This is one of many reasons why I like EC channel content so much. All data/infos/details perfectly packed in excellent produced video. Now I can go straight to buy one of this. And if I need something constantly, that is definitely additional storage. Hello Chris! 👋🏻 Excellent video! 👌🏻

Another good real time review of a new device. Always a pleasure watching your videos.

Thank you for another video showing how far SSD drives have come in such a short time.

I like that they go so far as to give you both types of USB cables.

Thank you for the SanDisk review and thank you for your reply last week with encouraging opinions on the future of 32-bit Raspbian.

Thanks for an excellent review of SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD. Your reviews do an excellent job of explaining the pros and cons of the device (or software), which in turn, provide your audience with sound purchasing advice. Keep up the good work.

Perfect video for comparing to other options. I think other manufacturers should send you their products so you can show us how well they work.

Do I need this product... No.... Do I watch the whole video... Yes. Thanks for the video :)

It is just amazing to see the development of storage. My first drive was a Microscience 20 Meg half hight at the low price of AUD 850 and I thought I would never fill it up. Back in the 1980's

Computer user in 2025: How did they ever manage with only 500 gigabyte drives? Computer user in 1985: What's a 'gigabyte'?

i would love to have one of these at some point but I love Explaining Computers so much

Sir, I love your gentle and honest reviews. Especially, you say d you don't do paid review. From India. Your Fan

always the most concise reviews

i bought one last year on black friday sales, very pleased with it, hoping they do it again in 2 weeks time.

Another top notch video Christopher, concise and to the point.

Cant be de first! KZfaq’s notification lag guilt. Congrats Chris. Please make a review of Nextcloud performance under different SBCs. Thank you so much for such an interesting channel you’ve got!

I bought this drive today but not the pro; the same contents are in the Extreme Portable 500GB SSD as the Pro, fyi. Thank you for the links to speed test and the walkthrough of transfering files, that really helped me.

Love your work Chris and that is some awesome piece of kit

Stanley the knife showed up on his day off.

While all phone and laptop reviews seem boring to me, this man can make an SSD review interesting!

just what i needed thanks for uploading :D

Nice little ssd professor Christopher thanks for sharing the experience with us

Impressive drive! Looking forward to your next video!

I have been using an NVME drive in a housing for some time now... the blistering speed astonishes me to this day, even after a year of using it.

Late afternoon relaxing and educational entertainment once more. My humble Appreciation!

Thanks teacher! For more one state of art explanation!

Thanks for the update, information extremely useful

Hi Chris. Great video. I would opt for the extra speed as long as it didn't shorten the life expectancy of the data and/or the drive. I was a little disappointed to not see the speed comparison that you did with the 1,2,4 level of transistors ( sorry but I'm feeling a bit under the weather ) that you did a few weeks ago where you illustrated the difference between life expectancy, drive life and speed that you did so well on an earlier installment. Overall, still very good. Stay well. Cheers.

Thanks for another great video Chris.

Always great informative videos .great work.much love xo.

You make very good videos buddy.Keepon the good work.

Yet one more dose of Informative Brain Food. Thank You Sir. Coffee and Beer Spill Survivable is always a plus . Dang a actual decent , practical form factor is cool too.

Thumbs up! Great video, Chris!

Great video as always, but as a general rule, I would avoid the use of encryption software that required me to accept a license agreement and didn't have community-reviewable and modifiable source code.

Thanks Chris for another great video:)

Interesting product. I do not own one, but while between builds on my main system, I used a Riitop enclosure with USB 3.1 Type C support for my Corsair MP510 NVMe drive and got similar speeds. Since my new MB arrived, the Corsair is now installed directly to it, and the enclosure is empty.

Great real world review 👍.

Excellent review.

Nice one Chris, I had no idea that SanDisk were owned by Western Digital, I havent used WD drives in any builds since 2001, nor recommended them to other users, thankfully the only SanDisks cards now in operation are in a tablet and phone (I shall not buy SanDisk again) last one I bought was a kingston.

I love your videos so much..so detailed

Need to test this transferring from phone to drive. This would be handy to transfer video files to.

Morning Chris!! Good video.

Thank you for the "thorough" review.

Thanks for the video.

Excellent Drives, I myself Have the non Pro (500 Mbps) version, and use it to bring my games over to my friends for LAN party's so no one has to hog all the bandwidth downloading the games we want to play that they may not have . I will say that it IS very Durable, its been dropped and rained on, I actually have it on a key ring. Excellent Video, you always explain products very well!. Have you done a video on "Ram Drives" Yet? if not I think that would be a very nice topic if you have the time. Thank you!

