SABRENT Rocket Nano 2TB USB 3.2 10Gb/s External Aluminum SSD (Silver) (SB-2TB-NANO)

Okay, so I am a filmmaker and shoot on a 4k camera setup. I shoot Cinema DNG files (raw) on my Sigma FP. It's a small camera and the last thing I want is a SSD taking up a lot of real estate. I did some digging and found the Sabrent Rocket Nano. Man, this thing blows away the Samsung T5 and all others. First off, its tiny!!It's all aluminum body is 2 3/4" X 1 2/16" X 1/2"!! Second it's a 2TB drive with sustained Read/Write speeds of around 900 MB/s! That is ridiculously fast compared to Samsung's 500MB/s, so I get no dropped frames or any other type of file corruption. Also, there is absolutely no formatting or setup with the Nano. I literally just plugged it in and shot. The 2TB nano shooting 4k Cinema DNG at 12bit gives me 1h50m record time. It also comes with a short (6 inch) USB C to USB C Thunderbolt 3 cable as well as a short (10 inch) USB A to USB C cable. The drive works on USB C or Thunderbolt 3 computers since it is backwards compatible. It comes in a cool aluminum case. This is a no brainer purchase. I know everyone uses the Samsung T5 or SanDisk or AngleBird and so did I. But this is smaller, faster and built extremely well. Now, if only SmallRig could design a clamp for it, all would be perfection.

I purchased the 2TB version and have been using it daily for several weeks. It operates a LOT faster than any USB thumb drive or the fastest SD card. I have hooked it up to a pretty fast, latest generation ThinkPad running Windows 10, with USB3.1 (10Gbit/sec speed) and find the Rocket Nano to be amazingly useful.A beautiful feature of this drive is that I can also plug it into my Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and read/write files using my phone. No extra adapters or drivers were needed to use it on my smart phone.I have not tried it on a MAC yet, but if you format the drive in exFAT, then a MAC or PC (or Android) device can access the files.It's as fast as my computer's internal SSD on reads. The write speed is something that varies with the type of files you are writing. If you're copying very large files, such as an ISO from a DVD movie, the speed is "wicked fast". When backing up my business files, which are hundreds of small files under 2MB in size, the write speed is noticeably slower. However, even with writing small files, this drive is still FAR faster than the fastest uSD cards.Writing a single 1.7GB file took 7.89 seconds... about 215MB/second.Writing a directory that was 4.30GB, containing files that average about 6MB in size, took 30.38 seconds... around 141.5MB/seconds.Note: when writing a huge amount of data at once, such as loading the drive with a 900GB file transfer, it does get quite hot. I accidentally forced it into thermal shutdown during such a large file transfer, but no data was lost and the drive was not damaged. When thermal shutdown occurred, I cancelled the file transfer and disconnected it from my PC. Waiting 30-40 seconds for it to cool off and then plugging it into my USB-C port again allowed the remainder of my transfer to be completed. I seriously doubt that many users will experience thermal shutdown... I was really "beating on it", transferring nearly 1TB of CAD files all at once.

This thing is just awesome. It is really small, I had samsung ssd small portables before this, but this has a smaller footprint. It is thicker but overall it is tiny. I was a little scared reading all the slow reviews, but I can say that I think the people who are getting 40 mbs may have a port issue. I use usb 3.1 type a connector to usb c on the drive and get around 300 mbs on my desktop, on my laptop that has a thunderbolt usb c port, I was getting over 600 mbs... that blows all my other ssd's away. But today I connected a usb c cord directly to the back of my botherboard usbc port, and got only 40 mbs. But when I tried the same connection with my samsung it was the same result so something is up with that port, I will look maybe internally it is connected to a usb 2 or 3 slot instead of a usb c. But it isn't a reflection of the drive, because on dedicated usb c ports that were not self built computers it rocks, on usb 3.1 ports it rocks! The only thing is that it does get really hot, but the minute you stop transferring the heat is pretty much gone, and even though it was hot I didn't see a speed decrease. I have an external enclosure for a m.2 drive and they all get hot when using them. So this was worth every penny in my book. I love that I got a full 2gb... worth it! Hopefully it lasts since I keep my data on it!