SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD's: 1TB $160 or 2TB $310 + free s/h & More

Redmont

Feb 23, 2021

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So for $85 you can get a decent 1TB NVMe and for $25 you can get a decent external USB C case for it and have the same thing as this $160 external drive except for the "rugged" case. Is there anything else (other than the rugged case) that this external drive has that the combination I have described does not have? That is not a rhetorical question — if there is something else I'd be interested to know —but the speed recited in the listing does not suggest that there is any other advantage. If you need the rugged case and it is worth almost 50% premium then this could be a good deal for you . For me keeping the combination I have described in my laptop backpack is just as good an alternative for about $50 less.

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metaldood

Feb 23, 2021

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metaldood

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Quote from Redmont

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So for $85 you can get a decent 1TB NVMe and for $25 you can get a decent external USB C case for it and have the same thing as this $160 external drive except for the "rugged" case. Is there anything else (other than the rugged case) that this external drive has that the combination I have described does not have? That is not a rhetorical question — if there is something else I'd be interested to know —but the speed recited in the listing does not suggest that there is any other advantage. If you need the rugged case and it is worth almost 50% premium then this could be a good deal for you . For me keeping the combination I have described in my laptop backpack is just as good an alternative for about $50 less.

The "decent external USB-C" case sometimes does not provide the rated speeds and/or the connection is flaky as the case is using a NVME-USB-C bridge controller.

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Redmont

Feb 24, 2021

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Redmont

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Quote from metaldood

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The "decent external USB-C" case sometimes does not provide the rated speeds and/or the connection is flaky as the case is using a NVME-USB-C bridge controller.

agreed but my no name $25 external case with my old Intel NVMe 500 gb tests just as fast and sometimes faster than the stats on this external device . While my old Intel NVMe is a decent drive that served me well as my main C drive until I upgraded to Samusung - it is no speed demon. So my point is that the proof is in the pudding - or in this case the speed tests. A mediocre NVMe in a no name case can match these same read speeds so a modern $85 NVMe drive probably would do even better

jomeyq

Feb 24, 2021

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jomeyq

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Quote from metaldood

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The "decent external USB-C" case sometimes does not provide the rated speeds and/or the connection is flaky as the case is using a NVME-USB-C bridge controller.

I think that's why the qualifier "decent" is used here. There are certainly bad options out there, but you can easily get something faster than this sandisk SSD too, including ones that support 20gbps via USB 3.2 gen 2x2. There is a newer version of this SanDisk ssd that supports 20gbps, but this sale is on the older 10gbps model.

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