--- product_id: 107470673 title: "256GB Extreme Portable SSD, USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type C OTG External Solid State Drive (P1 256GB)" brand: "zheino" price: "€ 1.75" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 11 url: https://www.desertcart.sk/products/107470673-256gb-extreme-portable-ssd-usb-3-1-gen-1-type store_origin: SK region: Slovakia --- # Up to 500MB/s speed 256GB storage USB Type-C compatible 256GB Extreme Portable SSD, USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type C OTG External Solid State Drive (P1 256GB) **Brand:** zheino **Price:** € 1.75 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > πŸš€ Store More, Stress Less! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** 256GB Extreme Portable SSD, USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type C OTG External Solid State Drive (P1 256GB) by zheino - **How much does it cost?** € 1.75 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sk](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/107470673-256gb-extreme-portable-ssd-usb-3-1-gen-1-type) ## Best For - zheino enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted zheino brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Durable Design:** Built to withstand the rigors of travel while keeping your data safe. - β€’ **Complete Package:** Includes both USB Type-C to C and USB Type-C to A cables for your convenience. - β€’ **Compact & Portable:** Easily fits in your pocket for on-the-go storage. - β€’ **Universal Compatibility:** Works seamlessly with USB 3.1, USB 3.0, USB 2.0, and USB-A devices. - β€’ **Lightning Fast Performance:** Experience read speeds up to 500MB/s and write speeds up to 420MB/s. ## Overview The Zheino 256GB Extreme Portable SSD is a compact and lightweight external solid-state drive that offers lightning-fast read/write speeds of up to 500/420 MB/s. With universal compatibility across various USB interfaces, it comes with essential cables included, making it the perfect storage solution for professionals on the move. ## Description High Speed P1 SSD Performance Zheino P1 Portable SSD will get you 3-4 times faster data transfer speeds than conventional spinning HDDs. Transfer your files with super fast speed of up to 500 MB/s Save your time on moving and/or copying your photos, videos, documents, music and etc. With SuperSpeed of USB 3.1 (Gen 1) and UASP support, P1 SSD is a great fit for photographers, videographers, gamers, DJs and any other users with need of a backup. * Transfer rate may vary depending on file sizes and system configurationPackage Content: 1 x Zheino P1 256GB SSD 1 x 20cm USB Type-C to C Cable 1 x 20cm USB Type-C to USB 3.0 Cable Review: Tiny, almost weightless, works nicely, write speeds a little slow. - My Mac is running MacOS X 10.15 Catalina but I still have some 32-bit apps and those won't run on Catalina. I've been booting MacOS X 10.14 Mojave from an external HDD to use those 32-bit apps and it's been fine but I wanted faster boots and better performance so I decided to get a low-capacity and inexpensive SSD. My Mojave volume is about 70gb and will never get much larger so a 128gb SSD would be more than enough. My computer is a late-2012 Mac Mini so I have a Thunderbolt-1 port (already being used), a FireWire-800 port (already being used), and 4 USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 ports (3 available). So an SSD with USB 3 was going to be best for me and since my machine doesn't have USB 3.1 Gen2 and given that I wanted to save money more than I wanted to have the faster interface for the future whenever I might get a more modern Mac, USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 was good enough for my purposes. I wasn't too picky: I just chose the least expensive 128gb or larger external SSD with a USB 3 interface and which would come with a cable which had the connector I needed (USB A on the computer end). For $31 it's pretty cheap, there was nothing less expensive here on desertcart that fit my needs and didn't look like a piece of junk. This Zhaino SSD is tiny! Really, really small and thin; very light, too. As small and light as it is, it does not feel like a toy or a piece of plastic crap. It has a USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 interface with a USB C port. It comes with two cables, USB CUSB C and USB CUSB A. Both are quite short, only a few inches. Naturally any appropriate cable can be used in place of the ones that come with the SSD but the very short USB CUSB A cable is just what I needed. I plugged it in, it was recognized almost instantly and mounted to my Mac's desktop. I immediately launched Disk Utility and reformatted it with GUID/APFS then created two APFS volumes. One volume is for the Mojave boot system I planned to copy over to it. The second? Since I was going to have 50gb-60gb of free space left over, I added a "Miscellaneous" volume, to keep various files briefly when sneaker-netting things from one computer to another. This took only seconds. