TeamGroup PD500 Portable SSD Review

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The Team Group PD500 is lighter than many thumb drives but delivers SSD-like performance.

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[gdmaclew]

I would love to try one of these but they are sold out at Newegg.

 

[berezini]

whats the point in making this thing so light and 'portable' when you have to haul around a USB 3.1 A cable along with it to use it? doesn't make it very portable in this case having pockets full of usb cables which mind you these are not very pliable.

 

[samer.forums]

Two things for external SSD drive makers .

One : Make that NVME to USB3.1 bridge please ? it is about time.

Two : integrate the cable in the case ... stop giving us cheap cables and cheap designs please.

 

[Christopher1]

That one statement rings a little false to me: "The more the flash drive fills up, the less speedy writes are!" or whatever the exact statement was.
I have never seen that. As long as I am not transferring lots of SMALL files to a flash drive (that is a job for a regular mechanical external drive from my experience) the flash drives I have, even the cheapest of the cheap, keep the same write speeds even when almost full.

 

[CRamseyer]

Two things for external SSD drive makers .

One : Make that NVME to USB3.1 bridge please ? it is about time.

Two : integrate the cable in the case ... stop giving us cheap cables and cheap designs please.

I have your portable NVMe sitting on the test bench right now.

 

[CRamseyer]

That one statement rings a little false to me: "The more the flash drive fills up, the less speedy writes are!" or whatever the exact statement was.
I have never seen that. As long as I am not transferring lots of SMALL files to a flash drive (that is a job for a regular mechanical external drive from my experience) the flash drives I have, even the cheapest of the cheap, keep the same write speeds even when almost full.

Nearly every SSD has this issue. It's more noticeable with random writes.

 

[samer.forums]

Two things for external SSD drive makers .

One : Make that NVME to USB3.1 bridge please ? it is about time.

Two : integrate the cable in the case ... stop giving us cheap cables and cheap designs please.

I have your portable NVMe sitting on the test bench right now.

I am waiting !!!!