4TB PRO-Blade Transport - Portable and Modular NVMe SSD, Up to 2000MB/s, USB-C, USB 3.2 gen 2x2, Solid State Drive - SDPM2NB-004T-GBAND

Bought this SanDisk pro-blade transport system... Did not get to it until after return date... IT WAS DEFECTIVE. My mistake. After some arm twisting... I received a full refund and a new pro-blade eventually. Works great!

Highly recommend if speed and flexibility matter to you.

Recommended for those who need better read/write speeds for editing and streaming information or content from their devices, such as games, videos, photography, and high-fidelity design work. Note: You will have to set it up through CMD (Command Prompt) and Disk Management in Windows; however, if you do not know this method, it is easy to Google (or AI lookup) for how to. Additionally, onc eyou do compelte this method, it allows greater control over your Drive Name/Letter and otherwise more customization. - I did have to reorder and send back the first one due to errors of the system itself not working and no devices being able to register or read the drive, but the replacement worked, and I am enjoying it very much for my workflow now.

Update: The second unit failed after 90 days. DO NOT PURCHASE !!! I purchased this unit, along with several of the Blade SSD magazines, less than ten months ago. Today, I noticed the station was not lit up. Apparently, the internal power has failed. Plugging/unplugging results in fast fan action, then nothing. My suspicion is because the station tends to runs very hot when operating (sometimes the SSD magazine are scorching) something has burned out internally. It sells with a five-year warranty, but be prepared to go through a lot of hoops to even get an RMA started. Up until today it has operated well, but now, since I am so invested in the ecosystem, I feel I need to have a backup unit on hand in case of failure. "Professional" is not a word I would attach to this product as we tend to put a lot of demands on our hard drives and storage media and expect more. Shipping back to SanDisk next week for replacement.

I've been using my Sandic problade for about a year now and it's been awesome. I like the interchangeable storage design. I initially purchased the pro blade so I could use it with my Lumix s5m2x and record directly to an SSD but have since been using it for mass storage in general. I like being able to organize projects physically by drive. The pro blade has become my recording and mass storage system Its a but expensive to buy into the ecosystem which is what will probably turn most people off but the convenience is worth it for me.

Incredible, versatile, small, lightweight, fast. Great pairing for my Kondor Blue grip + hub rig for my iPhone 16 Pro filmmaking jobs.

The blade/stick solution is certainly a clever design. After so many formats now gone, the main question is the life span and consequently availability of this format in the next several years. The desk multi-blade boxes are currently too expensive where this system may not gain enough popularity to be still offered i.e. 5 years from now. The stick/blades commend premium cost which cal also limit its market life cycle. Cost reduction and 8TB, 12TB introductions could help. Update 09/26. The 4TB mag I just received via Amazon was unsealed and appeared to be previously used. Not sure wether or not to return it.. Update 10/09/24. The SanDisk blade ecosystem could use a dual-bay reader in addition to the too expensive and too bulky 4-bay unit. A raid provision could be added as well.

so far so great, works well with very fast speeds, its bigger than I expected but its high quality and comes with everything needed other than the drives.