Sandisk Extreme 500Gb Usb External Solid State Drive

The SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD is a well made and excellent external drive for photo and video and graphic artist professionals. Just be aware that it's 2000MB/sec rating is currently well beyond the read and write capabilities of most computers including current Mac M1 and M2 devices. USB C ports on Mac devices, at least, are only one channel USB 3.2 and not USB 3.2 2x2 enabled. Your speed using this drive will be limited to 1000MB/sec. To future proof your external storage the Extreme Pro SSDs are a great choice and very solid with their aluminum frame. However if you will be sticking with M1 and current M2 devices for years to come you can save money by using the 1000MB/Sec rated SanDisk Extreme SSDs instead.

I recently got a SanDisk 1TB SSD (Solid State Drive) and used a drive cloning device to clone my old 1TB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) to the new SSD. It works wonders in my 15 year old computer! It really speeds up drive-related activities, perhaps as much as 3 or 4 times faster. I think my old HP laptop computer is either a SATA or SATA II type, so I suspect those with a SATA III system would see even better speed results when going from a HDD to a SSD. Gotta love it!

My other external drive is almost full, so I got this to replace it. The nice things about the SanDisk 4TB Extreme Pro Portable SSD V2 is that it is... portable! As small as an old flip phone, with a rubber back which overlaps the sides for protection and non-slip grip. I like it. And it initially transfered the data just fine. Just need to finish the job.

For several years I have been using the small Samsung USB-C external drives (almost credit-card sized) -- I used two 500GB and one 1TB drives along with Carbon Copy Cloner and my MacBook Air. That worked well (although the 1TB became corrupted and unusable about 3 months ago) and I would especially back up the drive before any flight and separate the drive from my laptop at TSA. I just upgraded to a (wonderful!) MacBook Pro 14 and attempted a Migration Assistant transfer from the Air using a fresh Samsung backup. I let it run for about 8 hours and it never got past the first Looking for applications and documents... stage. To cut to the chase: I thus ordered this 500GB LaCie drive and did a fresh CCC backup from the MB Air. It took 7 minutes to backup 400GB of data! Using the Samsung with USB-C it would take 13 mins for ~22GB. (See screenshot of CCC logs.) I hooked the LaCie up to the MB Pro and started Migration Assistant. The whole process took ~15 minutes. Previously it would take hours. Sorry for rambling on. TLDR; A wicked fast external drive worth every penny. And Thunderbolt makes a huge difference!

The SanDisk 1TB Extreme Pro USB 3.2 flash drive is very well made and durable - great if you travel or carry it a lot. Also, the speed of the drive is fast. Recommended. Also, very fast shipping by B & H Photo.

Upon lifting the SanDisk Extreme Pro USB flash drive, one immediately feels the solid construction. These are very well built, and reliable. They transfer data very quickly. I have purchased several and am completely satisfied with them.

Solid state drive worth it.

I installed the Samsung 250GB Solid State Drive in my Lenovo desk-top computer. I moved Windows and all my application software to the solid state drive and all of my personal files to the internal disc drive. The disc drive is backed by an external disc drive. The resulting system is much faster. The installation went very smooth, although I had the entire system backed up on an external disk drive incase anything went wrong.

The Sandisk 3D SSD works well in a USB 3 dock as an external media drive for audio/video editing.

The SanDisk 500GB SSD drive was a great match for my HP notebook. Thank you!