I adore this chunky, reliable external SSD, so for a third off the 4 TB version I will absolutely recommend it in a heartbeat

pcgamer.com:

SanDisk Desk Drive | 4 TB | USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 | 1,000 MB/s | $379.99 $268.99 at Amazon (save $111)
This external SSD is only 'portable' in the sense that a laptop is 'portable'—you're not going to be putting one in your pocket. But what you get is something incredibly capacious, reliable, and consistent, which is great for backups, important data, or giant libraries. For this heavily discounted price it's a solid choice.

The SanDisk Desk Drive isn't your usual external SSD. In lieu of the average drive's dinky chassis, this one is a bit of a paperweight-sized chonker. What justifies this heft, however, is its consistency and reliability, which I was pleasantly surprised with during testing for my review of the 8 TB version. So with this 4 TB version now being on sale for just $269 at Amazon, I will recommend it without hesitation.

It's called a Desk Drive presumably because you're supposed to keep it on your desk as a semi-permanent backup or storage solution. Yet it still retains its portability benefit in a pinch, provided you're willing to chuck all 268 g of it and its external power supply into your backpack.

That power supply, by the way, is one of the biggest benefits to a drive such as this. Having external, active power means you're less at risk of failed transfers or data corruption due to janky power-over-USB. If you have a software, firmware, or straight-up system power delivery issue, these will be less likely to affect the drive as it's not being powered via the same USB connection it's using for data transfer.

The downside to this, of course, is that you have to have a spare socket going to plug the thing in. But if you want this level of reliability, that's a sacrifice you should be willing to make.

One primary use case for the SanDisk Desk drive might be as a portable media library for content creators—gaming YouTubers, for instance. If you need to store lots of large, important video files, you're going to want storage that has a lot of capacity (4