SanDisk 1TB Portable SSD external SSD USB 3.2 Gen 2 up
SanDisk 1TB Portable SSD external SSD USB 3.2 Gen 2 up to 520 MB/s read speeds
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1: Up to 520MB/s read speed. Write speeds lower. Based on internal testing; performance may be lower depending on host device, interface, usage conditions and other factors. 1MB=1,000,000 bytes.
1A: See official SanDisk website.
2: Based on internal testing.
2A: 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes, 1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Actual user capacity less.
| Weight: | 40.8 g |
| Dimensions: | 9.68 x 4.7 x 0.99 cm; 40.82 Grams |
| Brand: | SanDisk |
| Model: | SDSSDE30-1T00-G25 |
| Colour: | Black |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | SanDisk |
| Dimensions: | 9.68 x 4.7 x 0.99 cm; 40.82 Grams |
My offline storage price was going to quadruple do I got a SanDisk which cost less than two years storage with my old company and I have it for ever ( I hope)
I have 3 of these bought at different times and they all perform the same. They test quite a bit faster than advertised in my experience so at 100 for 2tb they are great value
Smaller and thinner than I was expecting. Very light and reasonable speed response when in use.
Not tested the 2m drop claim but looks like it would happily cope with being knocked off a desk.
If you use a Mac reformat this to HSFS, as that will avoid some of the risks when unplugging the drive. I did trash mine by unplugging carelessly
It is lightweight compared to my Western drive, and feels rugged to take everywhere with me. Comes with additional adaptors to use the traditional USB A ports but I highly recommend using the USB C.
On their own they are pretty tough – I have occasionally dropped them with no ill effect. Protected in the small dedicated case, they would have to be trampled by an elephant to break. A bit pricey, but worth it!
This SSD is perfect for travelling and moving around as it’s so small yet powerful to hold your videos and photos. I use mine with a Satechi high speed cable as well to make moving items/editing faster.
Small enough to be ultra portable, with enough capacity to hold large art and music projects. The speed is such that I can run vst instrument libraries/audio projects from it should I wish.
Great fit and finish, this feels like a quality product- the inclusion of both usbc-c and usba-c cables is a nice touch.
Highly recommended
It’s a shame because the physical device and performance is great, but they’ve shot themselves in the foot for a great all round product because the software part is annoying to use and makes the experience annoying.
Very easy to use, good price. Top bit of kit.
Always use Sandisk memory cards and this was on offer so made perfect sense to use their SSD too.
I’d previously purchased a cheaper SSD with very disappointing results. Very hit and miss loading and very slow file transfer. But with this sandisc SSD it’s incredibly easy to use and easy file uploading. I can highly recommend this product.
Brilliant! I’ve got about 20 of them now. Never once had an issue or failure!
Highly recommended.
What’s not to like? Works well with my Mac. Use it to manage and backup my Mac Photo Library. Speed is excellent. It does get warm under load, but that’s to be expected. Wish the provided cable was slightly longer, but that’s being petty.
Just as described feels like real quality in the had, had some weight and feels tough
Great product, simply works as it should. fast. Very tough, i have accidentally knocked it a few times with no problems at all.
I use this as a backup disk for my MacBook Pro. Backups that used to take over an hour with a mechanical external drive now take less than 15 minutes.
A friend had this and just before a project recommended it so I got one, and I currently am editing a project from it. So small and handy. I chose the slower speed and haven’t had any issues with speed at all.
