[Intel Certified] TEKQ 960G Protable Thunderbolt 3 External SSD PCIe NVMe SSD Inside Bus Powered 2450MB/s Read, 1850MB/s Write (NOT Compatible with Device Without Thunderbolt 3 Interface)(Silver)

Best TB3 external SSD on the market. Incredibly fast and, probably the biggest selling point for me, the cable is not permanently affixed - allowing me to use the Apple Thunderbolt 3 cable. Expensive device but well worth the cost. I use mine as a constant cloned backup so if my hard drive fails I can pick up right where I was without sacrificing speed.

Works well with iMac pro. Recommended.

Small, well-built, great case design & materials, and fast as advertised.

Tested on MBP 2017, getting 2400 read and 1400 write. Popped in a 970 EVO from Samsung, and I'm getting 2600 read and 1800 write! Not sure how that's possible. Using Blackmagic from the Mac App Store. Tried a few other benchmark tools, and they showed the same. Insane speeds.My recommendation: Buy the 240GB, buy a 2TB Samsung 970 m.2 EVO in a higher capacity, put it in this, and you'll have a screaming TB3 external drive for nearly half the cost of the OWC solution, and really anything else on the market at the moment.Crazy stuff. Love it. Can't speak to reliability yet, but first impressions are that it's built extremely solidly, and dissipates heat really well. That means the enclosure gets warm, but that's a good thing. Means the heat is getting out.

I like storage devices and it seems now is like a golden age with the advances being made in this field with such technologies as Thunderbolt 3 and the latest NVMe PCIe SSDs. It seems to be field where quantum leaps are being made. We thought USB 3.1 Gen 2 and Thunderbolt 2 were fast. To quadruple the speed over those two incumbent interfaces is quite an amazing to observe.I'm not a video or graphics pro although I do handle high-res video and photo files for my business every now and then. So my needs are modest but I've been curious about Thunderbolt 3 and now I'm delving fully into it after I recently purchased the new MBP 15.4" to replace a 2015 MBP 13.3" and to complement a late-2015 iMac 27" 5K in my home office. I split my time between home and work office and go on 3-week business trips to Asia once a quarter so an upgrade was definitely in order.I first acquired the HP P800 TB3 1TB SSD for strictly archiving large studio-shot photo files of products and demo videos in the work office and it's been great. It truly blew me away to see 2GB files being transferred in about a second. I've used the very portable Samsung T3 USB 3.1 SSD for usage on the road and that's been a very nice and reliable performer as well but I decided to splurge on the best possible to go with my new MBP for personal home office usage and started doing some research.I discovered this TEKQ Rapide TB3 SSD and it fit the bill. I went "all out" and got the Samsung PRO 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD to replace the SSD in the enclosure and it really is blazing fast. I can tell it outperforms the HP P800 although I'm not a geek and don't use disk speed test apps like Blackmagic. It easily transfers 2GB HD movie files in less than a second and that's more than fast enough for me.I can see that pro videographers will get the most benefit out of this than I ever will since they often deal with video files that are dozens of GB. Those guys *need* something like this. For someone like me, it's a great luxury to have and enjoy. I also like to store and play all my high-res audio (DSD, FLAC, ALAC) files and HD movies from high-speed external drives than having them on my computers. Obviously, these SSDs can more than handle such tasks.The TEKQ enclosure has a very nice and sturdy build quality and is quite attractive to boot. It'll fit in your front pant pocket and it's kind of amazing to ponder that you can have your entire life's worth of music, movies, photos, files, books and whatever else in the palm of your hand. Having a cable port is great as well. I definitely didn't care for the HP P800's built-in short cable and it's also a bit heavy and bulky (although also very attractive) so it's staying put in the work office.So, all in all, this TEKQ SSD is the best external drive I've ever had the pleasure of using. It's very well built, is ridiculously fast, is super portable and looks very cool to boot. Attached is a photo of the TEKQ and the Samsung T3 with a guitar pick put in there to get a perspective on their respective sizes. I have the CalDigit TS3+ TB3 hubs that I now use at both work and home offices to connect the peripherals to the MBP and they're great. Just one cable from the MBP to the hub makes it very easy to move the MBP around.Super happy with the MBP, the CalDigit hub and this TEKQ SSD. It's like the future has arrived all of a sudden! Having used PCs and Macs since the 80's dealing with floppy disks less than 1MB and such things, I can truly appreciate the marvels that modern technologies offer.

I have the 960GB (1TB) TekQ thunderbolt three drive. I bought to use with my Lenovo Extreme x1. It was working fine for about a month and then it would crash my laptop (BSOD) everytime I plugged in. I have not been able to solve this problem and the drive is useless at this time.

First off like other verified purchasers have said connection cable is a bit loose, doesn't give confidence, that said mine sat on my desk and didn't move once plugged in. Does get hot. Transfer speed is amazing 15min vs 9 hours. Like internal SSD quick. Certainly the technology to have - But after 3 months its just died, light is on but no one at home. Tekq will replace so long as I return the dead drive.....OK, but for £370 in Nov2019 and now Feb2020 certainly fair I guess. But, now that the drive is dead it could just be a chip issue and/or new Mac software or just an over heat issue on a part the actual data could be safe and readable once disassembled etc. - OK mine was encrypted as per GDPR, but in 3 years would that encryption hold up as it does today, I don't know....so basically left with a dead drive I can't return - until this tech is mature I would sadly avoid - also check other verified 1 star verified reviews on other SSDs, it would seem to be a mine field out there, good luck! 2 hours of searching for a replacement and no obvious contenders yet so out of pocket both financially and in time and I haven't moved data back yet at likely slower speeds!