1TB PRO-Blade Transport - Portable and Modular NVMe SSD, Up to 2000MB/s, USB-C, USB 3.2 gen 2x2, Solid State Drive - SDPM2NB-001T-GBAND

Bought this SanDisk pro-blade transport system... Did not get to it until after return date... IT WAS DEFECTIVE. My mistake. After some arm twisting... I received a full refund and a new pro-blade eventually. Works great!

I got 3 SanDisk Pro Blade 4T and one Pro Blade Transport, totaling about $1000, because I've heard great things about them, and I needed a storage solution. I installed them fine, with no problems. I loaded them up with everything I needed backups of, and the next day, NOTHING...... No matter what I do, none of them will work. They won't show up on my disk utility, and they won't show up in Finder. Macbook M3 Pro. I get that things happen, but I really got pissed when I called Sandisk. Absolutely zero help at all. I could barely understand them, and they couldn't offer any solutions other than sending them ALL in for warranty, or I could buy another transport to see if that is what is at fault. So frustrating, I dont have the words.......I am happy to change my rating if and when I get a solution for these $1000 paperweights. Also, when I went on the SanDisk page to register them, none of the serials were recognized with Sandisk, and I purchased them from the Sandisk shop on Amazon.

Is it pricy? Yes. Was it worth it? Also yes. I love this thing. It allows me to take my design files with me without having multiple chunky drives. Now I can just buy another tiny blade drive when I need more storage and they take up practically no space in my bag. It’s also extremely fast and reliable.

Recommended for those who need better read/write speeds for editing and streaming information or content from their devices, such as games, videos, photography, and high-fidelity design work. Note: You will have to set it up through CMD (Command Prompt) and Disk Management in Windows; however, if you do not know this method, it is easy to Google (or AI lookup) for how to. Additionally, onc eyou do compelte this method, it allows greater control over your Drive Name/Letter and otherwise more customization. - I did have to reorder and send back the first one due to errors of the system itself not working and no devices being able to register or read the drive, but the replacement worked, and I am enjoying it very much for my workflow now.

I've been using my Sandic problade for about a year now and it's been awesome. I like the interchangeable storage design. I initially purchased the pro blade so I could use it with my Lumix s5m2x and record directly to an SSD but have since been using it for mass storage in general. I like being able to organize projects physically by drive. The pro blade has become my recording and mass storage system Its a but expensive to buy into the ecosystem which is what will probably turn most people off but the convenience is worth it for me.

The blade/stick solution is certainly a clever design. After so many formats now gone, the main question is the life span and consequently availability of this format in the next several years. The desk multi-blade boxes are currently too expensive where this system may not gain enough popularity to be still offered i.e. 5 years from now. The stick/blades commend premium cost which cal also limit its market life cycle. Cost reduction and 8TB, 12TB introductions could help. Update 09/26. The 4TB mag I just received via Amazon was unsealed and appeared to be previously used. Not sure wether or not to return it.. Update 10/09/24. The SanDisk blade ecosystem could use a dual-bay reader in addition to the too expensive and too bulky 4-bay unit. A raid provision could be added as well.

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Highly recommend if speed and flexibility matter to you.