SAMSUNG T7 500GB, Portable SSD, up to 1050MB/s, USB 3.2 Gen2, Gaming, Students, & Professionals, External Solid State Drive (MU-PC2T0R/AM), Red

Worked great for 2 months. Now it wont stay connected on some machines, and on others doesnt show up at all. Was able to get to my data using a USB 2.0 C cable, so Ill consider myself lucky, no thanks to Samsung.

I purchased this to use for recording my PC gameplay directly to it (Nvidia Shadowplay) and Video Editing directly from it. It is very fast and is great for Youtube video editing in Adobe Premier. The only Con I have is the storage size! They say you get what you pay for.. I paid more for the Samsung brand and got less storage. Overall, I would recommend but go a size up from the size you actually need! Does not over heat and it is about the size of a credit card. I am happy with my purchase and may buy a bigger one in future! Blazing fast with large videos and I am using it with a USB 2.0 port on my Optiplex 990 :). Subscribe to “Mista CDawg” on YouTube!

Pocketful of porn. Encryptable stop snooping girlfriend or parents in their tracks

I wrote and erased a few hundred GB to the drive over three months, and after I started my laptop this morning, the entire drive was completely unusable. I cant write to or read it from Windows 1122H2, Ubuntu, or Android 12. Irreplaceable data is now lost forever due to Samsungs incompetence.

Had to get this drive because I upgraded my phone from a note 9 to a S21 ultra. And, has done away with using the SD card for these phones. They really want you to purchase and online storage like cloud or Dropbox. But once you spend all this money on a phone you dont want to buy a monthly service. So I found this drive to just take my pictures off my phone and can find it if you put them in folders for each month or week if you take many photos and dont to pay for storage that when u try to get your photos you cant get them or find them. And, so you dont fill your memory up on the new phone slowing it down.

The size is incredibly small and thin. I dont have USB 3.2, but it seems fast enough for me. I havent experienced any heat issues.

So far so good. The drive is really fast with the USB-C to USB-C connection and I havent had any problems with overheating. Im only using it as a Time Machine Back-Up so it doesnt get much use on a daily basis. Whether this helps or not I dont know. My complaint with the vendor is that the drive they sent me was used like new (see the attached photo) not a new drive (which is what I ordered). While the drive really does look like new to me this feels a little bit like a bait and switch and I suggested to the vendor they might want to give me a small rebate on the price because of this. I have gone back and forth with the vendor and they either dont see this as a problem, or dont care, or ... Im tempted to send it back and get another one (although its not clear if Ill then just get another used like new drive). Ive had good look with other Samsung solid state drives so Im hoping this one wont do something like crap out the day after the return window closes. Well see.

Color Red T7 is actually some shade of Terra Cotta (light Orange-Red), not actually Red. Write Speed is higher than Samsung T5 @ 787.4 MB/s but quite lower than the Sandisk Extreme PRO External @913.2 MB/s, Read speed 878 .9 comparable to Sandisk Extreme PRO External 886.7 MB/s. (Both were formatted in APFS with no encryption) No heat, or burning heat as other reviewer complained, juts mildly warm as it suppose to be. May be because I am using MacBook Pro and no Samsung encryption driver. APFS encryption works perfectly okay, not much difference in speed and no extra heat. Overall good deal for current price of $79.99, not the full price of 109.99 for 500GB, anything more than 79.99 I would suggest Sandisk Extreme PRO External or Crucial 500GB X8 Portable SSD.

Nice speeds, looks clean runs well. affordable. Yeah SSD ftw

Backing up using time machine takes less than an hour for 30/35gbs.