Review: SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD V2 (1TB)

by Tarinder Sandhu on 4 February 2021, 14:01

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Conclusion

...one can move 200GB in less time than it takes to make a cup of tea.

Speedy external USB storage makes a lot of sense when understood through the lens of an increasing number of creative professionals needing to move huge files around quickly.

SanDisk duly notices this burgeoning crowd by releasing its fastest-ever portable external drive yet. The Extreme PRO Portable SSD V2 uses a tried-and-tested NVMe SSD available in up to a 4TB capacity and bridges it over to 20Gbps USB-C.

Real-world sequential speeds don't match the headline figure but still offer over 1GB/s, meaning one can move 200GB in less time than it takes to make a cup of tea.

Some hurdles remain. Only a handful of motherboards have the requisite USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 port, even fewer laptops do, and USB4 is waiting in the wings, promising up to twice the bandwidth for future models.

If you have the budget and infrastructure to make the most of it, however, the SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD V2 offers lusty performance and handsome capacity.

The Good
 
The Bad
Up to 4TB capacity
Basic ruggerdisation
Over 1GB/s in real-world use
 
USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 support sketchy
Still not as fast as Thunderbolt 3



SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD V2 1TB

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Might be a silly question.
Ok so the size of those drives , lets pick the 500GB one
I would presume that this is the MB not MiB, so its actually around 477GiB we all understand this.

ok so the tx speeds, is the 1,050MB/s MB or MiB?
My son is now looking for a USB SSD as apparently you can play PS4 games from one on a PS5, freeing up some of the onboard SSD. Don't know if that could be made into a benchmark of some sort.

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ok so the tx speeds, is the 1,050MB/s MB or MiB?

With my ex NAS engineer hat on: Storage has always been in 10^3 based SI standard units of k, M, G etc

In RAM which is in chips with 2^n address lines using GiB still makes some sense to keep the numbers nice and round. Lengths of tape, areas of disk and drum have never had such considerations.

So I would hope it is MB/s on a storage benchmark, or it is wrong. Same goes for networking.