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WD - My Passport 1TB External USB Type-C Portable Solid State Drive - Space Gray $119 or Blue for $110

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WD 1TB Portable SSD; same price for Sandisk USB C NVME, 1050 MBps
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sand...Id=6427550 NLA



https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-m...&gclsrc=ds Now $119.99 (both colors)
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WD 1TB Portable SSD; same price for Sandisk USB C NVME, 1050 MBps
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sand...Id=6427550 NLA



https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-m...&gclsrc=ds Now $119.99 (both colors)

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Model: WD My Passport 1TB USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C Portable External SSD, Space Gray

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Oct 20, 2021
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Joined Feb 2021
Oct 20, 2021
OrangeMountain1737
Oct 20, 2021
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For gaming external storage, would you go with this or the 1TB SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD?
Oct 20, 2021
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Joined Jul 2014
Oct 20, 2021
bert90987
Oct 20, 2021
2,237 Posts
Quote from OrangeMountain1737 :
For gaming external storage, would you go with this or the 1TB SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD?
It depends on the speed and price. Although I don't think it will matter that much really
Oct 20, 2021
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Oct 20, 2021
Magowin
Oct 20, 2021
1,426 Posts
This drive rules I have 2tb one on my ps5 works great never get any disconnect messages. The other external drive I have Im using a external bay I got and put a nvme in and it disconnects quite a bit so changed to a sata ssd on a usb cable adapter and no issues then. Those nvme external adapters are flaky.
Oct 20, 2021
191 Posts
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Oct 20, 2021
k4m2366
Oct 20, 2021
191 Posts
Quote from Magowin :
This drive rules I have 2tb one on my ps5 works great never get any disconnect messages. The other external drive I have Im using a external bay I got and put a nvme in and it disconnects quite a bit so changed to a sata ssd on a usb cable adapter and no issues then. Those nvme external adapters are flaky.
Do you get similar speeds as the internal drive.
Oct 20, 2021
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Oct 20, 2021
DoobieBrother
Oct 20, 2021
5,416 Posts
Hmm, if you can stack that BB 15% off for trading in storage deal it might make it a heck of a deal..
Oct 20, 2021
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Oct 20, 2021
JumpingJane
Oct 20, 2021
41 Posts
How is this for uploading massive files of videos and photos?
Oct 21, 2021
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Oct 21, 2021
geek37
Oct 21, 2021
1,034 Posts
how's that compared to sandisk? amazon has sandisk for 120 also.

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Oct 22, 2021
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Oct 22, 2021
OmahaJeff
Oct 22, 2021
768 Posts
💡If you are going for a performance, (and I assume that you all are because you're looking at this 1tb SSD drive instead of the 5 TB portable hard drive that's on sale for the same price) for those of you who aren't aware of all your options you might want to go a different route...

Get a pc NVMe drive, which vastly-I mean vastly- outperforms standard sata SSD drives and blows Sata/USB external SSDs like this out of the water. There is a one terabyte drive available on the front page for about $110 (Links below)

Then go to Amazon and buy a NMVe USB (3.1 2nd gen!!) enclosure that has a usb-c connector. They start about $18 and up depending on what extra features you want in the enclosure. (And yes, there are even RGB enclosures, you dorks) (Link below)

Put A into B, then plug the enclosure into an available USBC socket on your computer, format and away you go!

The USB 3.1-2gen(3.2) standard has an upper limit of about 10Gbps. (Some usb-c ports on older PCS might be 3.1, which caps at about 1 GBps.) NVMe drives have a theoretical max speed of 32 GBps, and last time I checked, in real world tests higher-end $ PC NVMe cards can do read/write speeds around 7,000/1,800Mbps and lower end / older NVMe cards range around 3,800/1,200MBps.

By contrast, standard SSD drives using SATA 2/3 interface in a USB enclosure have a maximum theoretical speed of about 300MBps and 600MBps respectively. A high quality SSD, which you can only hope is in this USB portable drive, might have a good read speed of about 450MBps and maybe an optimistic 180MBps write when plugged into that same 10GbPs USB 3.2 port. Everything runs at the speed of the slowest component. Why would you want to buy components that run slow?

see where I'm going here? Spend an extra $20 or $30 and get the same capacity of storage that will be at least 7 times faster than this drive with a budget PC NVMe, and potentially up to 15 times faster with a higher NVMe if you choose to upgrade it. There are several NVMe integrated USB-C drives that you can buy, but almost all of them run at much slower speeds of around 800-1,400MBps. Unfortunately the models that do run at the higher throughputs are Waaaay above this price range ($300+)

Also, NVNe drives are MUCH more tolerant of high temperatures than standard ssd drives and that will help with reliability over time. If you ever had a USB portable SSD drive, you know that they get HOT if you write to them constantly for more than a few minutes at a time.

If you have a USB-c connector built into your PC or laptop then this should absolutely be a viable option for you. Even if you have a older PC and don't have a USB c connector built in, you can still use a data/power USB C-to-A adapter and use this on virtually any USB port, as the speed will only be limited by the slowest component, probably your computer! I regularly connect my usb-c enclosure to my cell phone and use it to transfer photos videos and movies back and forth. It reads / writes faster than the maximum speed of my phone and SD card, and so is able to transfer the files in the shortest time possible for my device.

That is the real goal, to have data storage that can manage and serve data as fast as your computer can utilize it. Historically data storage has always been the slowest operation in a computer and it prevented you from using the maximum power of your computer because all of the other components are idling while waiting on the hard drive to read or write data. When you remove that bottleneck, you'd be amazed how much faster your computer will run.

My last computer is a bit older and does not have a NVMe socket on the motherboard, but using an external enclosure connected to a 3.1 usb-c port I was able to use it as my boot drive by setting my motherboard to boot to USB. Now IT FLIES when loading up large programs and huge games. If I had known there was such a significant difference with having an nvme, I would not have bothered to build my current pc.


Links:
A couple current frontpage NVMe deals.

https://slickdeals.net/f/15340579-crucial-p5-1tb-3d-nand-pcie-gen-3-x4-nvme-internal-solid-state-drive-m-2-89-99-free-shipping?

https://slickdeals.net/f/15338497-1tb-sabrent-rocket-nvme-ssd-amazon-110-48-at-store4memory-via-amazon?

A search on Amazon for enclosures. There are tons of options available.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=nvme+3...x=nvme+3.2


Hope this info helps! 😎👍
Last edited by OmahaJeff October 22, 2021 at 08:48 PM.
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Oct 23, 2021
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booboloo
Oct 23, 2021
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Quote from JumpingJane :
How is this for uploading massive files of videos and photos?
https://www.techradar.com/reviews...rtable-ssd