SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSD Review

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The SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSD is a value-focused external flash-based product for those who need rugged high-speed storage while on the go.

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[elbert]

Whats the point of these if you can buy thumb drives for half the price? Thumb drive capacity match these drives so I see no major advantage. What makes these a better product?

 

[Onus]

Agreed. I don't see blazing speed being a major issue for the target market. Backups are typically scheduled in a more leisurely manner, not "grab and go." I would like to have seen this tested against an internal SSD, for those who might be inclined to use it long term, possibly as primary storage, on a laptop that wouldn't have the room inside for a second drive.

 

[hannibal]

These are more durable than thumb drives...
Also these are great for smart tv storages and offer much better usage esperience than thumb drives that become very slow, when you read, erase, read, erase the material, because in thumb drives there is not any trim utility at all. If you want to have fast thumb drive, you have to format it from time to time.

 

[g-unit1111]

Whats the point of these if you can buy thumb drives for half the price? Thumb drive capacity match these drives so I see no major advantage. What makes these a better product?

I got a review sample of a 1TB Samsung drive that's the same model listed in this article. I was skeptical until I started using it to backup data and on USB 3.0 I can get about a rate of 225 MB/s, where as on USB 2.0 I only get a rate of about 28 MB/s. The higher rates can be extremely useful when you're transferring exceptionally large files and it's definitely a huge improvement over a thumb drive in that regard.

 

[nebun]

such a waste....don't really see the need for something like this

 

[Andress Constantinides]

Nice job SanDisk.

 

[Nuckles_56]

What was going on in the final test, where you were copying the documents across, where the two Sandisk SSDs performed as well as the hard drive did