SanDisk 500GB Extreme Portable External SSD - Up to 550MB/s - USB-C, USB 3.1 - SDSSDE60-500G-G25

During the drive, you will enjoy the scenery. small, light, and it delivers on its promised 550 MB/s, which is fantastic for a device of this size. That said, if you would like to use this drive for anything other than movies, music, and pictures, you are going to need to format it first. If you wish to use the drive to back up your phone or computer, this is especially true. As soon as the drive is unpacked, it is formatted with exFAT and has a 1 MB allocation size. Thus, any file that is less than 1 MB takes up 1 MB. On a 250 GB hard drive, 1 MB may seem like a very small amount The two-terabyte drive is enough, but when you have all those small files on backups taking up 1,000 times as much space as normal, it adds up quickly. You can see in the attached pictures that a small text file takes up 2,700x more space than it really occupies and that a 177 GB backup takes up 73 GB more space than it should. I mention this because it's a very simple It is clear from the command line that the sector size on the drive is 512 bytes, which implies that a relatively large allocation is unnecessary. In order to format your hard drive, you need to select an allocation size smaller than 1 MB and format it as exFAT. The factory 1 MB allocation size is far less efficient that Microsoft's recommended 128 KB allocation size, but you can go as small as 4 KB or as large as 256 KB and still be more efficient than that.

Milena Lawrence

| Jun 25, 2021

There's something wrong with this drive. I had no problems using it for the first month, but now my Lightroom profile won't load, and I can't export my photos. No matter what you do with the drive, whether it be transferring files onto it, or transferring files off of it, it will randomly hang. The 1 TB Hard Drive I own will hang in the middle of transferring 5 GB of data because I bought it yesterday It starts to work after 3 gigabytes, but then completely freezes (see attached Can't open up Lightroom/Productivity because Portfolio freezes before it has a chance to open. This hard drive is the only one on my computer that is not working. There were five years of travel photos that were lost. SanDisk will never make it onto my shopping list again. I only buy Samsung SSDs moving forward.

Opal Pratt

| May 16, 2021

My girlfriend and I have been sandisk fans for several years by buying many terabytes of memory in different Their quality has become more important to me than other brands because I started out in photography with them. Because I value the protection of my data and files, I didn't mind paying a higher premium for the service. My first real problem is an insidious one, and it's the first time I've had a serious issue. As after a couple of months of ownership, I have experienced a problem with it corrupting files while I am saving them, without any error message or notice. A few hours later, the file is either missing data or is entirely unreadable, so everything I did.

Alaiya Moreno

| Jan 18, 2021

SuperDuper software was used to backup my data using a spinning hard drive and it was a painfully slow process. Typically, it took between 30 minutes and an hour for 500GB of data to be backed up and restored. Considering I have an internal SSD on my MacBook Pro, it made complete sense that the destination backup would also be stored on an SSD drive where the transfer speeds would be drastically improved. There is one more consideration to be made A spinning hard drive has a much higher failure rate than a SSD. There were so many spinning backup drives I purchased in the past that ultimately failed that I cannot even begin to tell you how many I have purchased. In the future, SSDs will be the only drives to be used, and since the prices have dropped on these drives it makes no sense to stay away from Before selecting this SanDisk 1TB drive, I researched a number of SSD drives. My first choice was a Samsung in a metal case with a colorized design. Although the Samsung drives were reviewed positively, I seemed to believe there were some major issues with the embedded software as there was a difficult time removing it. It is not something anyone wants to happen when trying to buy an SSD drive.

Reading the SanDisk Extreme's reviews, I was able to see that I would find this to be perfect. were very positive across the board. There were no embedded programs. At the time of this writing, this particular SSD has been deemed as one of the fastest USB drives on the market. As I approached the drive, I was surprised to discover that it is really quite short. You'd never believe how small it is. Your jeans pocket would not feel it and you could fit it in there. In recent years, we've made significant progress in the portability of external SSD drives. As you can tell, I don't like the cover on this drive. It draws dust like crazy. Upon place it on my table it started collecting hair from the air as soon as I placed it. The good news is that it is so tough that you can drop it from just about any height and it will survive. It's more important than anything else, I guess. Having a USB-driven drive is nice to have, even though the drive doesn't come with one Connect the USB cable to the C cord It is an There is also no wiggle in the cord when connected to the drive. Only downside I can think of with the cord is that it's too short.

In my photos, I have included the result of a recent backup I performed on my MacBook Pro via the in the screenshot that 425GB of data was backed up within 30 minutes. If the drive had spun manually, that would have taken two hours. This is 3 times longer than before. You will find that this drive is very fast! You can use it in Windows as it is formatted for that operating system. It is the same as buying one for your laptop, but you have to find DISK UTILITY (in your applications folder), select the SanDisk drive, and click Formatting the drive in OSX Extended Journaled should be your first step. Shortly after you finish formatting, you'll see the results. This is by far the best SSD drive I have ever owned. You can then transfer data to the drive. You should not hesitate to prioritize this over any other option.

Desmond WHITTAKER

| Jul 20, 2021

This came in ExFAT format when I bought it, and I tried copying my 16GB folder, which contains 750,827 files, and 20,483 folders, from it to another hard drive. Since it could not copy the entire 16GB directory onto the 500GB drive, I formatted to NTFS, which took all of two seconds. After reading a little bit about ExFAT, I determined that I needed to use smaller files and formatted to NTFS. Once I had done that, I was able to successfully copy all of my files (130GB) onto the Sandisk 500GB drive. As a matter of fact, this thing FLYS! This is a great game, and I hope it lasts a long time.

Matteo CARTWRIGHT

| Mar 11, 2021

This is an incredibly fast and small machine. The performance of this external drive is far better than that of my other external drives. The cons are Large file transfers use a lot of power and this SSD runs hot.

Maxton McBride

| Apr 27, 2021