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expired Posted by OrangeDesk176 • Oct 24, 2021
Oct 24, 2021 7:09 AM
Costco Members: 1TB Sandisk NVME Extreme Portable SSD
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USB 3.1 Gen 2 has a max speed of 10Gbps (gigabits). That equals a theoretical max of 1.25GB/s (gigabytes) or 1250MB/s. Factor in 10-15% overhead for USB, which means that 1050/1000 MB/s is nearing the practical limit of the interface.
The drive inside is likely capable of higher speeds, but the USB interface is holding it back.
Example: I'm a photographer who travels sometimes hundreds or thousands of miles away to shoot weddings, so I back up the cards via laptop to these SSDs the same night at the hotel.
Sometimes when I'm on vacation and it's a rainy day, I might stay in to cull weddings that may be as large as 300-400GB each. Hence, why I have multiple 2TB externals (some are SanDisk, some are NVMes slotted into a USB-C adapter).
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If only OneDrive develops the smarts to create and maintain the backups on these external drives, I would keep my backup drive up to date frequently.
Since I use OneDrive with the offline files feature, it's not so easy to keep backups on an external drive up to date.
For external drives it is barely worth to get NVME inside, because as others mentioned here the USB bus, even 3.2 Gen 2, would be a bottle neck to full NVME speeds.
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For external drives it is barely worth to get NVME inside, because as others mentioned here the USB bus, even 3.2 Gen 2, would be a bottle neck to full NVME speeds.
This drive is rated to 1050MBps which is well under the the USB 3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps spec.
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Free shipping, you must be a Costco member to score these prices, though if you're not a member you may be able to buy them with a surcharge.
2TB:
https://www.costco.com/sandisk-nv...05384.html
1TB:
https://www.costco.com/sandisk-nv...80552.html
4 TB:
https://www.costco.com/sandisk-4t...93882.html
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Will pick up in store if it's lower
Will pick up in store if it's lower