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 2020 SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD is not to be taken lightly. It’s the first in the SanDisk Extreme family (including the PRO and non-PRO lineups) that supports the venerable USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 USB standard with a cap speed of 20Gbps. That, plus using an NVMe SSD …
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 affordable. What’s …
