Review on 💾 2TB USB-C (USB 3.2 Gen2) NVMe Portable SSD by Helix - Speeds Up to 950 MB/S by Richard Orozco

I bought this to have a fast SSD to use as an external backup/boot drive for my MacBook Pro (13" Touch Bar, Late 2016) as well as extra storage to backup Image files and videos can use travel. I wrote an initial review which didn't show up but went back to check anyway. I hope this actually gets published. At first I was impressed with the speed as I usually saw 950MB/s. But. It reads infinitely fast, but when I write to it, it slows down after about 10GB copies of MacOS Finder, dropping from 900+ MB/s to just about 200MB/s. When I use Digilloyd Tools Disktester it is much worse and slows down after about 1.5GB. It's *much* better for my use as a backup boot drive after all: backing up my 1TB boot drive with SuperDuper went from 1-1.5 hours on a spinning drive to 15 minutes with this unit. More importantly, if I boot my Mac from it, it's usable; It just wasn't possible to use it to boot from portable hard drives. I have to say that it gets **very** hot when copying a lot of data over a long period of time. I mean, it's uncomfortable to keep warm in your hand. It doesn't seem to bother him, but it bothers me that the electronics get so hot. (And that's just from the outside, I can only imagine how hot the SSD module gets inside.) Overall, it's fine for my main use and is just insanely small, which is great for travel. I don't know how it's going to hold up against something like video editing, where data can be transferred back and forth regularly over a long period of time, and any use that relies heavily on write speed would be a poor match.