Out of space before finals? 5 Sandisk storage upgrades built for campus life

Your phone won’t let you record a lecture because the storage is full, your laptop keeps surfacing “manage storage” pop-ups you’ve been ignoring for weeks, and you finally go to download the game you’ve been waiting for, only to realize you don’t have enough space. 

The reflex when a device runs out of room is to assume the device itself is the problem, but the fix is a lot less drastic and a lot less expensive than a replacement. Sandisk has 5 upgrade options, each one designed for a different “I’ve run out of space” moment. 

Stop deleting old photos to make room for new photos 

The SanDisk Phone Drive with USB-C (starting at $112.99) plugs straight into your USB-C smartphone and can add up to 1TB* of extra space, which is enough to keep you from deleting photos from your camera roll in between classes. It moves files between your phone, tablet, and laptop, and other USB-C compatible devices without a cable or cloud upload, and it comes in four colors, so it can stand out from the clutter at the bottom of your bag. 

A storage fix you can leave plugged in 

The SANDISK Extreme Fit USB-C Flash Drive (starting at $34.99) uses a “plug-and-stay” design that sits nearly flush with your laptop’s USB-C port, so it stays put when you shove the laptop into a backpack and move between classes. With up to 1TB* of extra capacity, there’s plenty of room to offload a semester’s worth of project files and free up space for what you’re working on next. 

Space for What the semester brings 

The SANDISK Portable Drive (starting at $112.99) is a pocket-sized alternative to the bulky portable hard drives of the past, with transfer speeds up to 4x faster than old-school portable hard drives**. Toss it in your backpack to keep the files you want to hang onto close at hand, whether you’re moving between your dorm, the library, class, or heading home for break. It’s an easy way to add everyday storage to your setup and make more room on the devices you already use. Turn your laptop into a gaming rig 

The SANDISK Optimus GX 7100 NVMe SSD (starting at $207.99) is the internal upgrade option that installs inside a compatible laptop and adds fast NVMe storage with a power-efficient architecture so that a game library and a semester’s worth of assignments can coexist on one machine. The appeal is simple — upgrade what you already own instead of replacing it.  

Have game (and storage), will travel

The SANDISK Optimus GX 7100M NVMe SSD (starting at $387.99) is the handheld version of the same idea, adding up to 2TB* of space to compatible gaming handhelds. With AAA titles routinely running 90GB or more, up to 2TB* means your game library travels with you instead of having to decide which ones make the cut. 

Solve your storage problems for good with Sandisk without monthly storage subscription fees. You’ll have an easier time getting back into your creative flow, too. 

Disclosures: 

* 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes. 1TB=1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Actual user storage capacity less. 

**  Based on read speed and internal testing against select commercially available 1TB portable HDDs. Performance may vary depending upon host device, usage conditions, drive capacity, and other factors.  

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