CalDigit Tuff Nano Plus 2TB - Compact Rugged IP67 USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 10Gb/s External NVME SSD, Compatible with Thunderbolt 4 Mac and PC, Up to 1055MB/s (2TB Nano Plus, Royal Blue)

If you have a Mac you are good to go, since it is formatted for Mac from the vendor. If you have a PC, its not that easy. A PC wont even recognize it as a drive until you delete the Mac information. You have to find it as an administrator and figure out what to delete, since what comes up on the screen doesnt match what it says in the directions. Once the Mac info is deleted, you can then format to your PC. If I figured it out, Im sure most folks will. It just seems like a lot of fuss, when it could have come blank - ready to format for either application.

First impression was good, it looks like its a good quality product. Started using it and it keeps getting hotter and hotter. Speed went down considerably and im afraid of using it for backup and it ends up failing because of the amount of heat it generates. For the price i thought about giving it a try instead of spending the extra for a samsung t5. oh well ill be returning it and getting a t5 instead, its not worth the money.

Used it once for Backups purposes. Works as advertised.

Working beyond my expectations on this product.

I have the caldigit element hub and this product made by the same company isnt compatible. It will read the hard drive if I connect it directly to the computer but wont recognize it plugged into the hub. My other drives have no problem being read once its connected to the hub. Horrible that their own products arent compatible with each other.

Excellent product. It feels very compact than my original thought.

It was a little tricky to format for use with a Windows 10 computer. However, an email to CalDigit Customer Service resulted in a successful formatting. It now works well.

Best hard drive I’ve ever owned! And I’ve owned A LOT!!

This is a review of the Caldigit Tuff Nano with a brand new 16 Macbook Pro with a thunderbolt 3 40Gbps 100 watt 17 inch OWC cable plugged directly into the T3 port on the MBP it tests at 700MB/s write and 904 MB/s read using the blackmagic design disk speed test. So beware any time you see a speed that says up to. Still its fast for the money, and small, and Ill probably buy another for field work. Small is good with the size of my kit, small and faster is a win win. Go out and buy it. Works right out of the box with Mac. Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The second photo is up against a SSD enclosure so you can see how small it is. You can buy the 2400MB/sec-2800MB/s 4x NVMe RAID 0 array drives out there but they will be much bigger. OK, I just switched the T3 cable to the one that came in the box with the drive and the speeds are a little faster, 776MB/s and 908MB/s. Interesting. Use the cable in the box, too many inferior T3 cables out there. Update: I can confirm this does work with the 2020 iPad Pro 11 inch. I tried the Sabrent NvME but the ipad would not recognize it, iPad does not support thunderbolt 3. So far the tough nano is the fastest small portable drive that works with the iPad. I dont even need a hub because I plug in an SD card reader, the SanDisk UHS-II and I can capture a 2 GB video file (300MB/s sandisk card) in 7 seconds. BTW, the SanDisk SD to USB-C card reader is the fastest out there in my tests So get it. I dont see any need for a Gnarbox box anymore. I capture from the SD card onto my iPad Pro because I have a 1 TB of storage. I can dump from the iPad back to the Caldigit tuff nano if I need to. But that process is slow, if you wanna dump 230 GB from the iPad to the Caldigit tuff nano it will take about three hours. Not sure why the process is so slow going out from the iPad. But I still have the originals on the cards and a copy on my iPad, thats good enough for me. Im liking this tuff nano more and more especially as the prices drop.

Nice product at good price. but I intend to connect old IMAC 24 ( 2009) using thunderbolt2 to 3 adapter which apple made. it failed, it works well when using usb 2.0. but not read this SSD when connects on thuderbolt 2.