YMMV on this. Went to a local walmart to see about the Crucial 500gb external SSD, but they were out. Looked around and found these for $11.47. Reviews are actually pretty decent, and it looks like it contains an actual mSATA inside if you wanted to crack it and use it as an internal drive.
Brickseek didn't show them in stock at all at the store I was in, but here's the BS link anyway:
https://brickseek.com/walmart-inv...=224316039
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Emtec-.../224316039
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I'll let others grab this deal; happy hunting
Also, did you find yours was shuckable? (Apparently, same model with 512GB capacity was found to be shuckable in 2019, but design may have changed since then...)
Also, did you find yours was shuckable? (Apparently, same model with 512GB capacity was found to be shuckable in 2019, but design may have changed since then...)
I used a "guitar pick" spudger. Mine was not shuckable, it was an integrated board. My guess is the design has changed. My write performance tests suggested a 500mbps ish transfer speed and after sustained use dropped to 300ish in sequential testing. I didn't test a full capacity write, didn't have the patience. It's fine for a general purpose jump drive or for projects, just over usbc/usb3 not msata
The clips are around the perimeter, I don't remember there were several. You just have to work your way around and they're very tight permanent snap features.
The clips are around the perimeter, I don't remember there were several. You just have to work your way around and they're very tight permanent snap features.
No spudger handy, but combination of utility knife, credit card, and jeweler screwdriver did it with very minimal damage. Three clips on each long side, two per short, but once it was partially open, it was easy.
Integrated USB-C, not shuckable.
Silly, the PCB is only about 40 percent of area of case, and maybe 30-40 percent as thick. They should have made housing MUCH smaller.
I purchased five of these for main purpose of replacing two dead HDs in pretty recent PCs (both year-2017 Dells with OEM WDs, I believe). Got the Emtecs for good price ($10/ea) so may keep anyway... (Tried to pick one w lowest serial number to open, but numbers not exactly sequential.)
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238GB actual free space. It actually benchmarks fairly decently, better than any regular USB stick drives: 317 MB/s Read / 291 MB/s Write
EMTEC X200 256GB USB external SSD
https://imgur.com/gallery/lKMqxsK