2TB WD_Black D30 Game Drive Portable External SSD (Compatible with New Gen Consoles, PC & More)

[Larry Shelby]

$169.99 on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B093HKLY24/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1

Edited April 14, 2022 by cclarry

[TheSteven]

Looks like a nice deal.  Might make a good drive to hold my Kontakt libs. 
Anyone have one of these?

Edit: 
Comparing listed specs

WD_BLACK 2TB D30:

• Up to 900MBS
• $169

Samsung T5 Portable (2TB):

• Up to 540MBS
• $209 

Edited April 15, 2022 by TheSteven

[kitekrazy1]

I'd take the WD over the Samsung.  WD SSDs have a 5 yr. warranty and their RMA is one of the best.

[TheSteven]

1 hour ago, Paul Young said:

I'd take the WD over the Samsung.  WD SSDs have a 5 yr. warranty and their RMA is one of the best.

Agreed.

It's faster, $40 cheaper & has better warranty.
I pulled the trigger and bought one.

[Billy86]

Curious to know. Been considering an external.  How do speeds of externals compare with an internal SATA SSD? No doubt the externals aren’t as fast as an NVMe m.2, right? 

[Fleer]

I guess Samsung’s T7 goes faster but hotter too. Still got to test mine. 

[TheSteven]

2 hours ago, Billy86 said:

Curious to know. Been considering an external.  How do speeds of externals compare with an internal SATA SSD? No doubt the externals aren’t as fast as an NVMe m.2, right? 

Internal is and probably always will be considerably faster.

Data transfer will go as fast as the slowest device or bus in the chain 
•    the source disk
•    the interfaces over which the data is moving
•    the destination disk

External interface/connection types:

Thunderbolt
•    Thunderbolt 3 and 4 support speeds up to 40Gbps.
•    Thunderbolt 2 supports speeds up to 20Gbps.

USB-C
•    USB 4 supports speeds up to 40Gbps.
•    USB 3.1 supports speeds up to l0Gbps.

USB-A
•    USB 4 supports speeds up to 40Gbps.
•    USB 3.1 supports speeds up to 10 Gbps.
•    USB 3.0 supports speeds up to 5 Gbps.
•    USB 2 supports speeds up to 480Mbps.
•    USB1 supports speeds up to 12Mbps.

Firewire (6 Gbps)   

Any system that supports either USB 3.0 or higher can easily handle the 900 to 1025Mbps that the drives mention in this thread are capable of.
In actual situations, many of these max speeds are rarely achieved. 

Edited April 16, 2022 by TheSteven