This SSD is pretty amazing. I had the previous generation 500GB Sandisk version, which is surprisingly twice as big. So this drive is half as small AND twice the capacity HALF the weight. This drive is tiny and light. So what prompted me to write a review is this experience. I have found that when using Android file transfer on my aging MBP 2013 to clear my phone device memory ie. photos and video clips from phone to hard drive this is normally a very slow and tricky process. Only upon introducing an SSD, the aforementioned 500gb drive, did the process become easier to manage and I did not experience the app crashing every other attempt. In fact before my process was to copy the files in batches no bigger than 500mb at a time. You can just imagine how long it will take to copy 55.89 GB at this rate!! It is a real pain. Virtually impossible without an SSD. On to the AMAZING part of my review. Well I have just copied 55.89GB of data from my Android phone TO this SSD drive in ONE drag and drop and taking just 30 to 35 or so minutes to complete. The data rate was phenomenal, the numbers and megabytes were absolutely crazy, running almost akin PER SECOND to the rate at which Jeff Bezos makes on this website. I can only imagine how useful this will be when I start editing 4k video or something that needs this level of performance. I am likely to buy another drive very soon! No regrets for me.
Have been dying to get one.
So slim and efficient and has password too
+ Super lightweight
+ Does what it’s advertised to do without any hiccups.
– Full plastic build. It’s sturdy but would be nice to see metal casing.
Odd claim I know but I’ve often used my macbook with an external HDD plugged in which I work from. So not only is the SSD significantly smaller profile more travel friendly than a HDD. It’s faster so my video workflow has sped up considerably since using the SSD. Also very energy efficient it’s pulling less power from my Mac then my previous drive so I’ve longer life from laptop battery when working with this drive over the other. Well worth the purchase especially in the saleS
The size of this surprised me. It’s smaller than my iPhone XS and lighter then every external I’ve purchased before. The box comes with a usb adapter so you don’t have to worry about not having a USB slot.
The size of the system annoyed me a little because the capacity it comes with is 3.63TB I was expecting closer to 4T, maybe not exact but close enough to it.
The cable it comes with is incredibly short so if you need it to reach a distance that’s longer than your finger, I’d buy a separate longer cable.
Need to format the SSD first so that the cluster allocation unit can be minimized.
That’s the best drive to save my files and work with. Besides this, it’s small and easy to carry.
Everything about it is great, size physically and storage-wise, being able to transfer and backup everything I have on an old laptop.
NOTE: One thing though, it will ONLY transfer as fast as the system it’s transferring DATA from.
Have been editing 4k videos via Adobe Premiere and After Effects both on my desktop (via USB 3.0) and from my laptop (USBC), cannot fault it at all in these past 6 months, working well with minimal to no lag at all.
Very portable and really fast read and write speeds. Yea you can probably get cheaper however I’m really happy with it. Feels well made and like it would take a few bumps (wouldn’t go throwing it down the stairs though..)
A bit on the pricey side but being a photographer and videographer I needed a hard drive with fast read and write speeds to work efficient. This gives out the speeds it says on the box and I can’t fault this at all
I wanted a fast usb drive to run linux from. So speed was highest prioriy. This is perfect very fast also lots of storage. Allows the computer to boot fast over usb 3. Perfect for what I wanted. Only concern is as it is being used with usb-c connector. Not quite as robust as the old usb-a connectors. But thats not an issue with the drive.
The drive itself is small (100 x 50 x 8 mm), lightweight, highly portable but has a feeling of quality about it. I have to say that the whole process was trouble free and dare I say easy to complete. I am really pleased with this purchase.
Edit – If you want to format the drive for Mac using APFS OR Mac OS Extended simply plug the drive in to your computer and select Disk Utility. Click erase and the format you require and you’re done.
The replacement arrived and I started playing around with it.
It came formatted with ExFAT, as well, so be aware, if your device doesn’t support ExFAT, you just need to format it to something that can read it.
I got speeds faster than advertised, 1086MBps read (vs 1050MBps advertised) and 1038MBps write (vs 1000MBps advertised).
There was 1.81TiB of usable space on the 2TB version I purchased, which is absolutely expected and not false advertising as some of the comments suggest. (A quick note to those people, a TB is not the same as a TiB. The 2TB version is 2TB, which is ~1.81TiB, what it shows in the OS, albeit falsely labeled in Windows).
