Silicon Power 2TB Rugged Portable External SSD USB 3.2 Gen 2 (USB3.2) with USB-C to USB-C/USB-A Cables, Ideal for PC, Mac, Xbox and PS4, PS5 Bolt B75 Pro

My daughter bought this for me and I use it to back up my files. I used this to back up 458GB of data, when first plug in, it says will take 3 hours to back up, then became 6 hours, then became 1 day. Finally took 8.5 hours to finish the back up. I then used Seagate 2TB HDD drive, Same computer, same data, same day, same usb port, it took 4 hours to back up the exactly same data. So far the device works fine. It is a SSD, but slower than HDD. I am not sure why. It looks fine, lighter than my HDD, but slightly bigger. I can only give 2 stars at this time.

Great build, including a great cable which firmly attaches to usb3 sockets. On Mac, good read/write speeds of 530/460 MB/sec respectively, but only while SSD fast cache buffer is free and there is pre-cleared SSD memory available. SSD cards cant write over previously deleted data unless that data has been cleared by a separate pass, at which time the write speed drops to 6 MB/sec while it does that pre-clearing. Once I learned this unusual behavior (of all SSDs Im told) I was very happy with this 1TB unit and have 2 of them.

I was skeptical at first with how poor some of the other reviews were. some claimed it to be as slow as any other HDD and as a gamer looking for fast loading screens I wasnt too sure. However I can assure you after playing both CS:GO and BF2042 all day on this device I saw no real difference between those games loading from my built in SSD and this SSD. Do note I am running it with the USB C to USB C on a Gen 2 USB C 3.2 port. Im not sure if that has an advantage over a Gen 2 USB A 3.2 port, I havent tried it. As of today 8/29/22 the SSD works great for gaming. If I run into any issues in the future Ill be sure to update my review and if you never see this review change its still in great working condition.

Nothing to complain about this is a really great drive for the money

I dont know whose fault it is, but the product description for the 1TB USB stick is incorrect, and the error is significant: says USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10GB spec), but the package is clearly labeled USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5GB spec). Now of course the USB labeling was invented by some gnome with a bad sense of humor, but if youre going to use the labels, you have to get it right. (To be fair, the upto 600MB/s is a clue that should have raised my suspicions, but unfortunately I wasnt really paying attention to that.) This might still be a reasonable product for the price, but not what Im looking for. Caveat emptor.

Its thin, feels solid, black aluminum skin and comes with USB/USBC and USBC/USBC short cables. I like short cables as it reduces transmit times. I dont have data on read/write, but it seems very speedy. So much better than a plate drive! Omg! I am very happy, would recommend to anyone.

I wanted a fast, relatively large sized, and portable drive to take with me for MBP time machine backups. This drive was priced competitively, and seems to work really well for my purposes.

I dislike nothing about this product and I think its a great value, very durable and has the right amount of storage capacity for what I purchased it for.

Son needed this so his games could load faster, works great with Xbox.

Seemed like a decent drive. Light, relatively solid, pretty fast. I placed it in my ventilated rack where the drive never left or was bumped or damaged in any way. I loaded about 500 G of data on it and it became unrecognizable by my machine in less than 45 days. Tried multiple cables, different machines, and recovery software - but its like the drive just went poof. The hassel of moving that much data around from different sources again.... I dont even want to think about it right now. Just pick something else....