SanDisk 8TB Desk Drive SSD – Desktop Exterior Stable State Drive, As much as 1000MB/s, USB-C, USB 3.2 Gen 2 – SDSSDT40-8T00-NA25​

An Excellent Drive for Photo Storage & Editing
Addressing the elephant in the room, this external requires its own power supply, it cannot simply run off of being connected to a computer. As uncommon as that is today, you should know it before purchasing and if that’s a deal breaker then you need a different external device. If that’s not an issue for you then I would highly recommend this drive. For me, the only limitation is bringing this drive in the field or maybe using It at an airport, which I personally wouldn’t do anyway. It’s not inconvenient to bring it from home to the office or using it in a hotel and even a lot of coffee shops have plugs near tables today. It simply depends on where you are going to need to use it.I use the 8tb with my MacBook Pro to house all of my 100K+ image library for Lightroom and Photoshop work. For the past several years I have shot with a Sony a7R III and Canon R5, both produce large raw files and editing them through this drive, especially complex edits, has been much faster than my prior drives. I do not do any video work, so I cannot speak to how well it would perform, but I would expect very well. The drive is responsive and fast, and (fortunately) I have not suffered from any connection issues. For a “portable” ssd it is on the chunky side, definitely not pocketable, but when sitting on my desk or a hotel bedside table I wouldn’t consider it oversized or inconvenient. I do think it is a bit too pricey, but currently, the options for an 8tb external ssd are limited. If you need (or just want) a large capacity external ssd I would highly recommend this drive, especially if you are considering using it as I do, to carry an image library and run edits through it.

Almost a 5 Star
Overall, I was very pleased with the product and would recommend it. You have to keep in mind, however, that it is compatible with Windows 10 and up (but not backwards). I did try to use it with an older Windows 7 laptop, hoping that it might work but it was not recognized. Again, that’s not the fault of the device, they were clear about the compatibility but you must be aware of this if you have an older computer. I had to work around it by moving files to an older external drive first and then move them to the Sandisk from there. I also ran into issues with the Acronis True Image software that came with it. It took forever to load and would not complete an image backup without errors. To be fair, this could be an issue with my computer but my computer is fairly new and has Windows 11, so I wasn’t expecting to have a problem. To work around this, I was able to switch to “EaseUS Todo – free” and it worked fine. Also moving files with Windows File Explorer worked fine. You also have to keep in mind that the advertised speed only applies to reading or writing directly to or from the Sandisk. When I moved files from other hard drives to the Sandisk, the copy process was much, much slower, probably due to the speed of the other devices. So, the only reason I gave it a 4 vs. a 5 was because, I kept running into issues that I had to resolve and I had hoped it would be a much smoother process. I had not had the problem with other external drives that I have. However, the Sandisk itself, when used as designed and mentioned in the specs, worked just fine. I am not disappointed in my purchase and recommend it for its quality and performance. It is small, made well, easy to use, and had very significant storage capacity. If you have a current, nice computer, it probably will be just fine.

LOST DATA | Power Adapter? | Disconnects | STAY AWAY
Who makes drives with power adapter in 2024? All of the external SSD drives that I saw, none of them have power adapter, but ok I thought, I use it on my desk and maybe it would be more reliable, NOPE!Drive gets very HOT, but then it would disconnect. WHAT? I though it was a fluke, so I kept itSince the work I do requires me to work on large files and my MAC doesn’t have enough space, I work directly on the drive.Second time it disconnected, the whole drive got corrupted. I see the partition, it is greyed out and it is not mounting, I’m pressing the button, but nothing happens. Lost 4 days of work for NO reasonJust stay away, it is not worth it

So far, so good !
High capacity SSD at a reasonable price. I got the read/write speeds as advertised!!! I’m using it specifically to access very large sound libraries for music production and for Lightroom photo editing and archiving.

主に映像編集や映像再生のために、このSSDを使用しています。電源付きのデスクトップタイプのSSDは、安定した動作で大容量ファイルの読み書きができるため、とても便利です。Millumin 4やMadmapperといった映像送出ソフトを使って長時間の映像を出力する際、8TBあれば8K映像（約2時間のProRes 422 HQ HLGデータ）を入れてスムーズに再生できます。また、映像編集では4K映像を5ストリーム同時に扱うくらいなら問題なく動作します。ファイル転送時には多少の発熱はありますが、CFexpress 2.0（2TB）の撮影データをコピーする際も、キャッシュ詰まりがなく安定した速度で転送できるため、現場での作業でも非常に助かっています。16TBモデルの発売が予定されているので、発売されたらぜひ購入したいと思っています。

Bought this to store my 5Gb+ photography collection of images yet to be processed….Fast, nice form factor/design, quiet (no moving parts I don’t think) and lots of storage space. Time will tell whether it will have the durability for long term storage. For now, I’m quite happy with it and can recommend if you can afford – it’s not cheap!