SAMSUNG SSD T7 Portable External Solid State Drive 1TB, Up to 1050MB/s, USB 3.2 Gen 2, Reliable Storage for Gaming, Students, Professionals, MU-PC1T0T/AM, Gray

Received this nifty little SSD, it is so small and very portable, the speed is incredible too, not much else to say at the moment its all the things I was looking for in a portable SSD. Let me use it for a few months and see how the durability is.

I bought this drive to hold sound libraries/plugins for use with a DAW (like GarageBand) on a MacBook Pro. The libraries are large…multiple GB each. This drive worked well for this purpose and noticed no issues with latency. It’s also very portable and does not get very hot when in use (like some SSD/flash drives can). Nice product and highly recommend!

Up front I use this primarily as a cache for my work from home data. With all the bullishit going on with teams and my unstable work vpn. this has been helpful drive to isolate and exchange relevant files (sometimes large) without eating into my home computer resources I appreciate the local transfer speed. The sneaker network is alive and well.

Very fast when connected to USB-C NVM bus, almost as fast as my internal SSD.

Desafortunadamente para la macbook air m1 en especifico da unas velocidades bastante bajas, de casi la mitad. Me da aproximadamente 700 Mb de subida y de bajada, lo que me descepciona bastante pero igual no tengo mucho problema ya que sigue siendo bastante más rapido que los discos duros mecanicos que ya tenia.

Used for weekly back up of files

Worked great for a week. Since then, every time I plug it into my laptop it freezes the laptop until I unplug it. I’ve tried updating and formatting the drive, reinstalling the software and updating my drivers with no solution. Probably a dud drive.

Not good for doing large transfers. Overheated and shutdown quick. After 30GB into a transfer it overheated and cancelled transfer. Was in room temperature room sitting on hard surface.

I noticed the drive getting very hot and then causing operational errors on my Mac. As soon as I laid the unit on a cookie sheet (large heat sink), it cooled off and calmed down and ran perfectly. For short periods of use, it works great. If you need it plugged in for long periods of time (hours), I would recommend an external heat sink. It can be a simple piece of metal to lay it on and performance is great!

I bought this for the extra storage on my PS5. You cant play PS5 games directly off it even though the speeds match the internal NVMe, but you can archive and restore PS5 games in minutes. I transferred 180G in about 3 minutes.