Noticed Amazon US have a 50% off sale on the 1TB Extreme Pro, but shipping and taxes were annoying. Checked the Australian site which knocked around $20 off. Anyone who's looking for extremely fast 1TB in a USB stick, this is pretty hard to pass up…
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Try hanging any of those on your keychain
"chic chic, boom!"
Samsung T7 1TB Red $139
https://www.amazon.com.au/Samsung-MU-PC1T0R-WW-Aluminium-Por…
Err, I think in your desperation to shout someone down, you've misunderstood the basic premise - this is the best USB 3.x flash drive anyone makes, and it's half price. Because it's a USB flash drive, it's treated like a USB flash drive, so obeys all flash drive boot protocols. Try getting ISO's to boot from any of the examples you just gave (hint, it's possible, but you've got to do some heavy lifting to get there). As Andre points out, try hanging them off your keychain. And when it comes to USB-C, there is precious little driver support in bootable ISO images - they don't even see it. In fact, lots of hardware won't even look for bootable devices connected to the USB-C port even to find the bootloader, the drives are only accessible from the OS. And those that have hardware support can be tricky to get working. USB 3x just works.
I'll give you an example of where this drive shines - on a laptop with a single NVMe port, if you have E2B with the Acronis bootable media ISO on the USB drive, you select the ISO from the EFI startup menu, from there you can take a partial or whole disk backup directly onto the USB flash drive, and you can replace the original C drive and use the Extreme Pro to restore the backup image onto the replacement drive. Now sure, there are other ways to do that if you have other equipment available, but for a tech out on the road somewhere, a drive like this can turn a situation that would mean driving back and forth wasting lots of time into a simple, straightforward, elegant process.
If you're looking for fast, high capacity external storage and don't care about its size, sure there are many dozens of options out there that are faster and cheaper and even have greater capacity. But that's not the market for this drive, and those are not its competitors. It's a USB 3.2 flash drive. Its competitors are other USB 3x drives. Yes, you can get the same capacity for less. But a faster USB 3x drive there is not, and if you need the fastest drive with 1TB, I'd say 50% off is a pretty good deal.
But you know, go have fun making non-equivalent comparisons if that's what makes you happy :-)
High capacity USB sticks are a great way to keep warm in winter.
Wow. 1 tb in a usb stick.
With an outdated, limiting port and a big pricetag.
what's so limiting about the port? I would like to see you find a comparable usb-c version
Not sure anymore about the speed limitations in regards of this one, but at that price you can have a much faster usb-c drive. Less compact, but doesn't need a usb c-a dongle if your laptop doesn't have usb-a anymore (vide macbooks from the last… 6 years?).
This stick here has:
Read speeds up to 420MB/s, write speeds up to 380MB/s.
@askbargain: https://www.amazon.com.au/Samsung-MU-PC1T0T-WW-Aluminium-Por…
Samsung Portable SSD T7, 1TB, Titan Gray, USB3.2, Type-C, R/W(Max) 1,050MB/s, Aluminium Case, 3 Years Warranty
This is -33%, $139.00 at this very moment, but even at the RRP: $209.00 it's a better deal to me.
@pizzaguy: So odd that people seem to struggle with the idea that they're comparing different products. To you, one external storage device is much like another. But your 1TB SSD on a $/GB comparison next to an external HDD, the value you are spruiking is laughable, because to me all I care about is capacity in an external storage product. Oh, you don't like that comparison? You think it's ludicrous? Right back at 'cha.
This isn't an external SSD. It's a USB Flash drive. A USB 3x flash drive. Come back when you can find another USB 3x flash drives with this capacity at this performance. At any price. Because they don't exist. For this product category, it's the best anyone's ever made. And it's half price. And you struggle with the idea this is good value? Because to you it doesn't make ice cream, and right now all you want is ice cream. Yeah, you're right, this is a terrible deal for an ice cream maker or a freezer! What was I thinking?!
@TrevorX: All good, I wasn't aware of the fact this is a niche product - my main machine shedded USB-A ports long time ago and never had issues booting off a USB-C disk.
TIL
@pizzaguy: Dunno about dongles, I have adapters that are little more than step-down shims, hardly a big deal. I also have a bunch of USB-C drives (both flash sticks and a couple of NVMe drives in portable cases) - until SanDisk do a USB-C version of the Extreme Pro, these drives continue to be the ultimate choice for portability, speed and reliability with reasonable capacity. Yes, you pay a premium, but at least you actually get something tangibly better for your money.
easy2boot, medicat, hirens bootcd.
Would rather just get a ssd and put a case on it.
