Drop-resistant up to 2 meters
Built-in cable, pocket-sized portable drive
2.5x faster than most portable hard drives
Durable SSD inside with no moving parts
Auto backup software built-in
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Agreed on the T5 SSD they've beenon sale a lot recently as well.
Yes performance of these is quite poor but in my experience limited by the enclosure. M.2 SATA SSD inside and works well. Inside my 500GB (from the previous $50 deals) was a SanDisk SSD PLUS which I've put into an Orico enclosure.
You can get a 1TB SATA SSD even cheaper than this, so not worth shucking then.
If you shuck these you’ll get a Sandisk SSD Plus m.2 SATA drive, unbranded. Not mSATA inside. I have my 500GB version shucked.
Interestingly enough Sandisk SSD Plus product line doesn’t even have m.2 interfaced drives. These are totally off roadmap products.
Not a fancy drive, and this price is certainly not impressive when compared to NVMe drives out there.
.. or you might not, I have opened my 500gb version (recent $50 deal from officeworks) and the SSD was solderd/glued.. was not able to remove it from the "motherboard/connector part"
It’s just using very strong 3M VHB tape, so need a lot of patience to remove it. Don’t bend it though. The base board is super thin. Use hot air and/or razor blades when necessary. YMMV and you have been warned.
Anyway, if you’re not confident of doing such surgery, better leave it as is… I removed mine just because I tried to secure wipe the ssd while the drive is still in the shell, but the procedure went so wrong that the drive is locked down, and the USB controller apparently only supports locking, not unlocking. So I have to remove it and plug it directly to my computer to run commands to unlock the drive.
yeah, thanks for that, I have tried, but after few tries I accidentaly noticed the capacity lost a few MB (disk was like 99% full of old movies and I am sure I left like 10mb free but suddenly it was only 5mb or similar little discrepancy). I might have corrupted few sectors (are there sectors on SSD??) or I could have been wrong too or it might have just been an accident but I have stopped trying after this. It is slow but great for storing movies/series that are gonna circulutate within the family :)
@stefanko: That sounds like Windows/macOS issue, as they do write system files to the drive even if you’re not writing any of your own files.
@xmagic: might give it another try, mainly I wanted to replace the stock 256gb ssd in my lenovo E15 (gen 2 amd) which is WD SN530 (nvme) . Not sure if this would be faster/on par/slower but I could use the extra capacity while still using the 256gb in the external case. Alternatively, I could just add/put it in the NB coz it has 2x m.2 ssd slots. Thanks for helping me out mate. :)
@stefanko: You can’t exchange those two drives. The one from my passport might work in the laptop (with significantly slower speed), but the nvme drive definitely will not work in the my passport case.
@xmagic: ah, thanks for pointing that out, forgot that the enclosure is m.2 sata, so second drive it is, cheers :(
Performance of these is pretty poor, you’d be better off with a Samsung T5 if you’re really after speed.
Also $149 pickup at officeworks.