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy my existing Mojave boot volume over to this SSD rather than installing the system and then migrating my applications and files over. This took about 20 minutes for roughly 70gb and all the housekeeping stuff that CCC performs before and after a clone operation. First boot from the SSD was about 35 seconds. Everything performed flawlessly and felt very snappy, an order of magnitude better than the HDD I was using. Subsequent restarts into Mojave using the SSD took no more than 20 seconds. It's a pleasure to have such a snappy second boot system, it runs as well as the boot system on my internal SSD. Testing with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test gave read speeds well over 400MB/s. This is way better than read speeds of about 110MB/s which I get with a 5400rpm HDD through a Thunderbolt-1 port (obviously the TB-1 interface is faster than that but the HDD is very slow) or 80MB/s I get with a similar HDD through FireWire-800. Write speeds were initially close to 200MB/s (pretty slow for an SSD) but after just a few seconds dropped down to well under 100MB/s eventually averaging around 60MB/s which is very, very slow for an SSD. I get around 70MB/s write speeds with a HDD over USB. This is no problem at all for me, I'm just using it as a system boot disk so (except when I have to install an update), all it's really doing is reading so that's fine. In practice it doesn't "feel" slow at all – probably because all the writes in normal operation are very small and so get the 200MB/s speed. But if you are planning to use this SSD to do a lot of writing of large files, it probably isn't a good choice as even the initial "boosted" write speed isn't good let alone the sustained write speed. Knock a star or two off the rating if that's important to you. Other than the write speed, this SSD is pretty awesome and is a great value given what you get for the price. I recommend it if looking for a low-capacity SSD, although there are higher-quality options at the same or better price points as the storage capacity gets to around 500gb. I'll come back and edit this review if the drive fails or loses performance faster than expected. Review: So Far, So Good - I purchased 3 of these to test with Nvidea Shields. I have 3 shields that I use for streaming (using my own kodi fork) and gaming. I have them all mounted to a NAS that has 15,000+ game roms in which I use ARC browser for a gaming front-end. ARC installs on the shield's internal storage, but there was not near enough room for all the game artwork. I tried some Sandisk USB thumbs I had they were to small. I had to add more storage (formated as internal storage). , so I got x3-SanDisk 128GB Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drives (SDCZ430-128G-G46). So between the streaming doing its caching and the emulators doing save states etc, there was a bunch of read/writes going on. They worked fine for about 3 months, then each of them would make the shield to start slowing down, getting worse and worse for a few days, then would pretty much die. I could put them in a pc, get them recognized and reformatted, but when I would put them back in the shield, the shield would tell me there were to slow for internal storage. They cost me around $28 each at the time. I replaced 2 of them and they did the same thing, so I started looking for a better solution. I couldn't afford to keep replacing them every 3-4 months. I decided to try these. No one could tell me if they would work with android or shields, so I decided to be the guinea pig. I attached one of the to one to my pc's via USB 3.1 (I forgot to try USB type C). The formatted name of the drive is in chinese, but came right up. I ran crystal to see what it would do, then formatted it and ran crystal again, got about the same results. They are running x2-3 faster than the Sandisks did. I removed it and plugged it into a shield, it recognized instantly, I allowed it to format it as internal storage and let it moved files. I am getting a snappier, quicker response with these than I did with the SanDisks. Big test I suppose is, will they last????? If they last, they were very much worth it. The only thing I dislike about them is the drive activity light is on the same end where the cable attaches. I can't comment on tech support or 3yr warranty (hope I never need to...lol). ## Features - Up to 256GB of storage - Compact and pocket-sized, super fast Read/Write speeds up to 500/420 MB/s - USB Type-C and USB 3.1 Gen 1 ready; USB 3.0, USB 2.0 and USB-A compatible - Package includes USB Type C to C and USB Type C to A cables ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Hard Drive | 256 GB Solid State Drive | | Brand | Zheino | | Item Weight | 