An extensive collection of hands-on, no-nonsense reviews on portable drives — external storage devices that connect to a host via USB or Thunderbolt standards. Hint: You can’t have fast speed via USB 2.0.
Western Digital’s second go at super-fast portable SSD, the SanDisk Extreme PRO, is not to be taken lightly. It’s the first in the SanDisk Extreme family (including the PRO and non-PRO lineups) to support the venerable USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20Gbps) standard. As such, it’s a direct replacement for the …
The 2020 SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD is a clear improvement over the previous 2018 model. While sharing the same name and design, on the inside, it’s a new drive entirely with more features and much faster performance. Considering the drive’s support for USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps), which is getting …
The latest SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD, first announced late last year, is the souped-up version of the non-PRO drive that came out a year earlier. Despite supporting the same USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) standard, it manages to be much faster. But other than that and the slightly …
The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD is indeed quite extreme. First, it’s incredibly speedy and compact — even faster and more compact than the already super-fast and -small WD My Passport SSD, or the Samsung T5, for that matter. And at an average cost of just $0.27 per gigabyte, it’s also more …
