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product_id: 371731339
title: "500GB Portable External SSD Up to 430MB/s USB 3.1 Type C Ultra-Light External Solid State Drive, Mini Portable Solid State Drive for Mac Windows Android Linux"
brand: "joiot"
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# 430MB/s blazing write speed Ultra-light 0.88oz portability Shockproof rugged aluminum body 500GB Portable External SSD Up to 430MB/s USB 3.1 Type C Ultra-Light External Solid State Drive, Mini Portable Solid State Drive for Mac Windows Android Linux

**Brand:** joiot
**Price:** € 118.91
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Carry Speed & Strength in Your Pocket — Never Miss a Beat!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** 500GB Portable External SSD Up to 430MB/s USB 3.1 Type C Ultra-Light External Solid State Drive, Mini Portable Solid State Drive for Mac Windows Android Linux by joiot
- **How much does it cost?** € 118.91 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- joiot enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted joiot brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Rugged Durability:** Shockproof aluminum alloy casing protects your data from drops, shocks, and even unexpected adventures.
- • **Featherweight Design:** At just 0.88oz and pocket-sized, carry your entire digital life effortlessly wherever you go.
- • **Blazing Fast Transfers:** Experience up to 430MB/s write speeds for seamless 4K video and large file handling.
- • **Universal Compatibility:** Plug-and-play with Mac, Windows, Android, Linux, and all USB Type-A/C devices—no adapters needed.
- • **Complete Ready-to-Go Kit:** Includes USB A to C cable, adapter, storage pouch, plus a 12-month warranty for peace of mind.

## Overview

The JOIOT 500GB Portable External SSD combines ultra-fast USB 3.1 Gen 2 speeds up to 430MB/s with a shockproof aluminum body and featherlight design. Compatible across Mac, Windows, Android, and Linux, it’s the perfect rugged, mini storage solution for professionals on the move who demand speed, durability, and universal connectivity.

## Description

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Review: Tougher than a Norwegian Elkhound during a Thunder Storm!! - My 6 month old Norwegian Elkhound decided this would make the perfect bone. I looked for my little drive for a few days. Then I had a thought cross my mind. Did the puppy bring this outside? Whelp a day later I decided I better check. I head out to inspect the yard. It had been thunder storming at that point for a few days. Finding all kinds of holes the puppy had dug filled to the brim with water. Mixing with the freshly over turned soil. Which made the contents of each hole kinda like a bad milkshake from McDonalds. While standing there in the rain going from hole to hole checking for my cherished little hard drive. All I could think about was how long it would take me to rebuild another drive with the data this one had on it. Especially if I ended up finding it in one of those dog made lakes. I was on my 4th hole before I saw it there in the lawn.... floating in one of my puppies secret cache of chewable goodies... My heart sank along with one end of the drive into the murky water. I reached down and picked it out of the doggie lake while the water poured out of the drive. I cleaned it up shook it to get the water out. I then left it to dry for a few hours. It wad now time to test and find out if I was buying another drive and start the rebuild of all my data. I plugged in the cable to the drive and started to push in the USB-A side of the cable into my laptop. I wad waiting to see some error while the laptop was trying to mount the drive.... but to my surpirse.... No errors.... could it be true? So I click on the drive it opens and I see all my files. ... but will they work? You bet it did!! I was watching my movies again without skipping a beat .... I have been using that drive now everyday since it was turned into the Titanic.... This is the Perfect little drive! Had to reformat to FAT32 upon first use but works great! Fast enough to stream movies straight into my TV USB A port! Tough enough to be chewable dog bone and go for a swim..... Love it!! DO NOT HESITATE TO BUY THIS DRIVE!! IT WELL WORTH THE PRICE!!
Review: Speedy, will not boot RPI4, but can be used as rootfs. Is a 4k drive - This drive is pretty speedy! I'm running my Raspberry Pi 4 from it, and I'm quite happy. Note that you can't BOOT the pi from it, but you can have the next best thing.... You can run your RPi from it, but you do have to do the initial boot from the SDCard. Once booted, though, all the disk access is on the SDCard. A couple of things to be aware of: 1) This drive is a 4k sector drive. This means just burning an sdcard image with RPI Imager or Win32 disk imager WILL FAIL. They seem to expect 512 byte blocks. It just writes a corrupted filesystem to the drive. 2) It works fine after boot. 3) I tried everything I could think of, but the RPI4 will NOT boot from this device for some reason. 4) Not all is lost - you can move your / filesystem to the SSD and gain the speed and durability advantages. You will have to book from the sdcard, however. I tried every way possible to boot from it, but could not get it to work. I even manually created a FAT32 boot partition and a copy of a root ext4 filesystem by hand, and it would not boot. Here's how I got it to work. Steps taken on the Raspberry Pi: delete original partition on the SSD and create new ext4 partition with gparted (gparted usually needs to be installed) mount the SSD ext4 partition (I used /mnt/target) copy the current OS partition to the newly created on on the SSD. (I used "sudo rsync -axv / /mnt/target"). This takes about 5 minutes on my pi4B get the PARTUUID of the SSD ext 4 partition you just copied. (I used "sudo blkid" and found the PARTUUID for the partion on /dev/sda) backup /boot/cmdline.txt to cmdline.sd edit the /boot/cmdline.txt, replacing the PARTUUID with the one you just found for the partition you created on /dev/sdaX edit the fstab **ON THE SSD** and replace the PARTUUID for / with the SSID you just put in cmdline.txt. (I used "sudo vi /mnt/target/etc/fstab") Don't edit the regular /dev/fstab! Because of the change above, it will never bee seen. Again! Edit the fstab ON THE SSD filesystem you just created. reboot. You can confirm the device is running on the new SSD by using "findmnt -o -n SOURCE /" and it should show a partition on /dev/sda Has been running OK for me for a while. Search raspberry Pi Forums for more information and detailed instructions.

