv footage.

Ok look, these hard drives are fast, yes and it would be a 5 star BUT it just formatted entirely! I lost a couple projects I was working on and they are completely wiped off. I had some incredibly important files I had yet to transfer so I'm glad I hadn't yet but they completely wiped off. Just horrible. no way in recovering it. I read online that this is common issue with with these and that's why they are $100 off currently.

Have not really used it yet so no opinion.........

It only works with 550mbs,, not 1050 how they say.

SanDisk extremes (circal 2023) are no longer reliable. When they get about 1/2-full, they fail completely, with no chance of recovery. Search for "Sandisk extreme defect" and you'll find lots of stories about this, for example: https://www.theverge.com/22291828/sandisk-extreme-pro-portable-my-passport-failure-continued WD offers a firmware update, but your data is gone for good: https://www.theverge.com/22291828/sandisk-extreme-pro-portable-my-passport-failure-continued

Chose to buy this SSD over some of the competitors because I liked the way it looked and I am a photographer, so I trust Sandisk SD Cards. I do regret it though. I am using this just to transfer exported photo and video files between devices and as a backup. The FIrst few times it worked well and the transfer speeds were fast. But out of nowhere after a few uses, the highest speed I can get while transferring is about 20 mbp/s. Sometimes it stops transferring all together. It tends to throttle between 5mbp/s and 20. Tried doing some research online and some people have had this problem but still have not found a solution. Hopefully, bestbuy lets me return this for a Samsung SSD.

Please do some research on this line of ssd before purchasing. SanDisk knows these are flawed and there is no real way to fix them. I purchased one because it looks like a great deal but after losing important data and currently going through my second round of warranty replacements I advise you to look at alternative options to this one.

These are just not well-made. I did my research and thought it would be a reliable product, but mine failed in about seven weeks of minimal (less than weekly) backups of my Lightroom library. Looking around, they are getting a lot of other one-star ratings for failure. Definitely not what you want in a drive that is supposed to backup important files. Or anything for that matter.

There is a massive issue in these deives causing them to fully fail and lose data that WD refuses to acknowledge. I took this drive to a data recovery center and the guy laughed and said he was so sorry.

too expensive to buy this external drive..not worth the money for 2 TB and still slow

I stored files on this drive as usual. The next day I opened the drive. My client's video files are gone. I thought it was my mistake and tried again. It FAILED AGAIN. It is so frustrating to me as I brought a couple of these and it is past the return window. Just stay away from SanDisk drives.

Hard to imagine this gets so many stars. Mine stopped working after 6 weeks and the number of forum posts that describe the same issue are numerous. My mac simply does not recognize it anymore. All data lost.

I went through 2 of these (2TB) and had the same problem with the computer not being able to recognize the drive. Every time it was plugged in, it would ask to be formatted - which erases everything on the drive.

They work great until one day you plug it in and it is unreadable. I used it for off line storage, rarely connected, lightly used, kept inside. I'll NEVER buy another SanDisk product. Ask me if I think you should...

The reason these are so cheap is because there is a firmware issue that deletes files. Google Sandisk 2TB SSD Issues for a multitude of reported issues.

Both drives failed. Seeking RMA / refund. I have never had this happen in over 20 years of handling dozens of drives.

this drive cause kernel panic on mac mini m1 if it is left plugged during boot. it seems the 1TB does not cause this issue, only 2TB from my own testing.

Seriously folks, do a modicum of research... these are a disaster waiting to happen.