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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.

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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
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  • Includes a 5-year limited warranty w/ purchase
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Good for the new tesla buyers on Sentry and DashCam videos.

Non-tesla buyers, please be easy on the post.

Detail storage usage quote from website tesladriver:

Required amounts of data on the USB flash drive
The video recordings of the Tesla sentry mode and the dashcam function are stored on a USB flash drive. The drive must be connected to one of the two front USB ports in the car. With dashcam and sentry mode, the footage from the front camera, the two side-facing rear cameras and the rear camera footage is recorded. One minute of image recording requires 30 MB of memory per camera. Since the Dashcam only stores 60 minutes while driving and then overwrites the oldest data, the following space is required for the Dashcam function on the USB devices:

Dashcam
60 minutes * 30 MB * 4 cameras = ~7200 MB (=7.1 GB) for one hour of continuous recording of the Dashcam. More data is not needed for the Dashcam. Videos older than one hour will be overwritten.

Sentry mode (per event)
10 minutes * 30 MB * 4 cameras = ~1200 MB (=1.2 GB) for a manual 10-minute recording by pressing the Dashcam button.
Sentry mode also stores 10 minutes of video from the four cameras per threat detected. This means 1200 MB per event. So, a USB stick that is too small can get full quickly. The stored videos of the sentry mode cannot be deleted individually in the vehicle. The oldest sentry videos are automatically overwritten when the stick is full.
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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.
Why this much storage for dash cam? If there isn't an incident for the day rewriting over files shouldn't be an issue.
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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01-24-2023 at 09:22 AM.
01-24-2023 at 09:22 AM.
Quote from NavK8102 :
That is if you're leaving it connected when you wake up the Mac. I recommend to disconnect any external devices when you put your Mac to sleep. I had seen the panic error several times but couldn't spot which device was causing it.
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.
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01-24-2023 at 09:37 AM.
01-24-2023 at 09:37 AM.
is this what i use if i have extra nvme harddrives? that can plug into a computer and use as external?
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01-24-2023 at 09:46 AM.
01-24-2023 at 09:46 AM.
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
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01-24-2023 at 09:58 AM.
01-24-2023 at 09:58 AM.
Any idea if this is cheaper in-store at Costco?
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01-24-2023 at 10:00 AM.
01-24-2023 at 10:00 AM.
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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01-24-2023 at 10:02 AM.
01-24-2023 at 10:02 AM.
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.
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01-24-2023 at 10:18 AM.
01-24-2023 at 10:18 AM.
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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01-24-2023 at 10:24 AM.
01-24-2023 at 10:24 AM.
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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01-24-2023 at 10:56 AM.
01-24-2023 at 10:56 AM.
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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01-24-2023 at 10:57 AM.
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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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01-24-2023 at 11:03 AM.
01-24-2023 at 11:03 AM.
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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01-24-2023 at 11:16 AM.
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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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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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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