SureFire 1TB SSD & 2TB HDD External Drive Review

SureFire Gaming SSD

Speed is everything, right? The SureFire Gaming SSD comes equipped with USB 3.2 Gen 1, allowing for up to 5 Gbps transfer speeds. That means fast loading time for any installed games and just generally faster read and write times for any file transfers and backups. Plus, it comes equipped with a USB-C adapter, as well as Type-A, meaning you can plug it into a vast array of devices, such as your Windows computer, mobile devices, and consoles.

Of course, it’s not some bleeding-edge NVMe drive in here, but it doesn’t need to be. It’s going to max out the USB transfer speed easily enough, and for the most part, that’s plenty fast even for modern PC gaming.

I should point out that while you can use this one console, Microsoft only let you load Series X/S Enhanced Games from their proprietary high-speed storage. However, having the SureFire SSD means you can still back up and restore those titles to and from the Xbox as quickly as possible.

Expanding the internal storage of any console can be tricky. In some cases, you could be voiding the warranty, or it may turn out to be a complicated or more expensive process too. Having the external drive means you can keep things stock, but expand that storage quickly and easily to suit your needs.

For added security, Nero Backup software is provided to help you back up all your files, folders, and drives from your laptop or PC whenever you want. It also allows you to schedule an automatic back up to a set time and day to ensure it gets done regularly! Nero Backup Software is only compatible with Windows OS.

Features

• Suitable for both console and PC gaming
• Conveniently store all your games in one place
• Multi-colour changing LED accent lights
• Faster game loading times
• SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps
• Nero Backup Software (Windows only)
• Can also be used as a regular external SSD for file storage

Performance

The SSD is the fastest external drive of the two, by quite a margin. It had no issues maxing out the full potential of the drive. It actually exceeded its rated speeds of 450 MB/s read and 430 MB/s write, but you’ll never hear anyone complaining about that!

Read and write times were tested on both Windows 10 writing to and from a 500GB SATA III SSD and Xbox Series X using the built-in high-speed storage.

For backing up your games, this is going to be a quick and easy to use solution. You’ll be looking at 32.5 seconds to write 10GB of data to the drive, and just 22.7 seconds to read that data back to. For backing up most Xbox 360 or smaller Xbox One games, that’s obviously going to be pretty swift.

Moving 50GB of data covers most of your AAA games from the last generation and some of this generation. Even then, you’ll be looking at just 2:29 to backup and 2:16 to restore that data to the Xbox or PC. 100GB will take just 5:21 and again just 4:46 to recover back to your main drive.

As for loading games from the drive, well, there was no noticeable difference. Booting from your SATA III SSD could be faster if you can reach the theoretical drive speed all the time, but you likely won’t, so you can game from this just like an SSD.

One thing I did notice, however, is that on the Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and to a greater effect, Xbox 360 games, loaded noticeably faster from this drive than they did from their native console drives. Of course, that’s SATA II HDD Vs a USB 3.1 SSD, so that’s to be expected, but it’s still welcome.