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Costco Members: 1TB SanDisk Extreme NVMe Portable Solid State Drive SSD

+ Free S/H

$90

$155

41% off
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Costco Wholesale has 1TB SanDisk Extreme NVMe Portable Solid State Drive SSD (SDSSDE61-1T00-AC) on sale for $89.99 valid for Costco Members only. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member neso617 for finding this deal

Note, must login to your Costco account w/ an active membership to purchase

About the Product
  • Professional Grade Storage
  • 1050MB/s Read/Data Transfer Speeds
  • 1000MB/s Write/Data Transfer Speeds
  • Portable/Durable Silicon Shell
  • Handy Carabiner Loop
  • USB 3.2 (Gen 2) compatibility
  • 256-Bit AES Password Encryption
  • IP55 Water/Dust Resistance
Warranty
  • Includes a 5-year limited warranty w/ purchase

Editor's Notes

Written by citan359 | Staff
  • Fast NVMe solid state performance in a portable, high capacity drive + a range of USB Type-C smart phone compatibility for easy backup
  • Great for traveling near and far for all your storage needs
  • Offer valid through February 5, 2023 or while promotional price/supplies last
Additional Notes
  • If you don't have a Costco Warehouse Membership, you can sign-up here
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details.

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Written by neso617
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Costco Wholesale has 1TB SanDisk Extreme NVMe Portable Solid State Drive SSD (SDSSDE61-1T00-AC) on sale for $89.99 valid for Costco Members only. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member neso617 for finding this deal

Note, must login to your Costco account w/ an active membership to purchase

About the Product
  • Professional Grade Storage
  • 1050MB/s Read/Data Transfer Speeds
  • 1000MB/s Write/Data Transfer Speeds
  • Portable/Durable Silicon Shell
  • Handy Carabiner Loop
  • USB 3.2 (Gen 2) compatibility
  • 256-Bit AES Password Encryption
  • IP55 Water/Dust Resistance
Warranty
  • Includes a 5-year limited warranty w/ purchase

Editor's Notes

Written by citan359 | Staff
  • Fast NVMe solid state performance in a portable, high capacity drive + a range of USB Type-C smart phone compatibility for easy backup
  • Great for traveling near and far for all your storage needs
  • Offer valid through February 5, 2023 or while promotional price/supplies last
Additional Notes
  • If you don't have a Costco Warehouse Membership, you can sign-up here
  • Please refer to the forum thread for additional details.

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mkstewartesq
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For those looking to buy these as external SSDs for MacOS based operating systems, be advised that they may cause kernel panics (causing the Mac to spontaneously reboot). I have the 2TB version and am experiencing daily kernel panics and am about to send it back to Amazon once I securely wipe it; I see one or two other reviews mentioning the same thing as well as some anecdotal accounts on the interwebs. Not much detail other than it may be some sort of issue between the drive and the MacOS sleep function or Time Machine backup function.
JoeJ9362
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Why this much storage for dash cam? If there isn't an incident for the day rewriting over files shouldn't be an issue.
RickyBobby26
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I feel like this is overkill for a tesla. Look at the sandisk model that does the 520 MB/s for $69. Sometimes it's even cheaper. That's just the current price on Amazon. I'd even consider the 500gb version if you can find it for sometimes in the $40-50

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SeriesXM
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Quote from dubmang :
is this what i use if i have extra nvme harddrives? that can plug into a computer and use as external?
No, this unit already has an SSD inside. What you want is an external enclosure for an NVMe drive. Those aren't very expensive on Amazon.

Edit: I have this one and it works well, even though I haven't used it much. I see it posted here often and have read good reviews.

https://a.co/d/h6L6aEh
Last edited by SeriesXM January 24, 2023 at 09:50 AM.
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silcam
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Any idea if this is cheaper in-store at Costco?
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TochiT
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Quote from Arcticat :
COSTCO: Interface Connectivity
USB-C 3.2 Gen 1

Amazon: USB-C, USB 3.2 Gen 2
We are all victims of the constant spec name changes of USB 3. Fortunately they rectify the issue by referring the different specs by transferring speed. This SSD is capable of 10Gbps speed. That's what we need to know.
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Quote from alterndog :
the Amazon one is newer with 2000mb/s read and write speed. Costco is only 1050mb/s.
For anyone curious about this, I just looked them up and noticed that the big hole in the enclosure is different between the two models. The Costco model has a hole shaped like a rhombus, but the newer model on Amazon has its hole shaped more like a triangle. This is a good way to quickly know which model you're looking at.

