Customers are impressed with the speed and capacity of the Geek Squad Certified Refurbished T9 Portable SSD. However, some users experienced difficulty with compatibility, reporting issues with device recognition on certain tablets and computers. Troubleshooting steps were sometimes required to establish a connection. Further investigation may be needed to determine the root cause of these compatibility problems.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Super, fast small SSD to replace slow HDD
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Replaced my HDD with this SSD and never going back. I use it as an external for Native Instruments sound files, and it has no lag like my SSD did. It’s great and no latency in Logic.
I would recommend this to a friend
Cons mentioned:
Compatibility
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
About the Geek Squad Certified Refurbished T9 SSD
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I'm writing about the Geek Squad Certified Refurbished T9 Portable SSD 4TB. I recently purchased two refurbished T9 SSDs from Best Buy. I bought them for BMCC 6K full-frame video recording and connected them to the camera, but neither of them were recognized. The Best Buy staff doesn't know the reason, and they only suggest that it is possible to use it if you buy a genuine product, not a refurbished one, which is not helpful at all. The Best Buy refurbished T9 SSD can only be used for backing up general computer data, so if you have other purposes, I want to let you know not to buy it, so I'm writing about my bad experience here.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Next Level of Storage
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Small, compact, and extremely fast storage. Moving a 14 gig file from my computer to this SSD was less than 20 seconds. For me, especially going from old school external disk drive that I purchased probably about 15 years ago to this solid state drive, is night and day! I should’ve purchased one of these a lot sooner.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent product
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Excellent product. Fast and good capacity. If the 8TB model was priced lower, I'd buy it.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Geek Squad Cert. Refurbished T9 SSD 4TB
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
The Geek Squad Certified Refurbished T9 Portable SSD 4TB has worked well so far. I have tried it on a few different computers and it meets my expectations, if not quite as fast as advertised. Certainly no complaints for the size, capacity and price.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fast on Mac if you reformat it as APFS.
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
If you are using an external SSD solely with a Mac, do yourself a favor and reformat as APFS. When I first got this I left it as exFAT and it got pretty slow after a lot of files were copied to it. I reformatted as APFS and it has been as speedy as expected.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Works great for Time Machine backups
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Bought this to backup my Macbook Pro M4. Excellent and speedy.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great SSD and value
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I purchased this SSD to serve as my DVR and I could not be happier. It is a great choice and the price was very good.
I would recommend this to a friend
Cons mentioned:
Compatibility
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Samsung Drive
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
The price was right, I bought refurbished, because I knew Best Buy would stand behind it. I had to go deep into Windows settings to get it recognized, but all is well.
I would recommend this to a friend
Cons mentioned:
Compatibility
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
The certified refurbished T9 ssd doesn’t work!
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I purchased this and only managed to test it out now. The ssd does not work at all as it cannot be detected by my tablet. I tried to connect to another Samsung T7 ssd using the same cable and it could work so the certified refurbished Samsung T9 that I purchased totally doesn’t work.
Can Best Buy advise what could be wrong. Is it the ssd was reformatted such that laptops and tablets can no longer detect it? What can be done to resolve this since it is no longer returnable?
Extremely disappointed with this.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Speed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great purchase!
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Works great! Getting about 900MB/s on M1 Max. Very happy.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great price, longevity, only time will tell
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
So far, so good! Great price, longevity, only time will tell
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Buyer Beware.
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I was suckered by the great price. However I tried it on 3 different pcs and it wouldnt work. I had no problem returning it to my local store and purchased a new model instead
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Refurbished by geek squad
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Item came to me as in new condition. purchased a second refurb as i gain trust on the product