Fantom Drives Extreme 2TB External SSD - 2800MB/s, Thunderbolt 3 and 4, USB Type-C, Aluminum, 3D NAND TLC, TB3X-2300N2TB

Works perfect, I benched the speed also and its pretty high as advertised. The speed it self when you transfer huge projects files its really fast ! Its expensive tho but if you got the money, worth it !

Many years ago, I was an assistant editor on a mid-budget Hollywood film. Since digital, non-linear editing was still a new thing, our studio had assigned a special technician to the show, to answer our many questions and to generally keep us happy. Our tech made a comment once, while exchanging removable 100GB units from within our custom-built drive tower (these units were the size of small watermelons and weighed about 20lbs each!) He said that one day — in the *future* — wed be able to hold *1TB* drives in the palms of our hands, and that theyd be the *size of credit cards* The eXtreme Im now holding is actually 2TB, and its read/write speeds are surreal. This futuristic object plugs in like a line jack into a console, and exchanges data at rates not seen in systems costing less than $5,000. Im blown away by its utility, and have no complaint whatever about its use. This is a device from the future we were all promised, which will be useful far into our own future, as well…

I never do reviews, but I will for the FD Extreme. This thing is as well-built and almost feels like solid metal (a little heavier than average, and a little thicker). Cool to the touch...overall best of dozens of external SSDs in speed and quality.

I have struggled for years to find a reliable and fast back-up system that would play nice with my Time Machine. Other drives were large (not really portable), and my operating system consistently had trouble finding them. Well, no more. Kudos to Fantom Drives Extreme 2TB External SSD - you are reliable, fast, extremely portable, and a breeze to use.

Love it, o ya issue is the cord is magnetic and sometimes disconnects when I move my laptop

Set the FD drive up for my new Time Machine to my mid 2020 iMac Thunderbolt 3. Just plug and go. Fast! Had to use it to restore my iMac after a memory failure required a complete wipe disc, and reinstall Big Sur. Getting my apps and data that use 400gb was quick! Less than 20 minutes. Getting another one for expansion. My iMac only has a 500gb SSD.

This TBT3 drive is fast. Love the extreme speed I get out of this ext drive. Windows 10 Pro on Intel NUC 10 i7. Runs fairly warm but the performance is amazing. Worth the $$$ but not cheap.

The best and fastest way to adding more storage to m1, m2 pro. This thing is amazing, I never used a thunderbolt ssd and when I tried this for the first time I was blown away at how fast it is. I have the sandisk pro extreme witch I thought was fast coming from a HDD but this fantom drive is so fast it’s insane. A super large folder with thousands of files usually takes days to transfer with a HDD or 1-2 hours with the fastest SSD, but with this thunderbolt it takes less than 5 minutes to do both copying and pasting. I can edit 4k videos directly from the drive with ease. What makes this better in my opinion than any other thunderbolt ssd out there is the size and build. This drive is hands down the smallest self power thunderbolt ssd. The next option is OWC which is a good option but this fantom has the latest technology and it’s smaller. The drive is made in Taiwan not China and then assembled in the USA. Mind you the high speed it’s only noticeable if you have a Mac with thunderbolt port to utilize the full speed. When I use it on my iMac 2017 it’s fast like the sandisk but not like when using the thunderbolt port.

The SSD on my 2 year old iMac started going bad and I am now using this device as a boot drive. Works great!

When I bought my current MacBook Pro, I configured it with a small SSD, figuring I could always put in a larger one later, as I had always done in the past. But since Apple decided to start making $3K disposable computers, thats no longer an option. Luckily, the Thunderbolt ports are super fast and so is this external SSD. So far, I love it. Testing with Blackmagic, its just about as fast as the Sabrent Rocket. (Write speeds are slightly faster, read speeds are slightly slower.) The aluminum case feels nice and solid. The detachable cable is nice as well. I had two Sabrents that failed at the attached cable. Also, this Fantom drive has a 5 year warranty. Sabrent only offers 3 years with registration.