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Pros & Cons
Pros
The drive fits nicely into all my usb-c ports. The transfer rate is excellent and performs quite a bit better than my old 500gb usb ssd drive connected to the same usb c port. The only downside to this product is it gets very hot.
Connected seemlessly with my pc. Only issue is it doesn't work as expected with iphone 15. You need to enable developer mode, then turn on a setting that allows the external drive to connect. For those who don't have usb c it also has an old-style usb... Read More
Cons
The speed of reading and copying files is exceptionally slow. Read and write appear to be slow. Copying large files it starts out really fast (~400mb/s), then stalls, then picks up slower.
I'm not sure if it's this vendor, or these 1 tb sandisk drives in general that are using the defective chips. Tried to move 100gb to it. We switched to a crucial x6 which is fine.
Highlights
Quality
I liked the small size, the speed (400 version), the 1tb capacity, but upon formatting it the drive got so hot i almost couldn’... Read More
Unit will not copy & store computer image files in spite of it's size of 1tera
Literally gets super hot, but works as intended.
But as many folks know, heat is not the friend of electronics and i likely will be leery of relying on this drive too much for ... Read More
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- This product had a total of 17,089 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 17 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I liked the small size the speed 400 version the 1tb capacity but upon formatting it the drive got so hot i almost couldn’t hold it to remove it from my mbp
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Also very slow to eject i’ve had to force eject it more times than not
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But as many folks know heat is not the friend of electronics and i likely will be leery of relying on this drive too much for critical data until i see how it holds up over time
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Unit will not copy store computer image files in spite of its size of 1tera
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Literally gets super hot but works as intended
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I disconnect it as soon as the files load
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