Western Digital Launches SanDisk Desktop SSD with up to 8 TB of Storage

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Western Digital is expanding its portfolio of SanDisk devices today with the new 8 TB SanDisk Desk Drive, a new external desktop SSD that is said to offer the highest amount of storage yet for products in its category.

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[LazyGamer]

1GB/s is pretty slow for a modern SSD...

 

[Brian_B]

1GB/s is pretty slow for a modern SSD...

It's external - that's not bad for an external drive.

Not sure if this is authoritative or not, but looks like most externals are clocking in well under 1GB read speeds. There is one listed that's faster, but it's Thunderbolt, not just USB C

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[LazyGamer]

It's external - that's pretty darn fast for an external drive.

USB 3.0 goes quite a bit faster, and then there's Thunderbolt - the SSDs themselves have eclipsed 1GB/s for a decade.

 

[Brian_B]

USB 3.0 goes quite a bit faster, and then there's Thunderbolt - the SSDs themselves have eclipsed 1GB/s for a decade.

The interfaces might, and an SSD can - but you actually have to have drives in enclosures that can do that, and I don't see too many.