SABRENT External SSD 2TB, Portable Hard Drive NVMe USB 3.2x2 1000 MB/s Read, USB 3.2 Cable C to A and Type A to C Included, External M.2 SSD Aluminum Shell 2.85 in Length (SB-2TB-NANO)

2TB Sabrent Nano (SB-2TB-NANO-BLK)- A tiny, high-quality enclosure (JMS583).- Sabrent 2242 m.2 NVMe SSD DRAM-less, Low-Power (Phison E13T).- Very good synthetic benchmarks results (Crystal Disk Mark 7 attached).- The device does get warm but it does not thermal throttle.- Real-world transfer speeds are a LOT slower than with a decent 2280 m.2 NVMe SSD + separate enclosure.- Sabrent's DRAM-less m.2 slows down a lot as soon as cache is exhausted.- Also some connectivity issues with my AMD X570 motherboard (probably due to JMS583).I did a real-world file transfer (863 files across 48 folders, total of 245GB | 1TB Samsung 970 Pro OS drive ):Write to: Asus Arion + 2TB Adata SX8200 Pro | 4m 57s | 844.71 MB/sWrite to: 2TB Sabrent Rocket Nano | 9m 02s = 542s | 462.88 MB/sRead from: Asus Arion + 2TB Adata SX8200 Pro | 5m 07s = 307s | 817.20 MB/sRead from: 2TB Sabrent Rocket Nano | 7m 44s = 464s | 540.69 MB/sI got the Asus Arion and 2TB Adata SX8200 Pro at about the same price as the Sabrent Rocket Nano 2TB. The Asus enclosure is heavier and larger, but that is the only downside. No connectivity issues, SSD runs a little cooler, but as with the example above, performs 82% faster in large writes, and 51% in large reads! Since I copy a lot from and to the external drives often... As nice and sleek as the Sabrent Nano is, the alterntive with a 2280 m.2 makes a lot more sense. If you only ever copy a couple Gigabytes at a time, this will be less relevant to you.Unless you MUST have one of the smallest NVMe enclosure, do consider alternatives. I am returning this to use the Asus enclosure and the Adata SSD. Most probably even a 2280 Sabrent enclosure and 2280 Sabrent m.2 will do a lot better than the Sabrent Rocket Nano, but I have not tested this. Again, this will very likely give you much better real-world file transfer performance for larger datasets. If you copy any set of data beyond about 20-25GB (ish), the device will slow down to transfer at around 450MB/s write and 550MB/s read in my case.Also if you have X570, maybe also find enclosures with alternative controllers to the JMS583. I have had zero issues with either ASM2362 or RTL9210 based enclosures (e.g. Asus Arion, Orico M2PJM-C3).

I normally do not write reviews, but I find the need to warn about this item.It does not seem to work at all and freezes up windows explorer. I tried it several times on three different machines with OS Windows 7 Pro and Windows 10 Pro using all the available connection cables. It 'times out' (whatever that means) at best and becomes inaccessible, otherwise it seems to bloc windows explorer as a whole.I even tried to reformat it, which also does not work. Anything that is suppose to access the drive takes something around 5 minutes before it comes back and then freezes. So in short straight into the bin. Very disappointing.

My experience is only for the 1TB version.For some reasons none of the reviews perform actual real world transfers.In CrystalDiskMark you can see read/writes at 900+ MB/s, but:In the real world, you are looking at 500MB/s to 550MB/s writes copying a large file, assuming you are using a GEN2 port.Reads were generally a little higher at 600MB/s to 750B/s.When connecting using GEN1 you will max out at 400MB/s.I found read/writes were sustainable even when copying 500+ GB in one go. Its gets warm, but not worryingly so.These speeds are still great, but bear this in mind when comparing to other options. This is a USB-C device, not a thunderbolt device.Build quality it above excellent. Packaging is so good you do not want to throw it away.The only issue I had, which may be due to my computer, was that when I swapped between the USB-C port and USB3.1 port on the same computer, the device needed the drivers to be removed, otherwise it only transferred at USB2 speeds.

Really disappointed with this SSD drive. It claims high speeds but when trying to copy a large amount of data the speeds drop to almost nothing. Also when trying to export video projects from premiere pro to this drive it stops and causes my computer crash and need a forced reset. I'm returning this to amazon and have bought a Sandisk SSD which works perfectly.

Tried on my PC and my laptop, here is what I get:1. USB 3.1 gen1 USB-A front panel port with supplied USB-C to USB-A cable, PCIE4.0 M.2 SSD on my PC: Write 200MB/s, READ 315MB/s (average)2. USB 3.1 gen1 USB-A front panel port with supplied USB-C to USB-A cable, Samsung 970 Pro on my PC: Write 195MB/s maximum, 75MB/s minimum, and the speed is very unstable; Read not tested3. USB 3.2 gen2 USB-C port of my laptop with supplied USB-C cable, Unknown pcie3.0 M.2 SSD: Write 460MB/s,Read 740MB/s maximum, dropped to 50MB/s soon.Not satisfied actually of this price.

I purchased this to be an external drive for PS4 games on my PS5. Its very small, and worked great on the PS4.However on connection to the rear USB ports on the PS5 it failed to work. I tried reformatting (exFat, with a MBR), even going through a complete format using Windows. (It got very very hot doing this). But it would just not play nicely, even when the PS5 offered to format it, it failed.Eventually I tried it with the USB C port on the front of the PS5, and this works. However I don't want it hanging off the front, it spoils the aesthetics. There may also be an issue with the PS5 crashing when this is connected, so I'm hoping for a software update to fix that.

I fitted this drive into a Tesla Model 3 for a DVR capability. It's perfect for this use-case but also good enough performance and quality to keep in a bag and use to cart data around.

Compact fast external SSD. It can get warm when transferring large amounts of date, but all HDDs do. Highly recommend.