Customer Ratings & Reviews

These solid state (SSD) drives are much smaller, lighter, faster and more reliable than conventional portable disk drives. Samsung is a reliable maker of SSD drives and this one is offered at a price point that's competitive with the conventional portable disk drives.

I am a professional photographer and it is great to have something like this that is fast and small to download images from my SD cards while in the field. The read and write speeds are great. It is small and light so you can put it in a shirt pocket without weighing it down. It has been a great product so far.

I bought an iMac desktop a few months ago (the cheapest desktop Apple offered) and was never happy with the load times compared to the MacBook Pro. My iMac has the old style 5400 RPM hard drive in it. I bought this Samsung SSD after talking to the salesperson in the Apple section in the Knoxville Store (thanks for the idea, wish I got your name), to see if the apps load any faster from it. The difference in speed was so good that I decided to make this a boot disk for the iMac and load all my apps to it. It took a few hours to setup and I had to set up my computer like a new Mac but the difference in load times is insane. The old internal drive would take about 4 minutes from turn on, to be able to use it at all (had to wait for the spinning rainbow circle to stop if you are familiar with Macs.). Now, using this Samsung SSD as a boot drive, the startup time is maybe 25 seconds. I also rarely have any wait time (spinning rainbow circles) starting apps like I used to encounter all the time, and when I do, it’s for maybe 2 seconds. Highly recommend this SSD and will be buying another to run my Logic Pro DAW files from the MacBook.

The speed of this portable drive is awesome! I use one with my xbox one and the load times is considerably less. The read and write times is fantastic. Perfect addition to increase the console storage or use with a computer and have quick access to your files.

Much small than I was expecting. Love the design and color choices. However, I wish the software worked with the latest version of the MacOS. The SSD does have hardware encryption (but I haven't been able to get that to work). On the plus side it is very fast!

Purchased two of these for backing up my Macbook Pro with USB-C ports. Got tired of slow USB-C flash drives! The read & write performance is very good, my backups take a lot less time now to complete. The supplied cables are a decent length, not too short or long. There is an activity LED on the connector end, which is good to have, but it is quite dim and you may not even notice it right away. A few nitpicks in regards to the Samsung application for enabling hardware-based encryption: 1) It doesn't adhere to the macOS standard Cmd-Q keystroke for quitting the app (you have to click an X at the top right corner instead), 2) when booting up the system with the drive attached it mounts a FAT partition automatically and you either have to dismount it manually or put up with the macOS notification about it not "being ejected properly" once you launch the Samsung app and enter your password to unlock the drive (the app is apparently forcibly de-presenting the device without first unmounting the partition) -- it would be better if the driver recognized that the drive has already been encrypted and not bother mounting that default partition. Right now I am using the hardware based encryption as I figured offloading that from the operating system might make it perform better. However, I didn't think out the implications of doing so in regards to a recovery scenario: if you use the H/W-based encryption you have to download and install an app from Samsung in order to unlock the drive, which means you have to have a functioning, bootable operating system in order to access you backups! I may end up switching back to letting macOS/TimeCapsule encrypt the filesystem and backups as that would allow for using the boot-time recovery methods supplied by Apple to access the backups.

This thing is working well. It’s incredibly small. Comes with usbC and regular usb cables. I use it as a scratch disk on my 2017 15" Macbook Pro for Adobe Premiere. Previews and renders happen much faster. Plus I have more space now for stuff. Solid product. Will get more for other digital storage needs as the price goes down.

I like how small and portable this drive is. 500G is ideal and I got rid of several small flash drives I've been lugging around, keeping only one for quick transfers. The security features work nicely, and load up instantly when the drive is connected.

I've bought many of these hard drives from Best Buy over the years (more than 5 in the past 3 years alone) to back up 4K video files from my camera, as well as pictures and files. The response time for copying from my camera or computer is extremely fast (faster than my actual computer hard drive), and performance remains rock-solid and doesn't diminish even when the hard drive is completely full. The performance is also more than solid enough to do video editing right off the drive with no lag or load time. Reliability is excellent; as I mentioned, I've been using a number of these drives for years and have never had a failure. Easy to use with both a Mac and PC with no compatibility issues. These are my go-to portable drives, and whenever I need a new one, this is the brand and model I order. For the price, you can't buy anything better.

Small, well built external SSD. Props to Samsung for including both USB-C and USB-A cables in the box. Currently using with Mac Mini 2014 over USB3 - works great. It will work even better once I get my new Mac Mini 2018 I suspect. Not a huge fan of the blue color, would have preferred black or silver.

This drive is so much faster than my previous USB3.0 memory stick! Transfers a 4GB file in just a couple of seconds if you have a USB 3.1 GEN 2 port on your computer. Light weight, low power, small, and has built-in encryption that can be turned on/off as needed.

Use for quick photo transfers on the go as well as editing, this little drive is fast. With the USB-C cable, I ran a speed test and was getting around 500mb/s transfer speeds. No lag and larger file transfers are a breeze. It’s smaller than a credit card and fairly thin, so it’s great for use on the go.

I bought this because my old back up was....well old. What I like about this ssd back up is: 1. It's small and easy to take with you. 2. It seems faster than my old one. 3. I'm hoping it will last for a long time- that we'll have to wait and see. If you can buy it on sale I feel it's a good buy.

This is my 3rd Samsung T5. Never a hiccup for the past year+. I bought my first one for more than twice the price so the SSD technology is getting less expensive. We still must pay more for the speed and reliability but these factors are important to what I do and the peace of mind they provide.

This is exactly what I was looking for for a video project that I'm working on. It fit all my criteria. Storage space, size and speed. The bonus was that it came with the necessary cables to use it with my older Mac. The fact that the price was right cinced the deal for me.

I will say is was very impressed with the size and performance of this drive it was a tough call between this and another scandisk extreme whiz is great but I’m glad I made the call super fast and small ssd makes an AWSOME makes a great portable steam and game drive

Very compact 500 Gb solid state drive. Since there are no moving parts, that makes it even better for portable backups. File transfer speeds are very acceptable - definitely better than many thumb drives I have used. Also has software for password access if needed.

This is a fantastic Drive. The quality of Samsung and the speed of the 21st century gods in one blue box. I love these and I'm buying more. I've been using this with our BlackMagic Pocket 4K for mass atorage but also like to use it for a really fast scratch disk.

I'm using the T5 with my imac. I needed a fast secure way to backup large files to carry with me on trips, I tried using USB drives, but they were very slow. The T5 is amazingly fast. I have not tested the T5's compatibility between imac's and PC's. Otherwise, I recommend it completely.

Great drive, compact portable and most important it is very durable. Fast read and write speeds this is a must for anyone on the go that needs to safely store their content without a hassle.