VectoTech Rapid 2TB External SSD USB 3.0 Portable Solid State Drive

Don't bother with this one if purchasing outside of the US. After sales structure is useless. The USB cable arrives so tightly wrapped that it's sure to have incurred some damage. Low and behold once you connect the device it randomly disconnects because the USB cable is faulty. The seller does not deal with overseas customers. The only option you are given is to return the product to Amazon as faulty, get a refund and repurchase the same item. This would be very inconvenient if you already start transferring data across and then the flimsy temperamental cable fails.

The fact that there was a further import tax makes this too expensive

C'est le disque SSD externe ayant la plus grande capacité que j'ai pu trouver. On ne trouve l'équivalent qu'avec les disques à plateau qui requièrent une alimentation électrique autre que le simple fil USB C. Le prix est élevé mais au moment de l'achat, il n'avait pas de concurrence. Si il s'avère aussi endurant qu'il est spacieux, compact, rapide et silencieux, j'aurai fait une très bonne affaire malgré son prix.

I've only purchased G-Tech drives for years and a couple Fantom drives (7200 rpm) because they had the same insides (Hitachi) at G-Tech drives had, but 75% the cost. But, I edit from 12K and 8K .braw footage and needed an SSD that could hold massive projects. I still don't know what brand this is so I was leery but for the price, I tried one. It was actually great... super reliable after about 1.5 years right now with about 6 TBs of footage on it, varying resolutions, no lag at all. Okay, then I shot a film in 12K and 8K and figured I'd have to turn my footage into proxies (smaller versions of the files) to edit from... nope, not with this. I got a second drive for that project and it's been great, literally taking a break from editing on that right now. I'm a drive snob but I'm amazing by these so far. I'm still skeptical that it'll hold-up but it's been rock solid even though I've taken it into an office, back home, back and forth five days a week so it's not just sitting at home and still hasn't bricked. There's nothing else even close to this value for how much storage you get at these speeds.

Too soon to say if the drive has a good life span but it formatted very quickly and has been backing up my data continuously since it arrived.

Perfect size unit, and 2TB of space. Just plug it in, and backups are done!

I have a Synology Network Attached Storage (NAS) device that is setup with 1 drive fault tolerance and It is backed up to the cloud but I wanted to have something I could grab quickly and go if I needed to and know my data on this drive would not only be encrypted but accessible when I need it. This drive should work nicely for this intended purpose. I am using it to mirror about 5TB of data and I wanted something faster and more reliable than a Spinner. This also allows me to be fully in compliance with the 3-2-1 rule. 3 copies - 2 different types of mediums/equipment - and one location being offsite, my NAS HDDs, This External SSD, and an offsite cloud provider. This doesn't matter much if both local mediums get destroyed but that's why I have an offsite cloud too. Also the slightly faster speeds will allow me to access data a little quicker locally if I need to which will be nice. Overall 8tb for a little more than buying a cheap enclosure and a data internal ssd myself. M2s are a lot faster but also easily cost twice as much as this and 3 years warranty seems fine for the price difference of building my own. If you have more than 4tb and don't want to use multiple drives and want some speed this works for now.