Netac Portable SSD 500GB USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps, Type-C) External Solid State Drive External Hard Drive,Mobile SSD 500GB, Business Travel Essential, Deep Black

For a little under a year I have used this piece for just my main computer as extra storage that I had been dying for. It has been pretty much fantastic. You get around 980 total storage to use. Its a pretty solid external drive, feels sturdy but is very small. Its definitely had an impact on my games, mainly when booting them up. Downloads speeds are significantly quicker as well which has been greatly helpful when needing things downloaded asap. Only just recently did I use this drive with another computer/laptop when I was going to Glasgow for 3 nights and when I had some work to do. It had a bitlock on it which makes me feel better if anyone ever somehow got this drive and tried using it. It worked great, connected straight away and worked no different to how it does on my computer at home. Its brilliant I think my main love for this drive is the price of this. Much cheaper than most others and feels like it works just as good as them too. Definitely recommend.

However, not without some bother. On fitting to my note9 the phone would not register the usb storage. The Notac instructions were of no use. After much frustration a Google search revealed a YouTube clip explaining how to reformat the device. It still took the phone a couple of minutes after reformatting to accept the device. It works now both without problem and very quickly. Finally, I have to say Amazon delivery has been phenomenal on this occasion, ordered at 5pm, item delivered at 7.57am next day!!!

Seems to work ok, plugged in and formatted without any problem, but it does seem to draw quite close to the power limit when doing sustained write, I had a couple of glitches when copying large files. I plugged it in via a powered hub and that seemed to handle it better.

Excellent value for money. For the price you pay you get an absolute speedy small SSD. The SSD itself comes with a leather pouch, USB-C to USB-A adapter and a 30CM USB A to USB C data cable. The drive is small, thin and light weight (Think of a Milky Way bar!). I tested this drive on my PC and the speeds given match what has been said in description. I am lucky to to have a motherboard which has a USB 3.2. Gen 2 USB A&C ports at the back. On the front PC case (NZXT H510) I have a USB-C port and USB A port, unfortunately the motherboard does not have a USB 3.2 Gen 2 Front header, so the speeds here are only at 5Gbps (USB 3.1 Gen 1). The first image with speeds at 458 is the front IO ports, this is a decent speed with quick transfers even though it is not at is maximum speed. This was tested at 1 GiB. The second image with the speeds at 509 was tested on the USB 3.2 Gen 2 port 1GiB, as you can see the speeds have increased quite a bit both read and write, with surprisingly writes being slightly faster (but we could probably ignore this was this was only 1 test) The third image shows tests using 16GIB and the speeds are still fast on the Gen 2 port at over 500MB/s The fourth image this time using 10 16 MiB data and the drive speeds increase to it's advertised 550 MB/S impressive! The 5th image shows copying files from a Kingston USB data traveller (128GB) to the SSD 11GB of data (ISO files of Linux OS) this took around 60 seconds and stayed at a consistent speed of 200MB/S very good! The 6th images shows copying from the SSD to my internal NVME (Downloads folder) again 11GB of data and this was being written at 460MB/s (My internal drive reaches reads/writes at around 2GB second). The 7th image shows copying the same files 11GB of data from my desktop PC to the SSD this was being done at speeds of 387MB/s these are very good speeds for a small drive. Lastly, the last image shown at speeds of 44MB/s this occurred when using a USB 3.0 cable so be warned you need a good quality reliable USB 3.2. Gen 2 cable to get the maximum speeds, the speeds may also be affected by external USB Hubs/Docks. --------------------------------- LINUX TESTS --------------------------------- I briefly tested this on Kali Linux copying the same files (no images) I was getting speeds of 360MB/s writes copying from laptop to SSD. (The laptop has an NVME at 2GB/s speed) This was with the drive at around 200GB capacity. Once I cleared this and started at 232GB (The actual disk space useable) I first initially got 700 MB/s for smaller 2GB files and then the speed dropped down to 400/500MB/s writing files to SSD from laptop. This is still very good speed, it took 20 seconds copying those files compared to 10 minutes when I copy from my USB Stick! Overall the price/value ratio is excellent the speed on the drive means I know longer need to wait 10 minutes for files to copy. One of the reasons I purchased this was because of the slow file transfers of USB sticks (looking at you Kingston!), this solves that problem and I can quickly get back to work. The drive is small enough to fit a pocket back. There are no negatives about this, personally I didn't need the leather pouch think it's just additional waste and not environment friendly, but this is a minor personal issue.

Four month update: drive failed. Great external ssd device, exactly what I need. I have a monster and ryzen 9 with twin rtx 5080s. The machine (aka beast) came with windows 11 and I didn’t realize at the time this was a bad idea. The issue is that the power requirements for the beast are a little too much for a domestic power supply. Windows has trouble cold booting and when I login the gpus are initialised requiring yet more power making the system unstable. Disabling the gpus doesn’t solve the problem. So at this point I needed an external SSD where I could install Linux and boot it as primary when it’s is plugged in. For about £40 The netac 250gb ssd is just the right size for a couple of Linux partitions, some swap and a reasonable scratch data partition without needing a much more expensive larger drive. Recommended for overriding windows in a safe controlled manner and building a compute node.

