Review SanDisk Desk Drive Desktop SSD (8TB) review: Desk-bound backup makes a solid-state comeback

[Admin]

SanDisk's Desk Drive is a solid-state take on old-school external backup. It comes in 4TB and 8TB capacities, delivers good performance for a 10 Gbps SSD, and costs a lot more than an external hard drive.

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[NedSmelly]

In this day and age of 100W USB-C PD... this is truly baffling.

(It's an 18W power brick)

 

[endocine]

In this day and age of 100W USB-C PD... this is truly baffling.

(It's an 18W power brick)

Yup, this one is a head scratcher for sure, and a real miss it wasn't USB4/TB. The 8TB is $700.....

Also, any chance we could get a tear down, and know what kind of flash lies within? QLC likely, or something else? Couldn't find wear ratings on the WD site for this device.

Also, its a really plain and rather boring looking thing, looks cheap plastic.

 

[NedSmelly]

Also, any chance we could get a tear down, and know what kind of flash lies within? QLC likely, or something else? Couldn't find wear ratings on the WD site for this device.

There's a teardown in the link I added to post above. If you translate it from Dutch you'll find it says: "the Desk Drive contains no less than two SSDs that are technically comparable to the sold WD Black SN850X SSDs."

Also:" the 1TB flash chips with the print-in 006778-1T00 appeared in external Extreme Pro SSDs, according to the internet. Each of the two SSDs has a dram chip with the print K4AAG165WA-BCTD, which is a DDR4 chip from Samsung with a capacity of 2GB."

 

[dmitche31958]

This got me laughing. "...desk-bound plug-in data repository for irreplaceable files...". While this is a nice advertisement by Tom's, no one would rely on using an SSD drive for irreplaceable files. Until the safety of this drive is proven when it comes to power losses and data retention I'll be more than happy to know that my backup hard drives are still the best option, even if they may be slower. Insuring that my backups remain viable is far more important than speed.

 

[parkerthon]

In this day and age of 100W USB-C PD... this is truly baffling.

(It's an 18W power brick)

Bare minimum, make that plug a usb-c brick.

This got me laughing. "...desk-bound plug-in data repository for irreplaceable files...". While this is a nice advertisement by Tom's, no one would rely on using an SSD drive for irreplaceable files. Until the safety of this drive is proven when it comes to power losses and data retention I'll be more than happy to know that my backup hard drives are still the best option, even if they may be slower. Insuring that my backups remain viable is far more important than speed.

If it’s that critical, you really should be running a UPS. In which case a sudden power loss or surge isn’t a big risk. When SSDs die though, they are not recoverable. That said I’ve been running many consumer grade SSDs for a decade and never had one fail. I still back up to disk though because it’s cheap and I don’t need speed.

I could see this maybe being used a fast archive/expansion drive for video editors. But backups? Nah.

 

[dmitche31958]

Bare minimum, make that plug a usb-c brick.

If it’s that critical, you really should be running a UPS. In which case a sudden power loss or surge isn’t a big risk. When SSDs die though, they are not recoverable. That said I’ve been running many consumer grade SSDs for a decade and never had one fail. I still back up to disk though because it’s cheap and I don’t need speed.

I could see this maybe being used a fast archive/expansion drive for video editors. But backups? Nah.

I agree about running your SSDs with a UPS or a laptop with a reliable battery. I have lost an SSD drive while using an UPS. I have six UPS's in my house for my TVs and computers. The problem is the computer crashing, as in having to power it off or hit the reset button in my case. When the price comes down a bit I'll buy one of these for an online video server that I run but I'll keep my three-backup HDD system in place.