3.52 ounces | | Package Dimensions | 5.4 x 4.4 x 0.8 inches | | Color | P1 256GB | | Flash Memory Size | 256 GB | | Hard Drive Interface | USB 3.1 | | Manufacturer | Zheino | | ASIN | B07LBM57WM | | Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No | | Date First Available | December 17, 2018 | ## Product Details - **Digital Storage Capacity:** 256 GB - **Hard Disk Interface:** USB 3.1 - **Connectivity Technology:** USB - **Brand:** Zheino - **Special Feature:** Portable - **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 2.5 Inches - **Hard Disk Description:** Solid State Drive - **Compatible Devices:** Desktop - **Installation Type:** External Hard Drive - **Color:** P1 256GB ## Images ![256GB Extreme Portable SSD, USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type C OTG External Solid State Drive (P1 256GB) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51bt4bkriWL.jpg) ![256GB Extreme Portable SSD, USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type C OTG External Solid State Drive (P1 256GB) - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51G6eHqNBlL.jpg) ![256GB Extreme Portable SSD, USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type C OTG External Solid State Drive (P1 256GB) - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61tfZAyF1SL.jpg) ![256GB Extreme Portable SSD, USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type C OTG External Solid State Drive (P1 256GB) - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51u7it22CyL.jpg) ![256GB Extreme Portable SSD, USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type C OTG External Solid State Drive (P1 256GB) - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/519Tv85OCaL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tiny, almost weightless, works nicely, write speeds a little slow. *by J***R on February 28, 2020* My Mac is running MacOS X 10.15 Catalina but I still have some 32-bit apps and those won't run on Catalina. I've been booting MacOS X 10.14 Mojave from an external HDD to use those 32-bit apps and it's been fine but I wanted faster boots and better performance so I decided to get a low-capacity and inexpensive SSD. My Mojave volume is about 70gb and will never get much larger so a 128gb SSD would be more than enough. My computer is a late-2012 Mac Mini so I have a Thunderbolt-1 port (already being used), a FireWire-800 port (already being used), and 4 USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 ports (3 available). So an SSD with USB 3 was going to be best for me and since my machine doesn't have USB 3.1 Gen2 and given that I wanted to save money more than I wanted to have the faster interface for the future whenever I might get a more modern Mac, USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 was good enough for my purposes. I wasn't too picky: I just chose the least expensive 128gb or larger external SSD with a USB 3 interface and which would come with a cable which had the connector I needed (USB A on the computer end). For $31 it's pretty cheap, there was nothing less expensive here on Amazon that fit my needs and didn't look like a piece of junk. This Zhaino SSD is tiny! Really, really small and thin; very light, too. As small and light as it is, it does not feel like a toy or a piece of plastic crap. It has a USB 3.0/3.1 Gen1 interface with a USB C port. It comes with two cables, USB C<-->USB C and USB C<-->USB A. Both are quite short, only a few inches. Naturally any appropriate cable can be used in place of the ones that come with the SSD but the very short USB C<-->USB A cable is just what I needed. I plugged it in, it was recognized almost instantly and mounted to my Mac's desktop. I immediately launched Disk Utility and reformatted it with GUID/APFS then created two APFS volumes. One volume is for the Mojave boot system I planned to copy over to it. The second? Since I was going to have 50gb-60gb of free space left over, I added a "Miscellaneous" volume, to keep various files briefly when sneaker-netting things from one computer to another. This took only seconds. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy my existing Mojave boot volume over to this SSD rather than installing the system and then migrating my applications and files over. This took about 20 minutes for roughly 70gb and all the housekeeping stuff that CCC performs before and after a clone operation. First boot from the SSD was about 35 seconds. Everything performed flawlessly and felt very snappy, an order of magnitude better than the HDD I was using. Subsequent restarts into Mojave using the SSD took no more than 20 seconds. It's a pleasure to have such a snappy second boot system, it runs as well as the boot system on my internal SSD. Testing with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test gave read speeds well over 400MB/s. This is way better than read speeds of about 110MB/s