Excellent review

I still remember my first work PC (an IBM XT) back in the late 80's that required entering the cylinders, sectors and heads into the BIOS to get it to be usable on the 10MB 5.25" hard disk that took up two bays in height. Then you had to format it correctly too. Fun times, with no autodetection. We'll soon have petabyte drives, especially with the advent of 8k video.

Ty...great information!

I would love to see you inspect some nice tape drives greater than LTO-3 and compare them in terms of durability as well as the overall quality/longevity vs price factor when it comes to alternatives like the SSDs or HDDs because from what i can tell nothing comes close to the current tape drive tech.

Loving the videos. More please , you’ve turned me in to EC junkie!

Great review. Need for speed. Backup can take lots of time.

would be nice to know power consumption of these external nvme and ssd drives, to know what would be more efficient with SBC:s and laptop battery life

2:25 The most satisfying "aha" I've ever heard, I am dead hahahahahahahahaha

I love this man

Great review! I love WD products. They've always made great hard drives. It's nice for them to have Sandisk for their SSD line! Sandisk is a trusted name for all your storage needs!

I see all kinds of interesting software on your desktop that needs demo'ing. :)

I like Sandisk, never had a problem with their products

7:33 "the samsung pro"... oops... :D

A nice multi boot (W10/Linux) + portable apps utilities video with Yumi or similar and one of these SSD's would be appreciated Chris.:-)

at 7:31 it's curious that the 4KiB Q32T1 result (third one down) came out twice as fast on the slower USB interface.

Does anyone else thumbs-up EC videos before they watch them?

I have problem with it when setting up Secure Access because I clicked on "check update" it goes straight to password.. while I haven't set up one yet. How can I go back to beginning? 😕

Several months ago, I bought a NVME 1TB drive and put it in an external case from Amazon. I paid like $100 for the drive and like $20 for the case. It had both USB C and USB 3 cables in the box. It is by far the fastest external drive I have used to date. It gets hot when coping a lot of data to it but I didn't notice a slow down or anything. Well worth the $130 or so I have in it.

I'd be afraid of the rubber coating getting sticky after a few years and coming off.

For on-location backup looks great.

Great video. That's a nice storage device. Great to have USB 3.1. I hope SBC's will quickly support it. I'm waiting on news of new SBC's with newer SOC's. I just ordered a new ssd and a sandisk extreme 128GB sd card. The ssd is 24euro and 240GB. And 30euro for 128GB sd card, should have read speed up to 160MB/s. Incredible how quickly the prices have dropped. I still need to receive them to test that everything is what is told. I do trust the seller. Also got the Samsung Bar Plus that I reviewed. Good read speed, slow write speed. I also have the NVIDIA Jetson Nano on the way. I really wanted to review it, but it's too expensive to buy just for review. I've now gotten it from a Belgian seller(Antratek). I'm extremely happy. Hard to get contact with NVIDIA for me. Tomorrow it'll arrive. I'll now record a video about zram and swap files, how to create and use them. Thank you for the great info. First time I see USB 3.1 in action. Benchmarks indeed are rarely real life performance. Greetings

`Nice too know it is there in case i need one in the future.

I'm guess the difference between the synthetic test and real world test is that there will be a small amount of very fast SLC on the drive and the benchmark could be hitting that? It also appears that the USB to NVMe chip is only using 2 PCIe lanes - to go faster you'd need Thunderbolt 3 and it's direct 4 PCIe lanes

This is great! I will buy one to replace a 500gb drive I use with my sony Blu-Ray player. I have over 300 movies and television series on a seagate 500gb drive. Even though the player is only usb 2.0 it will still work and the speed of the access of the drive will be awesome. PS - I have made an image of the drive using Clonezilla. This will be fun! Thanks Chris.

I put a cheap 500gb sata disk in a USB enclosure. Works good enough but can be slow at times. Then my computer has USB 3.0. There are good reasons this might be better for professional use, especially multimedia/ video. Interesting and useful video review.

Great job, dude! Best video review... Connect Android yes or not ( smartphone or tablet ) OTG transfer USB type C ?!

Why not try some SSD enclosures? I bought two different types, an M.2 format and a 2.5 inch format after I upgraded the two drives in my laptop. The great thing about them is that they can breathe new life into old drives.

Hmm, I use Samsung SSD in a $8 USB case and get similar throughput speeds. Still, I like the smallish size, so will likely buy one! Thanks for the excellent review!

I wanted to know if the sandisk secure software could work directly with ms office products to save encrypted files? And another question, how easy would it be to unsecure those files for sharing with other people?

At about $130 (500GB) Canadian it’s not that expensive for what it offers. I have always had good luck with this manufacturer. I use there Hi capacity SD cards in all of my Raspberry Pi’s and Cameras. Great review.

