Macworld - USA (2022-01)

JANUARY 2022 MACWORLD 27

Apple Silicon, but not the true potential

of the drive. We tested the drive on

PCWorld’s testbed to get a clearer

picture of that. In total, the drive was

easily the fastest 10Gbps USB we’ve

tested as you’ll see below.

The CrystalDiskMark 6 tests run on

sister publication PCWorld’s test rig are

48GB real-world transfer tests.

48GB COPIES

Seconds

Total Time

HIGHER SCORES ARE BETTER

48GB Folder

Write

48GB Folder

Read

48GB Write

48GB Read

495

574

604

571

183

195

224

227

173

225

207

186

79

72

96

86

60

82

77

72

SanDisk G-Drive SSD SanDisk Extreme Portable Pro SSD

LaCie Portable SSD Seagate FireCuda Gaming SSD

The drive is preformatted to HFS+, but
you can reformat it to exFAT if you want to
share data with Windows machines, or
NTFS if you only write from Windows PCs.
SanDisk includes both Type-C to Type-C
and Type-C to Type-A USB cables.
WD didn’t provide a TBW rating.
However, the drive is warrantied for five
years, which is a nice bump up from the
more common three years.

PERFORMANCE
We haven’t been getting very good USB
performance out of our new 24-inch
iMac, so take the Disk Speed Test results
(shown below) as what you might see on

For whatever reason, USB 10Gbps
performance on the Macworld M1 iMac is
slower than it was on our Mini, which is
disappointing, as others have pointed out.