Fanxiang PS2000W review: A solid portable SSD that's another victim of the rising memory prices

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TechRadar Verdict

The Fanxiang PS2000W portable SSD ticks most of the boxes with the possible exception of hardware encryption. However, the price of flash-based external SSDs isn’t sustainable at current levels, including this drive.

Pros

  • +Lightweight
  • +Durable
  • +Cable for USB-A and USB-C

Cons

  • -Recent 100% price increase
  • -Needs USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 for full performance
  • -Lacks hardware encryption

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Fanxiang PS2000W: 30-second review

Fanxiang is a Chinese storage brand, most commonly known as Shenzhen Fanxiang Information Technology. The company grew out of a team with a decade of prior experience in storage design, firmware, and product sales, and they've built their range around four main product lines: solid-state drives, mobile storage, memory modules, and storage cards.

It’s been making external SSD storage for about five years, with a wide range of devices and specifications.

The PS2000W appeared in 2025, and delivers capacities from 500Mb to 4TB in a slim aluminium case. It comes with a soft carry pouch and a cable that has an integrated adapter for both USB-A and USB-C connections.

The quoted performance is 2000MB/s reads, and 1800MB/s writes, but that assumes you have a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 port, and that’s not a common standard.

More realistically, a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port will achieve a little over 1000 MB/s reads, and 950 MB/s writes with either a USB-C or USB-A connection.

For those wanting faster transfers, you either need a system with the rare USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 port, or choose a different drive that supports the USB4 standard, like the Fanxiang PS3000 portable SSD.

However, that option costs $350 for the 1TB model, which is substantially more than the $150 the PS2000W is typically priced at for that capacity.

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