The leaflet suggests I can update the firmware on it, and should do that when I get it, however I am unable to find anything on the website about this and I assume it should be fine. It says it has hardware encryption capabilities, which uses the software provided but I never trust that stuff. I just formatted it to EXT4 in Linux (My OS of choice) and used Veracrypt, which you can use in Windows (and MacOS, I think), to encrypt my drive with FDE (Full Disk Encryption).
The drive is extremely responsive and I was able to fill it up with my files, and was able to read them all afterwards. It should be noted that whilst the first one got hot during operations, the second one seemed to run quite cool. I’m not sure why this is and I’m not going to complain either.
It seems to be quite solidly built and I do recommend it if you want to store lots of things, but it may be more expensive than a hard drive or the equivalent in M.2/NVMe. I got mine during Prime Day so it was quite cheap.
All in all I highly recommend it. It’s a solid drive and time will tell if it’s reliable. I will update this after a year or so.
Portability was a big factor, and hoping it would work with iphone (since there isn’t a lot of info on it)
The ssd itself works well however max transfer speed I’ve seen so far is approx 270 MB/S on magicbook pro using default hardware, nonetheless faster than my other HDD’s. I have noticed it heat up a lot in use, more than the 500gb version. In terms of wire / usb-c port connection, it feels a little flimsy and weak. The ssd has a front patterned surface and a rubber back both of which seem to attract dust.
Now onto iphone connection…I have tried both the 1TB and 500GB versions (with the supplied usb-c to usb adapter), both work with iphone (12 mini) via a genuine Apple Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter (make sure adapter is original as fake / defective wires have given me an unpredictable intermittent connection). In my experience the 1TB ssd loaded faster than 500GB on iphone.
Now Iphone allows you to view ssd contents BUT as soon you start saving iphone files onto it or tinkering with the ssd’s data you get the infamous ‘This accessory requires too much power’ sign. Even if you re-connect the ssd, once the sign appears once it keeps coming back. What worked to reverse it for me was actually connecting it to a laptop and deleting the iphone files saved on the ssd or the folders where data was altered. Another option is to scan for errors (whilst plugged into the computer), even if there are no errors I found that often the ssd starts working without needing ‘extra power’. Another option to try, this has given mixed results tbh is to connect the ssd to iphone whilst it is switched off then turn it back on and see if the sign reappears.
If you definitely want 2-way iphone-ssd use then you will need a power hub to power the hardrive (and also bypass the ‘…requires too much power’ message, or if none of the above options work to get rid of the message). I bought the ‘…RSHTECH 5 Port USB 3 Hub with 4 USB 3.0 Data Port + 1 Fast Charging Port Portable USB Splitter with 12V/2A…’ because it provided more power i.e 24W compared to similarly priced 5-port power hubs – so far so good! As a bonus iphone was able to read both ssds (1TB + 500gb) at once when plugged into the power hub.
In terms of folder load time there was no difference for me using a power hub vs none. I didn’t notice a difference in performance or predictability between an old iphone lightning cable vs latest lightning to usb-c cable. I have tried iphone (with ssd connected) plugged into a usb wall socket vs plugged into an apple 30w adapter, again no obv difference.
Another point to mention, with big folders around 90gb (raw files/4k videos) my iphone struggled to read the content despite loading for 20+ mins? The successful cut off for me has been around 65gb folder size max, anything larger definitely gets divided into smaller folders. I did notice some large 4k videos load slowly and freeze midway, but the ssd did let me save them directly on my iphone despite this so was able to view them better that way.
My Sandisk ssd-iphone experience so far (in summary):
Option 1 – viewing/saving ssd content on iphone -> no power hub required
Option 2 – deleting/altering ssd content and/or saving iphone content onto ssd -> power hub required
Hope that helps, I struggled A LOT to find info on iphone sandisk ssd connection so thought I’d share all of my recent findings.
On a sep note – the ssds worked absolutely fine with ipad Air 4th gen utilising it’s usb-c port so no adapter required. Literally a case of plug and play – and definitely a lot faster than on iphone.