SanDisk 4TB Extreme PRO Portable SSD, USB-C USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, External NVMe Solid State Drive, up to 2000 MB/s, IP65 rated for dust and water resistance

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The evaluation routine for direct-attached storage devices – portable SSDs, storage bridges (including RAID enclosures), and memory cards – all utilize the same testbed and have similar workloads with slight tweaks based on the end market for the product. Our testbeds have kept pace with the introduction of new external interfaces - Thunderbolt 2, Thunderbolt 3, and USB 3.2 Gen 2 via Type-C. In mid-2014, we prepared a custom desktop based on Haswell, which was then upgraded to Skylake in early 2016. A botched Thunderbolt 3 firmware upgrade on the Skylake machine meant that we had to shift to the Hades Canyon NUC starting in early 2019. This year, we have adopted the Quartz Canyon NUC (essentially, the Xeon / ECC version of the Ghost Canyon NUC) along with build components from ADATA Industrial - 2x 16GB DDR4-3200 ECC SODIMMs and a PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD - the IM2P33E8 1TB. The specifications of the testbed are summarized in the table below: AnandTech DAS Testbed Configuration The table below presents a comparative view of the specifications of the two portable SSDs covered in this review. Comparative Portable SSDs Configuration Neither the name of the University of California, Berkeley nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.Since this drive is only USB Gen 3.2 Gen 2 capable, there are many brands and products that offer the same capacities and performance levels for significantly less. Overall, this is a very nicely engineered and constructed external drive that looks able to cope with abuse that might be expected to kill those external SSDs that are made mostly of plastic. USB-C Connectivity: The PRO-G40 plays nice with both Thunderbolt 3 and USB Type-C ports. So you can experience great performance whether connecting to your MacBook Pro or an iPad Pro.

s and 2500MB/s Read/Write Speeds: The PRO-G40 hits remarkable speeds up 3000MB/s read and 2500MB/s write over its Thunderbolt 3 interface. This bandwidth rips through transfers of 8K footage, giant photo libraries, or any media files you need to store or move. What Western Digital also usually provides with its My Passport drives are some Windows software utilities that copy user files to the drive or install new firmware releases. Up to three-meter drop protection and IP65 water and dust resistance 5 mean this durable drive can take a beating.The G-Drive SSD comes with none of these, regrettably. We can only conclude that those who designed the G-Drive SSD assumed that it would be mostly Apple macOS users purchasing this drive, and they have Time Machine and don’t need any other tools.