SAMSUNG T5 Portable SSD 1TB - Up to 540MB/s - USB 3.1 External Solid State Drive, Black (MU-PA1T0B/AM)

Purchased 19 months ago and have loved it... when it works its great. Lightweight and fast. So thats also the problem. You rely on it more and more and more until one day after days of editing with Final Cut Pro my MacBook makes a swooshing sound and restarts. From that point on no data on the drive can be read. Plug the drive in and swoosh then reboot. Did I mention its at the worse time. So disappointing.

Freaking LOVE it!! Wish they’d come down in price so I can get more. Only negative is the greediness of Samsung.

love it, fast and good size

Using it for a storage/backup on Windows for a month now. I require only reliability, not any particular speed, etc. Its been working nicely thus far.

Amazing external drive! Small and blazing fast!

Storage devices abound these days. You can put your data on any number of flash media from thumb drives to multiple card formats. In the USB-only category, larger capacity storage has usually be dominated by small hard drives, which deliver decent performance for a low cost. For smaller capacity storage, the thumb drive was a good compromise, very portable and acceptable with USB2. USB3 opened up a new world of performance, and suddenly several things happened - the small hard-drive no longer looked as nice for performance and the price gap was quickly closing with flash in the middle market sizes. But for the larger > 256Gb portable storage sizes, portable flash and internal SSD prices started to converge also. What Samsung has done with the T5 is essentially create an externalized SSD. Speed over USB3.1 simply blows away the thumb drives and the small hard-drives, and the cost per GB hits a sweet spot. If youve got to move a good chunk of data (think video or multi-track audio), or youre tired of your timemachine backups taking six hours, this is your solution. And its rugged too - I throw mine in the laptop bag and dont even worry about it. Just dont lose it - with the bigger size comes a bigger loss.

Not functioning right, not recommended, for the prices expected so much more...

Samsung T5 2TB review. Super fast drive, pocketable small and easy for on the go use. No issues so far. I got this drive on Amazon PRIME Day for a great price and have no regrets! I have 2 of these drives for both PC and Mac and both work well. If you need super fast storage that is small pocketable on the go for PC or Mac, I highly recommend getting it!

Works fine so far

I forgot I never reviewed this and I’ve had it for about 2/3 years now. At first I used it on an Xbox one which only had 500Gb so the storage update was huge. Last year I got a series x so I moved it from the Xbox one to the SX to store my old games on it and store new games on its internal storage for faster load times, and also you can’t store SX games on this I believe. Now this year I built a gaming pc and to save money I bought a 500gb nvme ssd for it, I ran out of space quick. I figured I could use this Samsung ssd for the pc so I did and it works great. Whenever I download a game it gives the option of my internal ssd or Samsung ssd and i believe you can install any game on it unlike the SX. This thing is a beast I highly recommend and if there’s newer models go for those instead.