Much closer to the claimed speed than I was anticipating. I was still able to reach read speeds in excess of 500MB/s, though, and I would count this as an excellent result. In practice you never actually get manufacturer claimed speeds in real life. Sandisk claim read speeds of up to 550MB/s but this is in absolutely ideal scenarios with their lab equipment. Size compared to a LaCie Rugged 2.5″ HDD. I no longer have to configure my bag to have a specific empty area for hard drive storage. Their size and shape also makes them much easier to simply tuck into corners and empty spaces among your gear. In a world with ever shrinking carry-on baggage allowance, this does make a difference to me. All three of the SSDs don’t even weigh, or take up as much room as one single Rugged hard drive. If I were to swap three LaCie Rugged hard drives for three Sandisk Extreme SSDs, the weight and bulk saving would be significant. They are incredibly rugged, the name doesn’t lie, but they are bulky and heavy compared to these Extreme SSDs. In the past these drives have all been LaCie Rugged drives. I will often carry a third drive with me that has images from other concurrent projects. A pair of drives starts out empty, and I duplicate all my new images onto both drives every night. Look how small this thing is! Whenever I travel for my photography, I take a minium of two external drives with me to back up my photos. Before we get into the performance testing of these drives, it’s definitely worth talking about the size and construction.
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