Sandisk, formerly SanDisk, is a US storage vendor with a focus on NAND flash, including SSDs, memory cards and more.
Looking for some new portable SSDs that are super familiar? Sandisk has something that might pique your interest. The newly independent flash storage maker today announced its next-generation flagship portable SSDs, including the SANDISK, the SANDISK Extreme, and the SANDISK Extreme PRO. If the names ring a bell, that’s because …
Sandisk today unveiled “SANDISK Optimus” at CES 2026 as the new brand name for its popular consumer-grade internal SSDs made for gamers, creators, and professionals. Previously, these storage devices were part of the WD Black and WD Blue lineups. This development only makes sense considering that Sandisk parted from Western …
The Sandisk Extreme Fit USB-C Flash Drive, first announced on November 4, 2025, is quite unlike any thumb drive you’ve seen because it’s not a thumb drive at all. Instead, it takes the shape of a button, and it’s as cute as one. Despite its small physical size, it can …
The WD Blue SN5100 is a special NVMe, not because it features PCIe Gen 5 (it doesn’t) or because it is designed to be the fastest on the market. Rather, it’s the first in the WD Blue mainstream NVMe lineup—started with the SN500—since Western Digital split off Sandisk as a …
The SanDisk Creator Phone SSD, part of the new SanDisk Creator Series unveiled at the beginning of the year, is an excellent add-on storage device for those with a USB-C-based smartphone who want to shoot a lot of 4K videos. For others, it’s a simple backup drive. Here’s the bottom …
When announcing the WD Black SN8100 on May 13, Sandisk claimed the drive to be the “world’s fastest” NVMe SSD. I thought it was marketing as usual. As it turned out, Sandisk didn’t lie. The internal drive indeed proved to be the fastest in my testing, as you’ll see in …
The Extreme Pro with USB4 is SanDisk’s first major portable SSD since the split-off from Western Digital. It’s a clear upgrade from the previous 2020 Extreme Pro. As the name suggests, the new drive is one of a few portable SSDs that feature USB4. It is the second I’ve tested …
Western Digital today unveiled five new external storage devices, all based on its latest 26TB “enterprise-class Ultrastar 7200 RPM HDDs for high performance, reliability, and fast read/write speeds.” These new devices are massive in storage space, yet more significant is that they are the first following the company’s decision to …
Sometimes, looks matter. A lot. Case in point is the all-new SanDisk Creator lineup that SanDisk showcased at CES 2025. The new series includes mostly existing portable storage devices—portable SSDs, microSDs, SD cards, and more—but in a completely new outfit. It is mainly blue but with a gradient hue of …
The headline says it. Western Digital’s new SanDisk Desk Drive, unveiled back on May 7, is highly compact for a desktop storage device. But if you look at it from a portable drive point of view, it can be bulky. There’s one thing that can’t be disputed: it’s one of …
