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The PNY Pro Elite 1TB External SSD is more than capable of beating Samsung’s product thanks to its Gen 2 interface and a slightly lower price. The Samsung T5 has finally met its match. Note that there’s another Pro Elite product in the PNY family, a USB 3.0 Flash drive, that is slower but also far, far smaller. But you won’t be able to beat it for value for money. It doesn’t have a Type-C connector as well. It is ruggedised but not waterproof and uses QLC technology which makes it slower than others. It is far bigger than the T5 or the Pro Elite but some may prefer its more pragmatic design it has an orange loop for example which makes it more visible.Ī special mention for the Adata SD600Q which is currently on sale for less than $100 at Amazon.

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The Sandisk 1TB Extreme portable external SSD doesn’t do Gen 2 USB but it is ruggedised and water/dust resistant with a lovely cable adaptor and a 3-year manufacturer's warranty. Like the PNY model, you get a 3-year warranty with the added benefit of AES 256 bit hardware encryption and a choice of colours. The 1TB version of the Samsung T5 costs just under $165 at Amazon with the 2TB model retailing for $269.99, making it a far better deal if your budget stretch to there. In comparison, the OWC Aura P12, which is a Thunderbolt 3 drive, achieved 181 seconds, it is also far more expensive. Not shabby at all and better than the Sandisk Extreme, for example. Using the former ports, we achieved some remarkable numbers, 832MBps/881MBps write/read with ATTO and managed to transfer 100GB of data in 267 seconds, an average, real life transfer rate of about 374MBps. We used the Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 convertible laptop from 2018 it has two Thunderbolt 3 ports and two Type-C Gen 1 ports. Likely that it uses 3D TLC NAND (like the XLR8 range from PNY) from one of the direct competitors of the brand.Īs for its performance, it was as good as it gets, provided that you have a compatible Type-C USB Gen 2 device. We don’t know much about the internals of the drive other that the fact that it is UASP-enabled, with SMART, NCQ and TRIM. As expected, it does get warm under use as the billions of transistors trapped inside the aluminum chassis generate heat that then needs to be dissipated via the casing.

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The Pro Elite was formatted ExFat when we received it with a formatted capacity of 931GB and no bundled software (note that it is not compatible with Linux). PNY claims that the drive would be able to reach up to 900MBps and 890MBps in read and write speeds respectively when used with Gen 2 connectors, which, in theory, can reach up to 10Gbps (or 1.25GBps), that’s a theoretical unachievable limit. Here’s how the PNY Pro Elite 1TB External SSD performed in our benchmark tests:ĬrystalDiskMark: 484MBps (read) 688MBps (write)Ītto: 881MBps (read, 256mb) 832MBps (write, 256mb)ĪS SSD: 720MBps (seq read) 637MBps (seq write)

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