I should start by saying prior to this SSD I had only been using SD cards. So I can’t speak exactly to the reliability or speed of other SSD’s on the market. Even still. Previously I had even purchased the SanDisk ‘PRO-READER SD Express Dual Card’ in hopes that it would improve transfer speeds and while maybe it did, there’s still absolutely no comparison between this SSD speed and the SD cards even with the additional $120 reader. The speed alone is reason enough to buy this. Now I am slightly skeptical as I am a Mac OS user and I’ve read plenty of reviews lamenting issues with disk corruption. So if something like that is to happen for me I will be sure to come back here and update this review. The other bonus is the size. I bought one of the Samsung T7 SSD’s for my friend so when I ordered this I expected the size to be roughly the same. Boy was I wrong. It is much much smaller. And to me that is also a huge plus. It’s roughly the size of a business card but of course a little thicker. Much better size imo than the comparable 3/4 of a phone size most other SSD’s clock in at.
An additional note:
Although I did download the SanDisk security software that comes already on the SSD in .dmg format I’ve opted to not use a password. I’m not concerned about someone else having access to it and additionally even if anyone else did gain access to it I don’t store anything confidential on it so it wouldn’t really matter to me. I’ve also chosen to do this because from what I’ve read of other reviews it seems that somewhere in between the computer/hard drive and password protection and SSD programming might be where the potential data corruption issues arise after possessing it for a bit of time. As such in efforts to avoid this possible corruption I’ve decided it better off to not have it PW protected.
| Hard Drive | 500 GB Solid State Drive |
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