I have the 1TB usb3/USBc sandisk stick thats on amazon atm for $137. My not be as fast but love the way I can go between macbook/Android/PC without adaptors
Try booting a Windows OS installer from USB-C - for a technician who needs a USB bootable drive that can hold every ISO they might need and have plenty of space for taking whole disk backups fast, this is about as good a muti-use Swiss army knife as you're going to find. As DFG555 mentioned, stick E2B on it, you can just load ISOs on and these days you can UEFI and Secure Boot anything on the drive with no further config required.
If you want an external SSD brick, this isn't that. If you want cheap storage and don't need the performance, this isn't for you. If you think $208 is 'expensive', this DEFINITELY isn't for you. Just look at the usual price of these on staticice. I've spent over $300 on flash drives with a fraction of this capacity in the past, for $208 I didn't even think about it (despite barely touching my 256GB Extreme Pro drives in the past two years - at this price, to me, this is in the 'just in case' category).
I appreciate the detail @TrevorX. Very helpful and likely saved me getting something that wouldnt have been suitable for the intended purpose.I'd like ask bug you for your Swiss Army knife setup and programs if you have time.
I'm looking to get a high capacity and fast Drive for OS installs + bootable OS use. I wasn't aware that usb caused problems with the windows installer, glad to find out in time.
Is that the main reason you like the product over a usb-c external ssd? For me the form factor isnt a huge concern and unlike a professional, the drive failing from continuous large data reads/writes shouldnt be a concern so im wondering if I should jump on this, or throw together an external ssd enclosure for the job.
Thanks for any advice and for the comments.
I've used Sandisk Extreme Pro drives for years, I started with the original silver 128GB drive, have two 256GBs and now a 1TB. I've been using Easy 2 Boot (E2B) from its early days, after having to do a lot of manual config to get multiboot ISO's working with earlier systems. E2B in its current incarnation is incredibly simple - no more having to make special images just for EFI booting, the bootloader can handle all of that seamlessly for you now.
If you don't have a compelling need for the space, the 256GB drives are only about $80 on sale, or there's a 128GB available on AliExpress for just $50 atm: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003435019160.html It will be big enough for every ISO you are likely to need, but if you want to have more space for things like full disk backup you'll need to go bigger.
I haven't been a tech for many years, and it very much depends on what the work involves, but basic needs are utilities that give you the ability to access, diagnose and repair a machine on-site. Back when I did work like that I used to have a laptop and external drive caddies so accessing data, backing it up and scanning drives for viruses was never something I had to wrangle on the problem PC. But memory testers, some Linux boot environments, WindowsPE, Acronis, and of course all the install ISOs for Windows XP to 10 (& now 11), Server 2008 to 2019 (and now 2022), and various versions of Linux.
Some of the new ISOs will boot from USB-C, but if they pre-date the existence of the drivers you have to edit the ISO's to slipstream the drivers into them, which is a pain (particularly if you need to keep on rebuilding new versions every six to 12 months). The ability to boot to USB-C comes down to both hardware support (because lots of hardware won't let you even select it, or may not even power on those ports early enough for BIOS to see it) and driver support within the OS ISO. Whereas pretty much anything will happily boot from a USB 3.0 flash drive, and if you happen to be working on a device that only has USB-C you can still access it easily enough with a USB-A to USB-C adapter.
You may find this page useful:
https://easy2boot.xyz/best-usb-drives/
Also take a look at the Ventoy page (note that E2B now includes Ventoy built in, if you select that option, but agFM may be sufficient for your needs. But I recommend reading about it so you know how to use everything and what the choices mean): https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Strange - showed $13 international delivery for a moment when glancing yesterday - now back to free delivery using same Prime account
Extreme pro Uber unbelievable super fast edition.
USB 3.2.
Lol, sure buddy. This is
terriblepretty bad value.At least this is slightly better:
Sabrent Rocket Pro 1TB USB 3.2 External Aluminum SSD (SB-1TB-PRO) https://amzn.asia/d/5RpDTlg
Here you go even better:
Western Digital My Passport SSD, 1TB, External Portable Drive, Gray, Up to 1050 MB/s - WDBAGF0010BGY-WESN https://amzn.asia/d/clqFjfH
When the interface is USB3.2, pretty much all ssd’s (but maybe data ssd’s) can easily saturate the connection…
Adding even more:
SanDisk Extreme 1TB Portable NVMe SSD, USB-C, up to 1050MB/s Read and 1000MB/s Write Speed, Water and Dust-Resistant - Works with PC, PS4, and Xbox X SDSSDE61-1T00-G25 https://amzn.asia/d/gvtW8PN