which I get with a 5400rpm HDD through a Thunderbolt-1 port (obviously the TB-1 interface is faster than that but the HDD is very slow) or 80MB/s I get with a similar HDD through FireWire-800. Write speeds were initially close to 200MB/s (pretty slow for an SSD) but after just a few seconds dropped down to well under 100MB/s eventually averaging around 60MB/s which is very, very slow for an SSD. I get around 70MB/s write speeds with a HDD over USB. This is no problem at all for me, I'm just using it as a system boot disk so (except when I have to install an update), all it's really doing is reading so that's fine. In practice it doesn't "feel" slow at all – probably because all the writes in normal operation are very small and so get the 200MB/s speed. But if you are planning to use this SSD to do a lot of writing of large files, it probably isn't a good choice as even the initial "boosted" write speed isn't good let alone the sustained write speed. Knock a star or two off the rating if that's important to you. Other than the write speed, this SSD is pretty awesome and is a great value given what you get for the price. I recommend it if looking for a low-capacity SSD, although there are higher-quality options at the same or better price points as the storage capacity gets to around 500gb. I'll come back and edit this review if the drive fails or loses performance faster than expected. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ So Far, So Good *by T***W on June 11, 2019* I purchased 3 of these to test with Nvidea Shields. I have 3 shields that I use for streaming (using my own kodi fork) and gaming. I have them all mounted to a NAS that has 15,000+ game roms in which I use ARC browser for a gaming front-end. ARC installs on the shield's internal storage, but there was not near enough room for all the game artwork. I tried some Sandisk USB thumbs I had they were to small. I had to add more storage (formated as internal storage). , so I got x3-SanDisk 128GB Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drives (SDCZ430-128G-G46). So between the streaming doing its caching and the emulators doing save states etc, there was a bunch of read/writes going on. They worked fine for about 3 months, then each of them would make the shield to start slowing down, getting worse and worse for a few days, then would pretty much die. I could put them in a pc, get them recognized and reformatted, but when I would put them back in the shield, the shield would tell me there were to slow for internal storage. They cost me around $28 each at the time. I replaced 2 of them and they did the same thing, so I started looking for a better solution. I couldn't afford to keep replacing them every 3-4 months. I decided to try these. No one could tell me if they would work with android or shields, so I decided to be the guinea pig. I attached one of the to one to my pc's via USB 3.1 (I forgot to try USB type C). The formatted name of the drive is in chinese, but came right up. I ran crystal to see what it would do, then formatted it and ran crystal again, got about the same results. They are running x2-3 faster than the Sandisks did. I removed it and plugged it into a shield, it recognized instantly, I allowed it to format it as internal storage and let it moved files. I am getting a snappier, quicker response with these than I did with the SanDisks. Big test I suppose is, will they last????? If they last, they were very much worth it. The only thing I dislike about them is the drive activity light is on the same end where the cable attaches. I can't comment on tech support or 3yr warranty (hope I never need to...lol). ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Using Zheino 128GB portable SSD to boot Raspberry Pi 4. *by P***G on February 21, 2020* So far, the Zheino 128GB portable SSD has worked well. I haven’t had it long enough to determine it long term reliability. Following the directions that are in the YouTube video by Andreas Spiess (the guy with the Swiss accent), I was able to get a Zheino 128GB portable SSD to boot up my Raspberry Pi 4. To find the video search YouTube for β€œBoot a Raspberry Pi4 with an SSD to make it reliable and fast” I used the speed test mentioned in the video to measure the speed of both the generic Microcenter SD card I was using and the new Zheino drive. The results were a 5.5X increase in speed (SD card: 1466, Zheino SSD: 8100). There are several other advantages to using an SSD over a SD card. The only issue I had was that when I imaged the Zheino SSD, I couldn't get the "boot" fat32 partition of the Rpi image to show up in Windows 10. So I have to go through activating SSH, changing the keyboard configuration, setting up WiFi, etc... again on the SSD when I was finished. Since the boot is not done natively yet on the Rpi 4, you still need the SD card. 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