Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is a great drive with plug and play installation. I was able to use encryption software to encrypt 50 gigs for the security of my personal files. I have owned this drive for just over 30 days and so far it has been flawless. I also purchased the Khanka Protective Zipper Carrying Storage Travel Hard Case Cover Bag for Samsung T1 / T3 / T5 Portable 500GB. Regardless of what you may have read elsewhere, the cord and drive fit into the case together just fine.

Bought this to use with my Xbox One X, got home and moved Division 2, Forza Horizon 4 & Motorsport 7, and a few others over to the SSD. Booted up Division 2 first, game loaded pretty quick. Tested the fast traveling, which usually takes 10-15 seconds for me, if not more. With the SSD, it takes 3 seconds now, and that's not an exaggeration. It's absurd how much faster it is than my Passport Ultra external. Tried Horizon 4 next, again that one loaded quick as well. Tested fast traveling as well, usually takes at least 10 seconds, but with the SSD it takes enough time for the initial load screen then bam, it's done, so maybe 2-3 seconds. It's unbelievable how much of a difference the loading times are, and it helps allow more time to actually game, than waiting for load screens. Sprung for the 500 gig one, to test it out, though definitely will be getting at least the 1tb model in the future. Sure, SSD still fetches a hefty price compared to regular portable external devices, but it's well worth it. Also size wise, it's about the size of a credit card, maybe even smaller. The depth is about the size of a fingertip. Picture shows just how small it is, compared to the Passport, and then the Stubs card.

I just received this 500 gb T5 SSD ext Drive in Rose Gold. The color is pretty close to my 2018 Gold MacBook Air (Retina). This is a huge plus for me as I love certain matching electronics. I love the metallic feel, tiny palm footprint and it weighs almost nothing, but sturdy. I ended up choosing this over another popular brand, but I’m so pleased I got this one, I’m also glad that it comes with the two option usb-c and usb-a cords. So far, I’ve transferred almost 75 gigs of data from an old usb-a SSD ext drive, it went pretty fast, and without getting hot. I just grabbed another in a different color. Will be doing an update.

I have Mac mini with 256Gb SSD but I do need more to store my project files and sometimes rendered videos. Attaching this external SSD to Mac Mini is one of the best options available to easily increase available storage. It is pretty fast around 520~540 read and write.

I bought this with the idea that a solid state drive might be faster than the internal hard drive on my Xbox one x - even though it is connected using a usb cable. Turns out it did help. The load times on Red Dead Redemption 2 and Anthem seem to have improved since moving them over to this drive. My only regret is I didn’t get the 1 tb version. With this one, I can only put a few larger games at a time and have to move them as I play them.

Needed a hard drive to use on my iPad Pro. I tried two others but they did not work so I gave this SSDa try and it works well. Plugs right in usb-c to usb-c. Comes with two cables usb-c to usb-c and usb to usb-c. Solid state is pricey so if you don’t need there are much less expensive options with way more space. Oh and it’s super small. I was shocked at the size. Not too much bigger than a pack of tic tacs and about the same thickness.

Great working drive. I use it as my functioning drive for FCPX with my 2017 MBP. I throw my footage into Final Cut with my library on the external then get the files off my internal. All the rendering is super fast, no hiccups, I hardly have to wait at all for renders - most of the time I don’t- and there are zero glitches. I’ll most likely pick up a second (larger) one as well. The USB-C / SSD drives are awesome!

Great item by Samsung. Very light and compact and it fita easily in my laptop case. Super fast and is password protected in case I ever lose it.

My first ssd device I love the unload and download speed plus the small size of the device.

The Samsung SSD portable C drive is Fast, Compact & Flexible.

This drive is fantastic for storing video. The transfer speed ranges from 380 to 400 GB/Sec. I use this for video production with my shadowpilot YouTube channel.

Very fast and easy to carry anywhere, and the design is excellent.

The help me out when transferring video files and image files

Best storage device I have used. Of course being a Samsung device construction quality and great operation is a description of this device. Recommended fully.

I’m a mobile DJ. It’s great for storing my music on it. Don’t have to store so much music on my computer. I’m happy with my hard drive.

These little Samsung Portable SSDs never cease to amaze me. It comes with both a USB A to C and a C to C cord unlike previous generations. This thing is also faster than the previous T3 generation. I use this drive for storing Final Cut X libraries that I am currently working on. It handles 4K video flawlessly since it is so incredibly fast and reliable. What I also like is there small size and the resilience of this little drive. Unlike external HDD, an SSD has no moving parts, that means that if I accidentally jostle the SSD I am not risking massive data loss like I would on an HDD. Also, this thing is so much faster than any thumb drive I have ever used. This device is well, well worth the price.

I really love this portable drive. Since it's an SSD, it's fast and easy to use. Essentially, just plug and play. It is very small, given the amount of storage capacity. The only thing I don't like is the cable. I can't stand these cheap cables that manufacturers include with their products. The cable for this HDD is the typical, jumper cable with the harder plastic shielding. The result when unfolded is a semi-accordion shaped, semi-rigid thing that won't cooperate in whatever limited space I'm using it in. I replaced the cable with a decent braided cloth covered cable, just to get the length and flexibility I needed. Honestly, the difference in the cost of the two types of cables can't be enough to justify sending out the cheapo version with a >$100 hard drive. Even so, I love this hard drive. From a functional standpoint, this is fantastic.

Very happy with this drive! I use very large files and this drive makes the work flow much faster. It is a little pricey, but hopefully the price will drop. So far this drive has been reliable. I love the size of this drive, it doesn't take up much space and is very portable.

Best Buy sent me an email asking me to rate this recent purchase. The T5 drives are always rated near a perfect 5 stars in Best Buy and everyplace else. So in addition to yet another 5-star rating... I wanted more storage so I purchssed this as an alternative to a micro-SD card. At the time the Samsung 256GB card was about $85 and the 512GB not really available. At $100, the cost of the 500GB T5 was little more than the 256GB card. It has almost 2x the storage capacity and is 5x as fast. And easier to move between devices. If you have a good file manager on your Android device it is just plug and play, you dont even need the app's software unless you want to encrypt the drive. It works flawlessly and is very cost-effective storage expansion.

I need a bigger storage for my photos and videos. And after searching and comparing other products I decided on this model. First, I did not expect the size to be that small. It's amaz ingly compact and portable, nice to the touch and feels premium. It comes with USB C to USB C and USB C to USB. It's fast. Compatible with Android device. Password protected for a peace of mind. Amazing product.