Usually Windows transfers, especially when copying not moving is slow... But this thing? When plugged into the correct port, it's FAST. I reached an absolute peak of around 870MB/s! It was only for a split second but still... It's advertised write speed is 550MB/s. At first I wasn't that impressed, I was getting a rock solid 41.8MB/s, and tbh that's actually better than most thumb drives I've bought over the years, they'll do faster but in very short bursts then it's down to 20MB/s if lucky. But then I decided to use the cable provided and adapter, I then saw the speed I wanted and more. It does slow down, just like everything. But that transfer I've shown is for Borderlands 3, a 93GB game with lots of large and small files, it's a challenging transfer and remember, it's a copy not a cut and it sustained over 450MB/s for at least 60% of the transfer before slowing down. The entire transfer took roughly 15 minutes due to the slow down but that's to be expected, remember, everything will slow down on large transfers. Heat and Cachce can't be sustained for that long so please, be aware of how the technology works. It's a FANTASTIC portable SSD solution for the price and I've actually bought another because I'm that impressed, I also filled the drive up to 20GB left so it is definitely it's advertised size! (Remember 250GB is not 250GB in Windows, it's more around 232GB which is to be expected, it's how the numbers work 1000/1024)

So far it is working with no fails. Really light, I would say than the cable to connect it, one I bought, is heavier than this SSD. Plug in the proper port (usb 3.2) makes it really fast to move files. Great device. One thing for those with no regular use in disk like this. When is conneted to an android, will have the normal folders you can find in your phone, in case asks to format it. If you plan to plug in a PC or mac, just format it as exFAT, with this format you can plug in any computer -windows, linus or mac-. That is the best you can do to be sure you can reach the content with no problems about formatting.

it is very small and good quality item.

Satisfecho con la compra de este disco duro. La velocidad de transferencia con USB 3.2 Tipo-C Gen 2 es impresionante. He podido mover archivos pesados, de muchos gigas, en segundos, lo cual ahorra mucho tiempo. El diseño es elegante, compacto y muy fácil de transportar. No requiere instalación, solo conectar y usar. La carcasa se siente resistente y de buena calidad, no pesa nada y funciona perfectamente en mi PC y TV. ¡Una excelente relación calidad-precio, lo recomiendo totalmente!

Le caratteristiche principali di questo SSD sono le seguenti * Capacità: 500GB * Interfaccia: USB 3.2 Gen 1 * Velocità di lettura: fino a 540 MB/s * Velocità di scrittura: fino a 480 MB/s * Dimensioni: 100 x 64 x 9,5 mm * Peso: 39 g * Garanzia: 3 anni Perché acquistarlo? Prestazioni elevate: Netac SSD portatile 500GB offre prestazioni elevate, con velocità di lettura e scrittura fino a 540 MB/s e 480 MB/s, rispettivamente. Ciò lo rende ideale per il trasferimento di file di grandi dimensioni, come video, foto e documenti. 2. Compatibilità universale, è compatibile con la maggior parte dei computer e dei dispositivi mobili, tra cui PC, Mac, laptop, smartphone e tablet. È sufficiente collegarlo a una porta USB per iniziare a usarlo. 3. Design compatto e leggero: Netac SSD portatile 500GB è un dispositivo compatto e leggero, con dimensioni di soli 100 x 64 x 9,5 mm e un peso di 39 g. Ciò lo rende facile da trasportare e da portare con sé ovunque. 4. Resistenza agli urti e agli shock: è resistente agli urti e agli shock, ed è protetto da un involucro in metallo. Ciò lo rende ideale per l'utilizzo in viaggio o in ambienti difficili. 5. Consumo energetico ridotto: consuma pochissima energia, il che lo rende ideale per l'utilizzo con dispositivi alimentati a batteria. 6. Sicurezza dei dati: è dotato di crittografia hardware AES 256 bit, che protegge i dati da accessi non autorizzati. 7. Prezzo competitivo, infatti è un'opzione economica che offre prestazioni elevate e una serie di funzionalità utili. 8. Disponibile in diverse capacità Netac SSD portatile è disponibile in diverse capacità, da 128 GB a 2 TB. Ciò consente di scegliere la capacità giusta per le proprie esigenze. 9. Facile da usare, basta collegarlo a una porta USB e iniziare a trasferire file. 10. Compatibile con il software di backup: Netac SSD portatile è compatibile con il software di backup più popolare, tra cui Acronis True Image, Macrium Reflect e Paragon Backup & Recovery. Ciò semplifica il backup dei dati importanti. 11. Ideale per il trasferimento di file: ideale per il trasferimento di file tra computer, dispositivi mobili e altri dispositivi. 12. Ideale per l'archiviazione di file: è ideale per l'archiviazione di file di grandi dimensioni, come video, foto e documenti. 13. Ideale per l'utilizzo in viaggio: Netac SSD portatile è ideale per l'utilizzo in viaggio, in quanto è compatto e leggero. 14.Ideale per l'utilizzo in ambienti difficili: è resistente agli urti e agli shock, il che lo rende ideale per l'utilizzo in ambienti difficili. La mia conclusione è che il Netac SSD portatile 500GB è un'ottima scelta per chiunque cerchi un dispositivo di archiviazione portatile ad alte prestazioni. Offre prestazioni elevate, compatibilità universale, design compatto e leggero, resistenza agli urti e agli shock, consumo energetico ridotto, sicurezza dei dati, garanzia di 3 anni e prezzo competitivo. Pro: * Prestazioni elevate * Compatibilità universale * Design compatto e leggero * Resistenza agli urti e agli shock * Consumo energetico ridotto * Sicurezza dei dati * Garanzia di 3 anni * Prezzo competitivo Contro Per me non c'è né sono nessuno.

El material se siente de buena calidad. el tamaño es muy cómodo. la velocidad difícil de valorar, pero definitivamente más rápida que otras memorias. El cable viene con micro usb y adaptador para usb c.

Works as expected. I am using it as additional storage for Steam games on my PC, and have encountered no issues. Good value for money.

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