Sandisk has a long and stable history of providing portable flash memory which is not only reliable but durable. While there are superior designs the truth is you will then enter the bespoke/boutique market and have to pay much more for their quality. As of late, Sandisk has now been met with much more competition from companies like Samsung, Corsair or Crucial and their current line of products have stuck to objectifying reliability over performance. With that said, the truth is unless you are a media creator or someone who will consistently use this drive then the performance factor will be as minuscule as each time you open or close your applications. In comparison to the days of mechanical drives this is still a huge improvement over minutes of boot time and hanging on loading times. When comparing Sandisk to other companies you will be hard press to find enough of a difference to deter you from purchasing this unless 2-3 seconds or milliseconds here and there bother you. From a reliability standpoint regarding whether this drive will withstand the test of time, for me it did. I am rating this 4/5 stars simply due to the price. Now that digital media has permeated the consumer market it is laughable that we have yet to receive the required storage capacity at an affordable price to hold all of our digital media. Pair this with data caps and the issue compounds but the truth is downloading of media will always be superior to streaming as there will never be a concern of buffering or an outage with localized media. We need to get to 8TB+ SSDs at under $500 sooner in order to actually capitalize on this market before 4K becomes standardized. If not then we will perpetually be behind the curve and those of us who take to this lifestyle will be forced to compensate for our storage needs through secondary sources like external drives.