Love TSA? Well, if you take Lenovo’s brand new external SSD that looks just like a hand grenade with you to the airport, you’ll spend a lot more time with them! In fact, I’d prepare for airport security to get very familiar with you.
After completely fulfilling its crowdfunding goal, the Savior Tactical Mobile SSD — inspired by the recent Chinese war blockbuster Operation Dragon (you may know it as Operation Leviathan) — may not have the specs to be considered for our list of best external SSDs, but this explosive accessory definitely caught my attention (sorry, couldn’t resist).
It’s only available through Lenovo’s Chinese crowdfunding page (so you won’t be able to go beyond the landing page without using one of the best VPNs). But even if you do so, I cannot emphasize enough: do not take this to an airport or pull it out in public.
Pull the pin
So when you dig into the specs, you start to realize that there is substance to this questionable style. USB-C 3.2 connectivity gives it the compatibility and capability of high speeds, but at expected speeds of up to 1,050 MB/s, this is middle of the road in terms of speed. Not to say that’s a bad thing, though — you’re still getting decently quick loading speeds from a plug and play drive.
“Expected” is carrying a lot of weight here, as much as the expectation is for this to have 1TB of storage. Assumptions are being made here that this drive will use the same Lenovo Legion SSD tech we see here in the U.S.
Buy this instead
If you’d rather not have a brush-in with TSA, I’ve got just the thing for you.
It may be a little bit more than this 599 Yuan (roughly $80) drive, but with a supremely durable design that is definitely not going to get you on the wrong side of a physical screening process, SanDisk’s Extreme Pro Portable SSD is a far safer (and faster) alternative.
This is the drive I use every day, and it’s a serious beast. Yes, I know that you could get the standard Extreme portable SSD for $97 (which has the same read speeds as Lenovo’s grenade), but future-proofing yourself for ever-increasing file sizes is more worthwhile!
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