Lexar 2TB ES3 Portable SSD, Up to 1050MB/s Read & 1000MB/s Write, Compatible with PC & Mac, Tablets & iPad, External Solid State Drive, Silver (LES3XXX002T-RNSAU)

An SSD that saved my Gaming Life
After getting a more recent upgrade to my laptop (and by that I mean getting a new one completely), I was in need of a hard drive to hold the video games I owned. The new laptop I got, I chose to sacrifice space for performance. I don’t necessarily play a lot of Triple A games or anything, but I play enough games that do require a lot of space and some rather impressive graphics either way. Previously I was using a rather updated and fancy external hard drive to run them all from.While these games did run fine from the external hard drive, they were slow, clanky, and did have loading and connection issues. Nothing game breaking per say, but definitely extremely frustrating to wait on a loading screen for 10 minutes because the game has to load from a hard drive instead of a a SSD. The external hard drive I used was extremely new, and touted one of the best options for external hard drives that you could buy for gaming.But it wasn’t making me happy. After experiencing one of the games I had the most issue with on my actual SSD after making the transfer for convenience sake, it was time for me to find a better hard drive–or a portable SSD. When I found this one, I’d done a lot of research, and I settled with this one simply because I wanted to be extra. My new laptop doesn’t have RGB lighting, and so, why not be extra and get an external SSD that does?Originally the truth was I wanted it only because I was growing frustrated by the lengthy loading screens and the issues with downloads. I was being extra. It wasn’t necessary for me to have this. It was something of just… convenience out of annoyance. That was what I thought anyway.The truth ended up being so much different. I expected the external SSD to not function nearly as fast or accurate as the actual SSD in my laptop, but I was so pleasantly surprised. All my games ran smoothly, so smoothly that I literally sat shocked at how previously a loading screen that stayed for 10 minutes, I couldn’t even check the alert on my phone with the new transfer. I’d loaded so quickly, that a single notification on my phone I couldn’t properly look at because I was already loaded into the game and having no issues.I thought surely there would be speed issues. That i’d have at least some clunky gameplay or small issues. I had none of them. The SSD did so much more than I was expecting. What felt like originally something I didn’t need, I suddenly couldn’t live without. What I thought would just be nice to have for a faster loading screen, instead became essential. Add in the fact I have a rainbow all the time now on my laptop while playing games that before were struggling a bit due to the external HDD I had? I felt my gaming life improve ten fold.The hard drive is fast, sleek, comes with it’s own stand, has multiple USB options for transfers. I had no issue with transferring data between it and my laptop (I will say I do have a more updated USB connection so I’m able to get full speeds but even so). It was absolutely up to date, quick, had no glitches, nothing. The external SSD took what I’d been struggling with in non Triple AAA games, and made it look like they never existed.If you think that you might only want this to update something or that it might only make a small difference, I can tell you now, it will make a world of difference. This external SSD has made my gaming life so much easier, smoother, and perfect in ways I cannot describe. If you’re debating it? Stop. It’s totally worth it point blank.

Excellent external SSD
Item works as advertised. I have used this on a Windows 10, 11 and on MacOS 15.5 (Sequoia). Very fast and and works great.

6+ months of use, review time
So I ordered this awhile ago, roughly 6-7 months. I love that its small. Takes up no space at all. The lights are nice, and the space is great. I use this for gaming.I have world of Warcraft, diablo4, pathofexile, starfield, and various other games on it. It writes somewhat fast but it slows down during downloads. I knew it wouldn’t be as fast as my built in nvme SSDSo I don’t mind the time it takes to download a game onto it. If cyberpunk takes 35 minutes to download on my PC, it’ll take roughly 2 hours on the external.Using the thunderbolt c USB didn’t make any difference in speed. No USB slot changed read/write speeds but again I knew it was expected.Most games play really well on it, a few might take an extra minute to load in but it’s ok. I’ve never had issues on the games I play. Some games actually won’t play well on it. (New world). That was a bad experience but transferring it onto my Ssd was easy and then it ran well. If some MMOs had better support for external ssds, this would be the best one I’ve owned. Don’t let that deter you from buying, this SSD is really great for the price and does work really well for most gaming.

Defective on 1st use.
Only lasted 15 minutes during first use. Was coping some family pictures to take to family’s house and windows stop reading it 15 minutes after starting the copy of 1 TB of videos and pictures. Will not read on OC or laptop when trying to get data back.

1Tb – The outside case feels like metal. Seems to help with heat dissipation. The supplied cable is high speed and works well. I bought two more of these. Recommended.

fast

al parecer rápido en lectura y escritura, pero para mi gusto pensé que podría ser mejor para trabajar en él material directamente desde premiere como lo hago con otra marca, no es necesariamente fluido en es caso