SanDisk - Extreme 2TB External USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A/Type-C Portable Solid-State Drive

Me And My Royal Enfield motorcycle are traveling around recording YouTubes and I use the SanDisk Extreme 2TB SSD to store my videos until I can get them edited and up on YouTube. It has been a great product and being solid-state I don't have to worry about the punishment it takes being strapped to my Interceptor 650 all day. Getting ready to buy my third one. I love it!

Speed is 5x than hard drive (500mb/s vs 100mb/s); size is generally only 1/6 volume of hard drive. It is great. Any one knows to how to encrypt it on Mac?

This is my second SSD from SanDisk and it's the same one. I really love this device, the speed, the weight, the size, and the quality are amazing!

I have the 2 TB device which holds a lot of images. Sd cards hold 32 to 64 GB typically so this will hold about 30 of my cards, but I dont have 30 cards since each one is $120. It is a no-brainer to buy this to back up files. It reads and writes incredibly fast using USB 3.0. I am very happy also that I caught it on sale.

I just picked up a 2TB drive from my local Best Buy today and noticed that the box and device both say Made in Malaysia when I thought these were made in China. I'm wondering if got a Grey Market or counterfeit product? The SanDisk lettering on the front of the device looks worn off already and I just purchased this brand new and unsealed the box. Is this how they are supposed to come now? The serial number on the back of the device is very hard to read and not clearly marked which is also suspicious. Can someone from SanDisk chime in? I will update this review upon further communication from SanDisk.

The SanDisk Extreme NVMe SSD has a small size and rugged construction perfect for taking it with you on the go, and fast speeds which make it great for any task you could reasonably throw at it. Backed by the long-trusted SanDisk and Western Digital brands, this unit is a worthy pick for those needing a decent external drive.

Disk Utility app in mac, reformat to AFPS, and BOOM! One super quick and steady ssd external portable drive. I bought two of these to use for virtual instrument libraries and sample libraries, and their file structures which can be any where from a few megabytes to hundreds of GBs. For those interested in which libraries I've moved to these drives, I have my entire Native Instruments Komplete 12 Collector's Edition, Eastwest Composer Cloud, Falcon/UVI Libraries, and more. Since these drives won't be creating and deleting stuff over and over, they have the potential to last a very long time with good care and handling. It comes with usb-c to usb-c cable and an optional usb-c to usb-3.0. This is a great bonus for me when I have to travel or work away from my studio, and may need a different port to connect. I didn't do any official speed testing, but did take some stopwatch measurements to see, and the results were not too far off between the 3.0 and usb-c connection. For me they were plugged into a CalDigit Thunderbolt 3 dock, which is connected to my Macbook Pro 2014 (thunderbolt 2 backwards compatible! with official apple cable adapter). Anyhow, enough said on that. These drives are not cheap, but you get what you pay for, and that is saying a lot these days! I have nothing negative to say about these drives after using them for the past few weeks. So much faster than the 5400 and 7200 rpm drives I had been using via thunderbolt 2 and usb 2/3 in the past. I will follow up if there are any issues to share.

I needed this for my work computer, especially since I've been working from home due to COVID-19 restrictions. I needed to replace an aging external drive on which I had nearly all my project files on that was starting to act up. I needed something a bit more reliable so this was it. It is small, light-weight, and pretty fast. Granted, there is a newer model that came out that is faster, but more expensive. For what I am using this device for, it works extremely well. I have had no problems with it working with my machine. Plugged it in, and it was immediately recognized. No boot-up issues or crashes or anything like that. Yes, it is kinda pricey, but such is the nature of SSDs.