I would like to see pcie drive slots on computers, especially on laptops, where the drive can be pushed in and pulled out like SD cards. Being able to have a quick change drive like that would be awesome for having multiple OS's or configurations on one system without the need to setup multi-boot.

6:44 "I have now connected the Samsung PRO to my test rig" when you like so much Samsung :D

this disk is amazing equipment

I was looking at these two ext drives (SanDisk SATA and Pro) a month or so ago. at that time in the US, Amazon was only selling the NON pro SATA version and new egg was only selling the Pro version, for a higher price. neither site mentioned the existence of the other model and I wondered how many people didn't notice the difference or ordered the wrong model. I was considering making a multi drive home server using these but I became concerned with the possibility of thermal throttling so I found out amazon sells m.2 cases with integrated heat synchs which accept m.2 NVMe drives. I doubt they work as well in a dusty or wet environment but that would be a trade I personally would be willing to make as I am more desktop and large file oriented oriented. although I have become aware of the micro USB dust plugs which I'd probably loose immediately, but you can buy a bunch of them for a low cost. unlike the spinning drives which can use an additional AC electrical power connection for the more robust desktop version (as opposed to the laptop version), there is apparently no need and no way to supply additional power for the m.2 NVMe SSDs, used externally in a desktop environment setting.

I obtained the same performance from a USB to PCIE adapter (based on JMicron JMS583) and intel 660p 1T NVME for around $100

BTW - with 1) a powered hub 2) an Apple lightning camera device 3) iOS13 you can access files on the Sandisk on your phone / iPad

£127 seems to be expensive since you can get Samsung 970 EVO Plus for £90 and some random nvme to usb enclosure for £20(or £30)

He’s using it for his hit productions!

I have a bunch of old SATA hard drives I use for backup. But I’m not worried about speed.

Wow, that's one great way to design an external storage device.

I wonder if TeraCopy would be quicker at copying the 8 Gigs of files

EC, you mentioned in one of the previous Video’s, that SSDs needs once and while power to keep the data. Any idea, how often that is that the case to keep your data safe.

let's go and take ... a closer look

I really enjoy the way you explain computer hardware. Can You please make a video about MINI PCs like ACEPC AK2 Mini PC Intel Celeron J3455. Thanks in advance for your help. Muchas gracias por su ayuda

2:25 Worst Alan Partridge impression ever, good video though 😁

Is there a SBC with dual M2 for SSD's? I've had 4 SSD's fail on me so far in my lifetime. I'd like to build a micro-NAS / Git server for storing critical data with RAID-1 for the M2's.

This is basically a standard NVME stick inside of a NVME PCI-E to USB case. You can remove the SSD from the case (from what I found online, it's just clipped together) and use it internally if you want. If you don't care about branding, you can always get a NVME case and SSD separately. That way, you can use the SSD both internally and externally without voiding your warranty. @11:09: That's just a rebranded version of EncryptStick, which is a proprietary piece of software. I would advise against using any encryption-related software without auditable source code available. Can't be too paranoid when it comes to encryption.

I wonder whether the speeds on the test rig were limited by the USB card connection to the system in some way. How many PCIe lanes, the speed, whether they go through the chipset or direct to the CPU, etc.

Thanks for the video! Any thoughts on the USB3.2 version of this?

Think I'll get the Pro version as I have USB 3.1 ports...Thank you.

Nice one

This is still very very fast indeed, wow.

I think Stanley the knife should get an episode of his own!

Basically this type of Drive is what we all need Robust and Speed

I use a Windows-7 laptop, and every 3 to 6 months I simply re-install a computer IMAGE of the entire computer's hard drive, to literally 'turn-back time' so that the computer is back to a time where it was running normally and fast, without the slow errors it has that builds up over time. The problem is = doing that erases all user data on the hard drive. So my solution is to keep ALL user data on an external hard drive that is plugged into the USB port on the computer. I also use PORTABLE versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Waterfox, and keep those portable browsers on that external hard drive also. I used to use just a regular 500 GB external hard drive but when running off of batteries at an airport, the extra power draw of the second hard drive would quickly drain down the battery. Plus if you drop that hard drive then all data would be gone. So 5 years ago I bought a 480 GB version of that SanDisk drive as an experiment and I've been using it ever since, and it has been amazingly good! I've dropped it hundreds of times and no damage, no data loss. In the same time, I've had 3 other regular external hard drives fail for one reason or another. That 500 GB drive is an updated design on the old trusty one that I love so much. For anyone who needs an external hard drive, I suggest getting one of these and forget about the rest.