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The Expert P34F is a 10Gbps USB SSD featuring a Type-C connector on one end and a rather substantial lanyard point on the other. It’s colored an attractive mix of pewter and black with gold lettering. The drive, which comes with a three-year warranty, measures around 3.36 inches long, by 1.25-inches wide, by 0.7-inches thick and weighs roughly 2.5 ounces with the battery installed. Svelte, but also more prone to being easily losable. Of course, that potential for being misplaced is countered by Apple’s Find My functionality, which allows you to have the P34F play a sound so you can locate it.

When I was able to get the unit operating, the tracking worked as expected and the P34F showed up in the iOS/macOS Find My apps at my location. Sweet. Alas, that was only after a lot of futzing with the circular battery cover and rotating it so that it’s not quite in the full locked position. Even then, it only showed up for a bit. Noticing that the battery didn’t fit tightly I stuffed a small bit of paper into the side of the compartment to force the CR2032 battery to make contact with the negative terminal. This fixed the issue, but only for a while, and the Expert P34F would never connect r

SSD prices have risen in the last few months and the Expert P34F therefore costs a somewhat hefty $116 in its 512GB capacity, and $196 in the 1TB. You are of course paying extra for the geo location. There’s a 2TB version in the works, but it wasn’t available or priced at the time of this writing. My guess is that it will be close to $270. Yes, I can do simple math.

While not quite as fast as the Seagate Ultra Compact SSD overall, the 1TB Expert P34F we tested did outdistance its rival (if a non-geo-tagged SSD could be considered a rival) by a significant margin in our 450GB write. For large files, it’s one of the best 10Gbps SSDs we’ve tested. The P34F was right up there with the Seagate Ultra Compact SSD in CrystalDiskMark 8’s sequential throughput tests. The Expert P34F wasn’t nearly as fast with 4K files under CrystalDiskMark 8 as it was with larger ones, but it still wasn’t half bad. This is where the Seagate drive is uniquely quick for a 10Gbps SSD.