SanDisk Professional 2TB PRO-Blade SSD Mag - Portable & Modular NVMe SSD Mag, Ultra-Durable - SDPM1NS-002T-GBAND

Incredible, versatile, small, lightweight, fast. Great pairing for my Kondor Blue grip + hub rig for my iPhone 16 Pro filmmaking jobs.

so far so great, works well with very fast speeds, its bigger than I expected but its high quality and comes with everything needed other than the drives.

Update: The second unit failed after 90 days. DO NOT PURCHASE !!! I purchased this unit, along with several of the Blade SSD magazines, less than ten months ago. Today, I noticed the station was not lit up. Apparently, the internal power has failed. Plugging/unplugging results in fast fan action, then nothing. My suspicion is because the station tends to runs very hot when operating (sometimes the SSD magazine are scorching) something has burned out internally. It sells with a five-year warranty, but be prepared to go through a lot of hoops to even get an RMA started. Up until today it has operated well, but now, since I am so invested in the ecosystem, I feel I need to have a backup unit on hand in case of failure. "Professional" is not a word I would attach to this product as we tend to put a lot of demands on our hard drives and storage media and expect more. Shipping back to SanDisk next week for replacement.

I use this for encrypted (medical image) data necessary for work that I can keep separate from the computer's main storage. They are very large files and I needed a fast drive to be able to use this when working with the files. It is twice as fast as my previous external SSD solution and there is no lag. The drive does disconnect if idle for too long and I get a drive removal error but I have not had any issues beyond this. The removable media model probably adds to the expense but the thought of having multiple sticks instead of individual drives is appealing although I'm not sure it really saves much space. If you need a very fast drive with adaptable storage, this is a good solution.

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 systemIts 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.

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.

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.

Very reliable. I use the "Blade" for storage, and retrieving of photos while tethering a photo session. Along with a Sandisk desk top hard drive, it's my go to system.