Western Digital introduced new external SSD drives with impressive parameters

The Western Digital brand enjoys huge popularity thanks to its great products. Now it also comes with additional portable SSD drives with a capacity of up to 4 TB, bringing amazing speed combined with large storage. Customers and professional users will thus gain more space for their creativity. The new discs are designed to keep up with current demands for high-quality digital content. The quad drives offer gamers, digital content creators, enthusiasts and creative professionals the performance, durability and increased capacity they need to capture, store and transfer their digital content.

“This milestone allows us to deliver new-era solutions with the capacity and performance that customers have been demanding. Our consumer brand products are used by millions of professionals and customers around the world. We continue to push our technology forward to deliver the performance, reliability and superior products you demand,” says Jim Welsh, Western Digital's vice president and general manager of consumer solutions.

Western Digital is focused on providing industry-leading solutions that can keep up with the rich digital content created by consumers and professionals. Whether using a smartphone to capture family milestones, backing up or expanding a video library, or shooting a film in a studio or on location, a wide range of products is always ready to reliably store today's bulky files of digital content. 

“As a chief cinematographer in a television and film production, I rely on technology to help me achieve my creative visions and protect the outcome of my work. SanDisk SSDs are key equipment when I'm on location or in the studio working with 12K or 8K cameras,” says Sam Nicholson, ASC, member of the SanDisk Extreme Team, adding: “High-capacity, high-performance SSDs make it easy to reliably manage these files. SanDisk Extreme Pro portable drives are my first choice when filming outside of the studio. With the additional capacity, I have more freedom to create unique digital content.”

A strong portfolio of portable external SSD drives with a capacity of 4 TB

New products in Western Digital's 4TB* SSD portfolio offer an unrivaled combination of performance and capacity to help power today's rich digital world.

SanDisk Extreme Pro^® Portable SSD

• Save time when storing and transferring data with a powerful NVMe™ SSD solution with up to 2000MB/s** read speed and 2000MB/s** write speed. The unibody aluminum chassis serves as a heatsink to ensure sustained high speeds. All in a compact, portable size.
• Price and Availability: The SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD 4TB* External SSD will be available later this quarter at select retailers and distributors, as well as the Western Digital Store. The recommended final price is EUR 982. 

SanDisk Extreme^® Portable SSD

• It delivers NVMe SSD performance with read speeds of up to 1050MB/s** and write speeds of up to 1000MB/s** in a portable, high-capacity drive that's perfect for creating unique content or capturing incredible footage.
• The hard drive can withstand a drop of up to two meters, meets IP55 standards and is dust and water resistant.¹
• Price and availability: The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD 4TB* external will be available later this quarter at select retailers and distributors, as well as the Western Digital Store. The recommended final price is EUR 857.

WD_Black^® P50 Game Drive SSD 

• Tailored for PC gamers, the drive is shaped by the performance of SSD technology with read speeds of up to 2000MB/s**, reducing screen load times. This will get players into the game faster.
• Expanding capacity using premium storage allows you to store new games, the storage is compatible with a library of game titles for PC, PlayStation™ 4 or Xbox One™.
• Pricing and Availability: The WD_Black P50 Game Drive External SSD will be available later this quarter at select retailers and distributors, as well as the Western Digital Store. The recommended final price is EUR 862.

My Passport^® SSD from WD® 

• A bold metal design that is both durable and stylish. The drive withstands shocks and vibrations and drops from a height of 1,98 m (6,5 ft). It comes in colors including grey, blue, red, gold and silver.
• With blazing speeds of up to 1050MB/s** read and 1000MB/s** write, NVMe technology enables digital content creators, managers and other enthusiasts to keep up the pace of productivity.
• Pricing and Availability: The external 4TB* My Passport SSD will be available later this quarter at select retailers and distributors, as well as the Western Digital Store. The recommended final price is EUR 857.