Adding a terabyte of space to your laptop is simple enough (if expensive) if you’ve got a microSD slot. SanDisk’s new Extreme Fit flash drive hopes to make the process simple for anyone who doesn’t carry around one of Lenovo’s business notebooks, too.

The company’s newest peripheral storage device, dubbed “the world’s smallest 1TB USB-C flash drive”, actually comes in several capacities that use the same form factor. It’s supposed to be left connected to a laptop permanently, though we’ve seen too many crowded laptop bags to take that claim too seriously.

Extreme Fit for purpose

The SanDisk Extreme Fit is set to arrive in 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB variants, with the latter being the most attractive for anyone looking to upskill a standard laptop. Pricing is only known for international markets right now, starting from R260 ($15) for the 64GB model and climbing to R1,900 ($110) for the terabyte option.

The 64GB flash drive boasts read speeds of up to 300MB/s, with the larger models upping the transfer rate to 400MB/s. They are, based on the company’s visuals, rather dinky, but still bulky enough that we’d worry about snapping the USB-C connector inside a laptop port with rough handling.

South African pricing isn’t known yet, but Stuff has a launch window for the SanDisk Extreme Fit to arrive in this country. We can expect the new hyper-portable terabyte drives (and their smaller siblings) in the first quarter of next year. Unofficially, it should be sometime in February, but the exact timing has yet to be finalised.