Integral SlimXpress Pro 4TB Portable SSD External Hard Drive: USB-C, 2000MB/s Read/Write, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, Compact Design, Plug & Play, Compatible with Mac, Windows PC, Android, Xbox, PlayStation

Great bit of kit ,small and portable with good read write speeds .

Small and neat, works fine, so far, with my iMac. Time will tell if it's ok, but so far, so good

Very good value external SSD drive, nice design and well made.

This drive as of writing was probably the cheapest 1TB External SSD with 1000MB/s advertised speed from a known brand. Given that a few years ago I paid not much less for the same capacity spinning HDD, I'd say it is a reasonable price.I have tested the speed and it is precisely as advertised: CrystalDiskMark reported 1000MB/s Read and 973MB/s write, broadly within the advertised speed. Though half my internal SSD speed of 2250MB/s read, it was 9x faster writing, as my internal SSD writes at about 110MB/s.This was with a direct USB C to C connection using the supplied cable.Note, if you do not have a USB-C port... buy a new adapter. The one included is pathetic, and speeds dropped to a sluggish 42MB/s - this is worse than half than a traditional external HDD, my Toshiba achieved 108MB/s via USB 3 connection..So in terms of the drives performance I cannot really fault it for my use case, mainly storing games and backups - upgrading from the HDD.Design: About the same length but half the width of my HDD, it is very portable. The black aluminium is a decent finish and does feel nicer than plastic enclosed drives, and should be durable. The edge of the drive has the size printed on it in a bit of a cheap-looking front, and the back has hideous regulatory symbols on it. The top is simply the integral logo.Packaging: Quite environmentally friendly - no plastic, just cardboard. Can't really be used to store the drive though, so straight into recycling it is.#Other features: None. Being a cheaper drive, there is so special software to go with it, hardware encryption or the like. I am not that bothered about this, it is plain and simple and does the job. An activity LED is something I miss compared to my HDD.Heat: It does get slightly warm to the touch after sustained write loads in particular.Suitability for gaming: Excellent, so far I have only quickly tried it with Honkai Star Rail and compared to the HDD it was far superior.

I’ve always liked the Integral brand and never had any problems with their products.Very good ssd although you need to plug it into the usb 3.2 gen 2 2x2 port to get the best speeds. Would recommend. Very quick 4TB version

I've used this a fair bit and it works well. Very small and very light so much easier to carry around than my previous one. Being solid state I don't need to worry about knocking it. The cable is very short so you have little choice where to put it but it is so light you can just plug it in and let it dangle. In terms of speed I am not sure it is much faster int he real world. I use it with PortableApps and I find the start up slower if anything. Once in use it feels more responsive though. It's probably down to the type of reads although I expected the opposite: small, distributed files read slower and large files are quicker than a traditional drive. That's just perceived not tested.

Misleading regarding 2,000 write speed, as you can see, I'm transferring files from my laptop to this external SSD, and it's going at 590MBs, far cry from the 2,000MBsIt's small and light, though I can't help but feel Sandisk may have been a better purchase considering their advertise write speed is around 1000MBs so I could expect it to be around 600MBs or so.

Bought this as a secondary back up device and have to say it works a treat. Copied music, films and all my work related files (Images documents and large print ready files) in quick time. Very handy size and 1TB is more than enough as a back up. Well worth the money.