SanDisk 2TB Portable SSD

This product has the most economical price per TB for SSD from a trustworthy name brand like Sandisk giving me more confidence in long term reliability of backup data. Easy to use through USB, plug in and use and get faster transfer rates at 800mb/s. I bought an earlier version of the 2TB with 500mb/s about a year ago and had no problems so far. For price per TB, it is better to buy two of these 2TB than the 4TB version because the overall cost is less, it reduces your lost data in event of failure by splitting your data across two SSD and you can even duplicate critical data across both for redundancy so that if one SSD fails you do not lose critical data. It is better to have your data backed up on SSD than to cloud so you have direct control. There were some competitors that came in about $15 or $20 less for 2TB, but I am willing to pay a little more for the confidence you get with Sandisk performance and reliability.

Great product, awesome performance, good value, very reliable. Compatable with all my devices. High storage capacity

Good as expected

I use this to expand the storage capacity of a Tablo off the air DVR. Works flawlessly.

This portable SSD is very small, light and fast. It becomes very handy in away from desk situations like when you're working with your cameras and laptop outdoors (I shoot video outdoors) or when you're traveling. It works as soon as you plug it in and works fast, so it's as easy as it can get. I don't know how long it will last as storage devices have a mind of its own, and will stop working with no apparent reason, but for the 2 months i've had it, no problem so far, haha. The only thing is I wish it came with some anti-slip feet or something to keep it sliding all over the table, and as with all SanDisk SSDs, it comes with useless software I delete as soon as I take it out of the box.

It’s small size is convenient.

I LOVE THIS 2TB SSD!!!! ... IT LIT-UP RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX!!! Comes with a short "USB-C to USB-A" cord for use in a pinch, but it REALLY SINGS connected to my PC's "C" Port, with the proper 6 foot cable (USB 3.2/Gen 2.0). I tested it through a 2023 Dell® OptiPlex 3000™, Windows 11 Pro (v.24H2), Intel® i9 CPU, 64 Gigs RAM, 2TB SSD. I'm taking this drive EVERYWHERE with me!!! It's small, light, fast, and it appears to be able to withstand a modicum of office-to-home punishment! The ONLY shortcoming is SanDisk® omitted a micro-LED to indicate when the drive is being accessed. UPDATE: 02/18/2025 - While holding this drive flat with one hand, and with the SAME hand, use 2 fingers to stretch-out the "ORANGE LOOP". Using a brand new Exacto® blade (or GEM® single-edge razor blade), carefully cut the Orange Loop , laying the blade flat against the drive to act as a guide when cutting around the "curve" (see photo). Stretching the loop before cutting it, allows the remaining edge to be BELOW the surface! I'm sure some folks find that loop convenient - I found it to be a pain in the a$$. ALWAYS getting in the way, whether putting the drive in your pocket, or desk drawer! And WHO invites THEFT of this SSD by hooking it to a bag or luggage via a BRIGHT ORANGE LOOP, as shown in their video. Might as well attach a sign that says, "STEAL ME!" Good riddance. Still LOVE the drive!!

I currently have a 500GB Samsung drive which I have used for years with zero issue. I am an editor and have assets in excess of 1.5 TB. I looked into pricing and this was the most affordable. Many 2TB+ HD are in the hundreds. This drive was cost effective for me. Once I got it, I began transferring files to it. All the while, examining and taking inventory of what assets I had. This was transitions, audio, video and special FX. This took me 4 days and I wasn't finished when the unthinkable happened. In fact, was about 75% done. I ejected the Samsung with zero issue. When I ejected the SanDisk, it gave an error that it was in the process of doing something. I waited. Tried again. Same error. I didn't have time for this so I removed it manually. (Note: I have done this in the past as I'm sure anyone who reads this has done, without any issue.) I digress. I plugged it back in. Nothing. Restarted my Mac. Nothing. Plugged in my other drive. It was found. Looked in Apple Configurator. Nothing. I looked on-line for what people did. One reviewer on here said that they had to hook it up to a PC and do a repair. My wife is a PC person, thank god! Plugged it in and after about 10 min, it said no error found and was good to go. When I plugged it into my Mac, it was found as if there was never an issue in the first place. I will use this drive, but in the meantime I will be on the lookout for a more robust and trustworthy drive. Even if I have to pay $1000. It would be more reliable than this. I have tens of thousands of assets on it. I cannot let it die on me and lose all my files! Granted, I can redownload them and do the process all over again. But I'm not getting paid to do that! *** If you're a Mac user, make sure you have a PC to link it up to, so you can do a repair on it.** I do not know if the same applies for Windows Parallel. Before typing this I removed the drive by ejecting it. As I was typing this, I got an alert stating it was not ejected properly.

