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I like to use this drive as a removable boot drive. I install Ubuntu Linux along with all the apps I need for work and I have a backup system that will work in almost any computer. In the Linux "disks" utility this drive reports 1000MBps, very good.

An interesting package addressed to me appears at my door once or twice a month. I have no idea what is in the package until I open it and fortunately then I remember ordering the item. Something different happened to me a few days ago. I cut open a mystery padded envelope and found a wee SanDisk portable SSD. I was further delighted when I noticed the drive had a massive one Terabyte capacity. It was less than half the size and a fraction of the weight of a mechanical external USB drive thanks to its M.2 SSD. Cool, I thought; I guessed I might have ordered this late at night and forgotten about it. I soon realized my mystery package was a SanDisk SSD External drive I had volunteered to test for Newegg. YES! I plugged the SSD into my tower using the provided USB-C (external drive end) to the USB Type-A (backward compatible to any standard USB port.) It was instantly recognized. I copied a 2 Gb file from my tower internal SSD to the SanDisk portable SSD external drive, to test the real-world speed of the drive. Compared to the advertised up to 500 MB per second it transferred data at about 120 MB per second, which was about 3X faster than copying the same data to my older external mechanical Samsung external drive. This was a little slower than I anticipated since SSDs generally run from 4 to 10 times faster than a mechanical drive. I should note that my towers USB is the older 3.1 version, which Im sure was a factor. I suspect my disappointment with the speed of data transferred is the result of USB C to USB A cable. Since I do not have a newer USB C to USB C cable, I could not test that transfer speed. The Vault (see the photos) The Samsung external SSD M.2 drive comes with an ingenious encryption scheme they call PrivateAccess with the encrypting software installed on the drive itself. This software will ONLY run off the external drive, further increasing the security of the device. Transferring data to the external drive is a drag and drop procedure, using the drives built-in encryption software. There is no back door into the vault; as you would expect, if you forget your password. The data in the vault is gone forever.

Works great! It's fast and has plenty of room for all of my music! Bonus is that it is not black so it stands out in the sea of drives on my dest.

This seems to be a quality product from Corsair that's simple, fast, and likely replacing a USB thumb-drive I carry around. It's large and fast enough for me to keep my project files on as I often switch between my desktop and laptop throughout the day (I often use Google Drive to keep things sync'd, but some of my projects the size/amount of lifes/latency isn't feasible). I'm definitely happy with this product and it's built well enough that I'm not worried about needing to replace it anytime soon!

Works fine on my iMac 2017, going through an old Belkin USB-C "hub" (fans out 1 USB-C port to 2, plus a couple other ports). I needed to replace an aging HDD used for my photos and other occassionally-written files.

I got this drive for my iphone and my pc backup. Very, very fast and easy to do.

Small, fast, reliable product

If I could give 10 stars I would. This is so fast for backing my phone. 18GB in no time flat. I am getting another for my wife's phone. No lag time. It just boots and goes zoom

Fast simple to use, can use with USB and C

Great bucket list item to save memories on