Review on 💾 Verbatim 120GB Vx500 External SSD: High-Speed USB 3.1 Gen 2, Graphite (47441) by Adam Stone

I love this nifty little 120GB Vx500 from Verbatim. It's small, light, fits easily in a jacket pocket and is suitable for easy uploading and downloading of files. In fact, my only problem came with stress testing large file transfers. I didn't follow closely, but of course the drive thermally throttled badly before 50GB of data was written to it. At this point it became slower than a regular hard drive - for writing data. At this point read speeds were still great, around 420MB/s on my 2014 Mac mini via USB 3.0. However, the write speed dropped from 365 MB/s to 45-70 MB/s. I took some screenshots that are attached to this review. At this point the disk was quite hot. After the drive had been running for a while, normal speed was restored, but keep this in mind when writing large amounts of data to this drive in short bursts. The reading speed did not change here either. , what is good! All in all, this is a great ride. The only issue is throttling, but that shouldn't be a problem for most people. 4 out of 5. Good.