So far so good. I got this to backup my windows 7 pro laptop computer. I have tried some other drives and they won't make a disk image, this one will. I'm putting this in the reviews because when you ask "Rufus" it doesn't seem to come up with an answer, now it can. Support is kind of a joke. I tried to ask if the drive could support a windows 7 system image and the response was to log in to get the answer, couldn't do that for what ever reason I'm not sure. I asked "Rufus" for a SSD drive that would make a windows 7 system image and it showed me a list of drives that were compatible so I purchased this SanDisk SSD drive. When I got the new drive I tried to register it and the registration page said the information was incorrect and wouldn't let me register the drive, I know it was correct because it displayed correctly on the page. I was able to call and got someone from India that was hard to understand and after sending my proof of purchase and a picture of the front and back of the drive I think I got it registered, maybe. Hope I don't need to get further support because it may not be easy to do.

TL:DR: Very fast, very small & portable, seems trustworthy, will likely buy again -- but with a concern-inducing install procedure and utterly useless included security software. I've used SanDisk cards on & off in several cameras over the years, so when my backup drive died & took a couple of years worth of Time Machine backups with it, the 2TB SanDisk external SSD looked like a good step forward. It's impressively small, and while the cable is a tad shorter than I like it's still plenty long for basic everyday use. I did have to put an adapter on the end (standard USB to mini-USB for my MacBook Pro) but I've had to do that with a *lot* of devices so... no big deal. (Just keep the need for an adapter in mind if you're buying this product.) The disk mounted almost immediately when I plugged it in, and I could do all the read/write/delete operations I'd expect to normally do. I opened the .dmg file to install the SanDisk Security app and had not problems... Until I ran that software and it kept telling me "Attach a supported SanDisk drive." I then opened the "SanDiskSecureAccess" folder and instead of disk images found a pair of PDFs. I opened the one referencing MacOS downloads, read the short instructions, and clicked the "Ready to Download" link -- and Safari opened a page on the SanDisk website that stated, "Not available. This answer is no longer available." I tried searching on the website but finally gave up after confusing and/or hardware-only results. I then opened Time Machine on my Mac, then decided to rename the SanDisk drive (until now mounting as "External SSD"). The rename failed several times with the warning that the chosen name was either too long or had the wrong characters; it finally succeeded when I used just 10 letters, no blanks or other characters. I then went to add it to Time Machine and MacOS told me I had to reformat the disk because it was in an incompatible format. I copied all the files on it to a folder on my laptop and did the reformat, which completed in just a few seconds. By this time I had some misgivings but decided to push ahead (and am now glad I did). I restarted my MacBook Pro just to clean stray "stuff" out of memory, then tried the SanDisk Security program one more time -- same results, it can't see the new drive. I then went into Time Machine, told it to use the new drive as backup (not encrypted), and let it run -- and about an hour later I had a full backup of the entire file system (appropriate, since it was the first-ever backup for this drive and my main drive only has about 180GB left free out of 1TB storage space). Since then, I've had multiple automatic hourly backups and three manually-triggered backups run successfully and quickly, glitch-free. I'm going to uninstall the SanDisk Secure Access app (it's useless, but at least an uninstaller is included) and make sure I label the new drive properly. I'm likely to buy another one or two over the next year (one for photos and one for podcast files) because my external archive drive is old enough to be of concern... So I'm calling this one a 95% win, deducting one star for all the oddness of the prep, need to reformat, and over 30MB of wasted space for the useless security software.