## Features

- 【Shockproof & Drop Resistant】With rugged aluminum alloy body, makes portable SSD resistant to shock and vibration to protect the Portable Solid State Drive core and dissipate heat, and sleek design is easy to grip. Your digital data would be protected well whether in the office or outdoors.
- 【Ultra-Light Extreme Portable】Upgraded portable solid state drive with the size of 64.5x27.9x9.9mm/2.54x1.1x0.39inch and weighing 0.88oz, this portable SSD is ultra-light and mini. It is easy and convenient to carry. Portable solid state drive meets your portable demands anytime anywhere if any devices with USB slots can be accessed.
- 【Outstanding Performance】Supported by the built-in NAND Flash & USB 3.1 Gen 2 interface, external SSD hard drive offers 430MB/s write speed and 350MB/s read speed. Ideal for transferring large-sized data including 4K videos, high-resolution photos and more. Backward compatible with USB 3.0, USB 2.0.
- 【Fully Compatible】120G/250G/500G/1TB external SSD hard drives are for you to select .Comes with USB A to C cable to connect with all computers with Type A port, Plug-and-Play for compatible with Windows, Mac, Android and Linux system and so on. Also supports laptops and smart phones with USB C port using a connector.
- 【Package & Guarantee】You can get 1* Portable Solid State Drive, 1*Type-A to Type-C Data Cable, 1*A to C Adapter, 1* Storage bag and we provide a 12-Month warranty for this Solid State Drive if there is any quality problem.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B09FXR3KR1 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #172 in External Solid State Drives |
| Brand | JOIOT |
| Color | Black |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (708) |
| Date First Available | July 13, 2020 |
| Flash Memory Size | 500 GB |
| Hard Drive | 500 GB Solid State Drive |
| Hard Drive Interface | USB 3.0 |
| Hardware Platform | PC |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 0.26 x 1.1 x 0.39 inches |
| Item Weight | 0.88 ounces |
| Item model number | X4-Black-500G |
| Manufacturer | JOIOT |
| Product Dimensions | 0.26 x 1.1 x 0.39 inches |
| Series | X4 |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** JOIOT
- **Color:** Black
- **Compatible Devices:** Laptop
- **Connectivity Technology:** USB
- **Digital Storage Capacity:** 500 GB
- **Hard Disk Description:** Solid State Drive
- **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 2.54 Inches
- **Hard Disk Interface:** USB 3.0
- **Installation Type:** External Hard Drive
- **Special Feature:** Shockproof & Drop Resistant

## Images

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Color, Size** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tougher than a Norwegian Elkhound during a Thunder Storm!!
*by M***K on December 1, 2022*

