SanDisk 2TB Extreme PRO Portable External SSD - Up to 1050MB/s - USB-C, USB 3.1 - SDSSDE80-2T00-G25

I picked up a SanDisk 1TB Extreme PRO Portable External SSD to replace a slow Western Digital My Passport Ultra drive (120 MB/s read and write times). I wanted a fast and portable drive that I could use to store my backup files as well as store and run Parallels Virtual machines from. This would save 100+ GB on my MacBook Pro SSD.I am very happy with the purchase so far. The build quality and device size is nice, it is simple to use, and fast. I didn't expect to see 1050 MB/s speeds, but was surprised (and happy) to see the 950 MB/s results. Real world file transfer speeds looked like they scaled appropriately based on the file size and file transfer time.Drive Tested:SanDisk 1TB Extreme PRO Portable External SSDAdvertised speed: Up to 1050 MB/s (775% speed increase over WD My Passport Ultra)Highest actual speed: 950 MB/s (691% speed increase over WD My Passport Ultra)Host Device:MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)2.6 GHz i7 / 16 GB / 500 GB / 560XmacOS Catalina 10.15.6 (19G73)BlackMagic Speed Test Results (APFS Format, 1 GB Stress Setting):SanDisk Drive Connected directly to MacBook Pro Thunderbolt 3 port:950 MB/s Read and WriteMacBook Pro Connected to Dell Thunderbolt 3 Dock (WD19TB)SanDisk Drive Connected to the front USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 port of the Dell Thunderbolt Dock900 MB/s Read and WriteMacBook Pro Connected to Dell Thunderbolt 3 Dock (WD19TB)SanDisk Drive Connected to the front USB-A 3.1 Gen 1 port of the Dell Thunderbolt Dock400 MB/s Read and WriteReal World File Transfer Resuts:I copied from\to the SanDisk SSD that was directly connected to my MacBook Pro Thunderbolt 3 port. The transfer times were the same for both directions.30 GB Parallels Virtual Machine file: 30 seconds17 GB Parallels Virtual Machine file: 15 seconds4 GB Parallels Virtual Machine file: 3 seconds

This product is great and durable for any and all of your on the go needs!With this being an SSD you get great speeds for transfers/read/writing.This is also small and portable enough to fit in your pocket or and small space in your bags during travel!I highly recommend this product as a portable/on the go hard drive for any content creators or business needs!

After having horrible luck with regular hard drives, I had to move onto solid state technology for my photo backups. There is always a chance any drive can fail, but this type doesn't have moving parts like older drives do and at risk of crashing and issues. I love the small size and speed as well. If it works quite hard, you can feel it get warm, so it's best to keep that in mind, but I have not had an issue as yet.

I use this drive to expand the storage on my gaming laptop. I tried attaching it to the back directly with Velcro stickers but the heat from the drive kept melting the glue. I found the best mounting option was to mount a Command hook to the back and hang it from the lanyard hole. I'm able to run modern games (Control, Pretty, Jedi: Fallen Order) directly from the drive with no delay or loading time.

So I got this could be about a year ago or so to replace my then Time Capsule which was being used for backup but then began giving trouble backing up getting stuck in the process. I went with this because I know SanDisk to be a good brand and of course can't beat SSD drive-wise.The Time Capsule would you believe is still going strong after all these years which I continued using for its internal WIFI and internet router, but for backup the SanDisk 500GB Extreme PRO Portable External SSD is what is being used. I have to say it is super-fast, reliable and have no regrets thus far. It was money well spent.

Wonderful product being compact and sturdy. Use it as a laptop image back-up on a monthly basis and it works perfectly. However, my write speeds (much slower than advertised) were between 360MB/sec to 800MB/sec using a 3.1 Type C port and the cable that it comes with. If It had attained copy speeds of 1100MB/sec, it would have received 5-stars. It is a very good SSD product and sturdy.

I got this drive for my sister who is trying to eke a few more months out of her aging laptop but was rapidly running out of space. She was able to move her entire iPhotos library - 41,000+ photos and 150+ videos - to the external drive in about an hour. She freed up over 100GB of space on her Macbook and is experiencing less lagging. The drive is small enough to be easily portable - she notes it is smaller than her iPhone XR and easily fits into the pouch that carries her power cord and accessories. A great tool to help extend the capacity of your laptop!

this is my second sandisk SSD. I was already quite happy with my Extreme SSD 500Gb from 2018, but needed larger capacity and faster speeds. I read the reviews and was tempted for a while with the samsung T7. However, I heard about throttling issues there, and decided to go for the Extreme Pro. my 700Gb backup was so quick I had to run it a second time and check files to see it for myself. The device is larger than the Extreme, a bit thicker, but still very pocketable and feels higher end and solid. The speed was simply amazing. Such a increase in productivity. Note that I have re-formatted on NTFS and installed the latest version of bitlocker for Windows 10 for security. I use auto-unlock. Thank you Sandisk!