SanDisk 256GB iXpand Flash Drive Luxe

8 reviews for SanDisk 256GB iXpand Flash Drive Luxe

1. Rated 1 out of 5

   Gage Brakus (verified owner) – February 12, 2023

   I gave a very thorough and real review that happened to be negative and you rejected it??? Proving my point. I will be discussing this with lawyers as several people are involved now with a class action forming against you WD/Sandisk. Your polices are unacceptable and border on illegal. Guess you want to find out the hard way! Have a nice day!

2. Rated 5 out of 5

   Ken Parker (verified owner) – January 25, 2023

   I bought 2 of these over the last year. Love that is has lightning for my phone and usb-c for my iPad.

3. Rated 1 out of 5

   Brody Koepp (verified owner) – January 1, 2023

   Me trying to explain to support the current problem. Sharing here so that others understand their drives, at present, are only half functional than they should be due to an incompatibility with the software on iOS. Okay. I’m trying to be as clear as I can. I’m going to try and make this as simple to understand as possible because it really is very simple. There is nothing wrong with the DRIVE(s) as in plural. As in TWO brand new drives a Luxe version and a GO version. Brand new. Okay? Got it. Alright. Now. The drives are FINE. Alright? Both flash drives work fine on PC and Mac operating systems as basic flash drives. Just as my old iXpand drive did I bought years ago. The problem is, while I can move files from the iPhone to the drives, I can not move files from the drive TO THE IPHONE. Okay? Does that make sense yet? In other words it’s half the functionality of my old drive… for whatever reason. MY GUESS is the drives or iXpand software on iPhone need an update to bring that full functionality back so that files can once again be moved both ways. Both to the iPhone and from the iPhone to the drive. Does this make sense? Example, I’m able to copy about 5 Gigabytes of photos to the drive easily and successfully. The PROBLEM lies in the ability of the drive to be able to copy files FROM the drive to the iPhone. Something that the iXpand drives used to be able to do easily and a function that is built into the software which proves this ability should be there. Why doesn’t it work? Easy. I suspect the drives and/or software for iXpand NEED an update to work with the latest iPhone iOS completely as it should. As of now, only being able to copy files to the drive and nothing else is half the functionality it should have. It’s that simple. I don’t know how to make this any clearer. The drives are fine, they need to be updated to restore full functionality and compatibility with the latest iPhones. It’s that simple.

4. Rated 1 out of 5

   Torey Carter (verified owner) – November 17, 2022

   It takes forever to download photos and I keep getting “Operation Failed” messages, I only have 2,000 photos and have been trying for days to load them. I wish I read the reviews before buying this.

5. Rated 2 out of 5

   Destinee Wyman (verified owner) – June 30, 2022

   I have attempted many times to use the app that comes with this device to back up my iPhone. It gets about three photos in and then crashes… I’ve tried to do it manually but the same results occur. I have since wiped the entire drive and now I just use it as a back up thumb drive because the actual utility for iPhone doesn’t work at all. Not a great buy for $75

6. Rated 5 out of 5

   Alexandrea Nicolas (verified owner) – June 4, 2022

   it works, good price, I might lose the cap but i haven’t, is looks great the aluminum body, likely to buy another one like this one.

7. Rated 1 out of 5

   Fannie O’Conner (verified owner) – April 25, 2022

   I am trying to back up my google photos and half way of the process “operation Failed” as many others in the reviews I am from IT and have check everything possible , any clue ? thanks!

8. Rated 1 out of 5

   Marlen Veum (verified owner) – March 8, 2022

   I have two ixpand drives: the GO and the LUXE versions. Both are BRAND NEW Brand New, iPhone 14 Pro Operating system version. iOS 16.1.1 Neither drive works with the current iOS/iPhones It is recognized ONLY by the iXpand software but is unable to be accessed/recognized by the rest of iOS or any of the compatible apps that are supposed to be compatible and used to be able to access these drives as an external storage while plugged in. (This worked great when it was operational like this) in the past, iXpand drives could copy files back and forth using either the iXpand software or the Apps on the phone such as media players and iOS’ Files app as well. None of these are possible currently. And, iXpand can’t seem to copy any files. It goes through the motions taking a long time as it used to, but it never actually copies any of the files. Again, BOTH BRAND NEW drives do this on a brand new iPhone ! Probably due to the inaccessibility of the drive by the current operating system? Also on many occasions of trying, the drive just stopped even being recognized altogether by iOS and kept prompting to insert iXpand drive even though it was already inserted. I tried changing operating system and software settings. Nothing worked. This was the case for both of the new drives. And right now they are completely useless on the iOS device version 16.1.1 for whatever reason. If I had to guess I’d say an update is needed somewhere to fix this. As of today, these drives are only good as basic flash drives on my PC or Mac and that’s it. They literally do not work with the latest version of iOS.