My 6 month old Norwegian Elkhound decided this would make the perfect bone. I looked for my little drive for a few days. Then I had a thought cross my mind. Did the puppy bring this outside? Whelp a day later I decided I better check. I head out to inspect the yard. It had been thunder storming at that point for a few days. Finding all kinds of holes the puppy had dug filled to the brim with water. Mixing with the freshly over turned soil. Which made the contents of each hole kinda like a bad milkshake from McDonalds. While standing there in the rain going from hole to hole checking for my cherished little hard drive. All I could think about was how long it would take me to rebuild another drive with the data this one had on it. Especially if I ended up finding it in one of those dog made lakes. I was on my 4th hole before I saw it there in the lawn.... floating in one of my puppies secret cache of chewable goodies... My heart sank along with one end of the drive into the murky water. I reached down and picked it out of the doggie lake while the water poured out of the drive. I cleaned it up shook it to get the water out. I then left it to dry for a few hours. It wad now time to test and find out if I was buying another drive and start the rebuild of all my data. I plugged in the cable to the drive and started to push in the USB-A side of the cable into my laptop. I wad waiting to see some error while the laptop was trying to mount the drive.... but to my surpirse.... No errors.... could it be true? So I click on the drive it opens and I see all my files. ... but will they work? You bet it did!! I was watching my movies again without skipping a beat .... I have been using that drive now everyday since it was turned into the Titanic.... This is the Perfect little drive! Had to reformat to FAT32 upon first use but works great! Fast enough to stream movies straight into my TV USB A port! Tough enough to be chewable dog bone and go for a swim..... Love it!! DO NOT HESITATE TO BUY THIS DRIVE!! IT WELL WORTH THE PRICE!!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Speedy, will not boot RPI4, but can be used as rootfs. Is a 4k drive
*by G***S on May 4, 2021*

This drive is pretty speedy! I'm running my Raspberry Pi 4 from it, and I'm quite happy. Note that you can't BOOT the pi from it, but you can have the next best thing.... You can run your RPi from it, but you do have to do the initial boot from the SDCard. Once booted, though, all the disk access is on the SDCard. A couple of things to be aware of: 1) This drive is a 4k sector drive. This means just burning an sdcard image with RPI Imager or Win32 disk imager WILL FAIL. They seem to expect 512 byte blocks. It just writes a corrupted filesystem to the drive. 2) It works fine after boot. 3) I tried everything I could think of, but the RPI4 will NOT boot from this device for some reason. 4) Not all is lost - you can move your / filesystem to the SSD and gain the speed and durability advantages. You will have to book from the sdcard, however. I tried every way possible to boot from it, but could not get it to work. I even manually created a FAT32 boot partition and a copy of a root ext4 filesystem by hand, and it would not boot. Here's how I got it to work. Steps taken on the Raspberry Pi: delete original partition on the SSD and create new ext4 partition with gparted (gparted usually needs to be installed) mount the SSD ext4 partition (I used /mnt/target) copy the current OS partition to the newly created on on the SSD. (I used "sudo rsync -axv / /mnt/target"). This takes about 5 minutes on my pi4B get the PARTUUID of the SSD ext 4 partition you just copied. (I used "sudo blkid" and found the PARTUUID for the partion on /dev/sda) backup /boot/cmdline.txt to cmdline.sd edit the /boot/cmdline.txt, replacing the PARTUUID with the one you just found for the partition you created on /dev/sdaX edit the fstab **ON THE SSD** and replace the PARTUUID for / with the SSID you just put in cmdline.txt. (I used "sudo vi /mnt/target/etc/fstab") Don't edit the regular /dev/fstab! Because of the change above, it will never bee seen. Again! Edit the fstab ON THE SSD filesystem you just created. reboot. You can confirm the device is running on the new SSD by using "findmnt -o -n SOURCE /" and it should show a partition on /dev/sda Has been running OK for me for a while. Search raspberry Pi Forums for more information and detailed instructions.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Drive is what it says that it is.
*by J***A on January 18, 2023*

I bought this JOIOT 500GB SSD drive to hook up for an additional backup drive. I never heard of this brand and the price is quite a value. I ran H2testw to verify that this drive is a real 500gb as they claim, the test passed. I then ran benchmark test to see if the speeds were close to their claims of: Up to 450MB/s read and 350MB/s write. Some benchmark and utility software have issues identifying the JMicron chipset used for this JOIOT drive. My initial benchmark testing came back terrible. I ran it again to confirm. I then decided to try and switch out the cable and use a different cable then what comes with the drive, huge difference. Using a different cable, the drive performs close to the advertised speeds. Using a better cable as you can see in benchmark picture attached, is about 2X-3X faster. Not sure why they would include a cable the under performs so much. The included velvet draw string bag really is a waste to include, samething you can get at any craft store. They should have included a better cable and skipped the pouch. The drive does run cool, has a small blue light. I'm going to hook this up for an additional backup drive and I'll adjust my review as I see how this drive performs over time. This drive is great value (so far). At the moment, I don't trust this drive with any data that I cannot lose. I'm just using it as an additional backup. That could change in time, but so far so good.

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