Of course, a different case color would have made it even easier to distinguish between them, but at least they changed something visually so we don't have to go through the specs every time.
Last edited by SeriesXM January 24, 2023 at 11:27 AM.
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shick1098
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Is it possible there is confusion between the Extreme and Extreme Pro versions? The extreme hole is rhomboidal with 1050mb/s and extreme pro is triangular and reaches 2000. Extreme pro is $140 on amazon and extreme is $109 on amazon which is the same as the Costco model it seems. Just wanted to try to demystify. Please correct if I am mistaken Smilie
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IndigoWinter2667
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Quote from RobertY17 :
is this good if I just need a portable drive? I've purchased WD a long time ago that have suddenly went out on me.
Its a perfectly decent drive, no complains from me.
I had bought the older non NVME version on clearance at walmart that was DOA, WD/Sandisk replaced it within two weeks with the upgrade model (this one).

For your own reference, mine came with an SN750 inside.
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VioletTent657
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While I appreciate the post I appreciate that they removed the tesla information. The stretch of making this a tesla post seemed inappropriate.
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Quote from shick1098 :
Is it possible there is confusion between the Extreme and Extreme Pro versions? The extreme hole is rhomboidal with 1050mb/s and extreme pro is triangular and reaches 2000. Extreme pro is $140 on amazon and extreme is $109 on amazon which is the same as the Costco model it seems. Just wanted to try to demystify. Please correct if I am mistaken Smilie
*checks decades old geometry textbook*
Ahh, I see.
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Weejie
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I have several of these drives in different storage capacities and they all work great. This is a good price for a solid drive. I have not experienced that error mentioned in the thread and I use a Mac
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Quote from SeriesXM :
For anyone curious about this, I just looked them up and noticed that the big hole in the enclosure is different between the two models. The Costco model has a hole shaped like a triangle, but the newer model on Amazon has its hole shaped more like a rhombus. This is a good way to quickly know which model you're looking at.

Of course, a different case color would have made it even easier to distinguish between them, but at least they changed something visually so we don't have to go through the specs every time.
Don't confuse Extreme with Extreme PRO.
Extreme is capable of 10Gbps transferring speed while PRO is 20 Gbps. PRO is more expensive. Even for new laptop, not too many of them have 20 Gbps support even they support 40Gbps Thunderbolt. It's either 40Gbps TB or 10 Gbps USB. Only few support 20Gbps USB.
For this non-PRO ones (10Gbps), the shape of the hole is rhombus. According to an answer on Bestbuy from sandisk, SDSSDE61-1T00-G25 and SDSSDE61-1T00-AC are identical. The differences are for different sales channels/regions only.
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Quote from TochiT :
Don't confuse Extreme with Extreme PRO.
Extreme is capable of 10Gbps transferring speed while PRO is 20 Gbps. PRO is more expensive. Even for new laptop, not too many of them have 20 Gbps support even they support 40Gbps Thunderbolt. It's either 40Gbps TB or 10 Gbps USB. Only few support 20Gbps USB.
For this non-PRO ones (10Gbps), the shape of the hole is rhombus. According to an answer on Bestbuy from sandisk, SDSSDE61-1T00-G25 and SDSSDE61-1T00-AC are identical. The differences are for different sales channels/regions only.
Yeah, I just realized that I actually wrote it backwards, so I just fixed my post. Thanks for catching that.

The one with the triangle is the newer, better model. The rhombus style is the older, non-pro model.
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Zankapfel
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Quote from IndigoWinter2667 :
Its a perfectly decent drive, no complains from me.
I had bought the older non NVME version on clearance at walmart that was DOA, WD/Sandisk replaced it within two weeks with the upgrade model (this one).

For your own reference, mine came with an SN750 inside.
That's impressive. SN750 is a very good SSD. I figured they would use the cheaper "blue" drives in these. Any way to tell what's inside without opening?
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IndigoWinter2667
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Quote from Zankapfel :
That's impressive. SN750 is a very good SSD. I figured they would use the cheaper "blue" drives in these. Any way to tell what's inside without opening?
I used crystaldisk, it provides the model number of the internal SSD since its really just a drive in an enclosure.
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IssaB6242
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Quote from Arcticat :
COSTCO: Interface Connectivity
USB-C 3.2 Gen 1

Amazon: USB-C, USB 3.2 Gen 2
I noticed this too, does anyone know if this is a typo. WD webpage seems to show only 2 versions a(V1 and V2) and the only one that has the 1000mb/s speed is v2 which makes me think this is also USB 3.2 gen 2 and just a typo on Costco webpage. Thoughts ?

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Quote from Zankapfel :
I Never disconnect devices and use sleep frequently (pretty much never turn off my computers). I have been using this model (bought over a year ago for $99 at Costco) as the boot drive for a 2018 Mac mini (i7 6-core with 64GB Ram and Monterey OS) without any issues. It's fast and sleeps and wakes just fine. No kernel panics.
I'm about to pull the trigger on this (or the 2tb version) for my 2018 Mini with 128gb ssd. Was planning on moving most of my files to this, but you brought up the the thought - would it be better for me to just run it as the boot drive? Faster? Thoughts on how it's worked so far? Ive got 32gb sitting here that I wasnt going to put in until i got a drive

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