Last-Minute SavingsLimited quantities.Shop now

Skip to content
Gift Ideas
Main Content

Customer Ratings & Reviews

Your price for this item is $109.99

Customer reviews

Rating 4.9 out of 5 stars with 1481 reviews

Rating Filter

Rating by feature

  • Value

    Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars

  • Quality

    Rating 4.9 out of 5 stars

  • Ease of Use

    Rating 4.9 out of 5 stars

Pros mentioned filter

Cons mentioned filter

99%would recommend to a friend

Customers are saying

Customers recognize the T5 500GB External USB Type C Portable Solid State Drive's portability and compact size as significant advantages, frequently praising its value for storage and speed. Positive feedback also highlights its compatibility with various devices and its affordability. While some users noted slightly slower load times, the overall experience is overwhelmingly positive.

This summary was generated by AI based on customer reviews.

The vast majority of our reviews come from verified purchases. Reviews from customers may include My Best Buy members, employees, and Tech Insider Network members (as tagged). Select reviewers may receive discounted products, promotional considerations or entries into drawings for honest, helpful reviews.
Page 26 Showing 501-520 of 1,481 reviews
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Love to edit off of this

    |
    |
    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Bought this to edit my projects off of, so that my laptop's storage wouldn't be taken up as that would slow it down. so far it's been a solid SSD. would recommend getting this and the Lacie HD to transfer files to after you're done.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Recommend this drive.

    |
    |
    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    It's a faster than typical drive (Solid State) and it provides cables for both USB 3 and USB C. This makes it more desirable than any other USB portable drive unless the price is your first consideration. It costs more but is not unreasonably expensive so I recommend it.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Super fast transfer speeds!

    |
    |
    Posted . Owned for 9 months when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    The Samsung solid state drives are super fast and sufficient my use. I mainly use them for music and the transfer rate is smoking fast! The only issue I've found with these drives is that sometimes the cord doesn't connect securely to the drive which causes this to disconnect and sometimes not at the right timing. I've only had this done on one of these and I've purchase a couple of them back to back... I have not had this issue with the latest one and hopefully it won't happen again.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Overall performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Excellent, well-built and reliable

    |
    |
    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This is my secont T5 SSD drive and I really like these comparred to various other external drives I have used. The work great, have a quality build and appearance to them. I can't think of any reason to rate this lower than a full five stars.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage capacity

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    The SSD works fantastic with my BMPCC 4k!

    |
    |
    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Works perfectly with my Black Magic Pocket Cinema 4k! With the massive file sizes produced by the camera, mounting this with my rig allows me to get over an hours worth of constant recording before needing to plug into my laptop and copy the files over.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Overall performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Works great!

    |
    |
    Posted . Owned for 1 year when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Works great! Able to easily store extra files on this and it is password protected so your items remain private. Also, it gives and breakdown of how much storage is remaining when initially plugged in. Just plug it in and use it.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    One of the fastest USB drives

    |
    |
    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Got the T5, to store VM for Ubuntu and Windows and have the ability to run VMWare on different systems. I found the SSD drive to be as fast as the one on the MacBook, used as time machine storage. You will find it as great backup device and an extension to the built-in device.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Overall performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Fast Reliable External Drive

    |
    |
    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I’m using this so I could boot to Mojave to run software not supported on Catalina. It’s pretty darn quick. I have another that I purchased in January for external file storage when using the iMac that has an internal 256 GB SSD.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Samsung is the King for Solid State Drives

    |
    |
    Posted . Owned for 1 year when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I bought Samsung because they are the pioneers in Solid State Drives. I had to transfer a huge file to my new external drive and it took a couple of minutes. Non-SSD took about 15-20 minutes. Build quality is great.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Overall performance

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great for PS4

    |
    |
    Posted . Owned for 4 months when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I use this to speed up my PS4 games loading times God of War and red dead. It makes a difference and is fun to see the difference. In terms of otter applications it's neat to use on my Mac with windows bootcamp so much faster than the USB stick!

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Portability

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great Gadget

    |
    |
    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This is our second purchase. Son loves to download his Ps4 games to back up to these devices. No moving parts and a must have. I owned a passport drive and it failed, I lost everhything it was awful. Now I do SSD all the way.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Size

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great SSD

    |
    |
    Posted . Owned for 3 months when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I am currently using this drive in my Tesla Model 3 and it works perfectly for the Dash Camera to store the video clips. It is small enough and tucks nicely in the cubby. Would highly recommend over a flash drive/thumb drive.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Portability

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Top Tier, and probably best portable SSD

    |
    |
    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    One of the best, if not THE best portable SSD. If there is one thing Samsung does right, it's storage. You won't regret getting this, but wait for a good deal. USB-C makes it all the more sweeter to use.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Portability

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Games load faster.

    |
    |
    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Games on my XBox One X load approximately 30 to 40% faster. Its a small and pricy luxury to have but if you want the best you buy something like this. I keep only a few “most-played” games on this drive because it is relatively small at only 500 GB.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great SSD for portability

    |
    |
    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Hard drive is really fast use it for my surface pro for my music daw and it is perfect I store alot of my sounds on there so I dont have to take a bulkier drive with me and I love the fact that it also acts as a storage device for my phone

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Size, Speed

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Fast, compact, expensive

    |
    |
    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    It is fast, quiet, small, but it is expensive. I look forward to SSD prices coming down in the future.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Can finally play Forza from an external.

    |
    |
    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great little SSD with blazing fast transfer speeds. Can play the Forza series on ultra settings right from the drive with zero lag. My onboard SATA drive bogged down frequently, this little demon screams. Love it.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Fast, great for college

    |
    |
    Posted . Owned for more than 2 years when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Got one of these for a class where we install windows OS dozens of times, needless to say compared to a hard drive everything was 100 times faster. Stop buying and using mechanical hard drives, get ssds.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great drive super fast!

    |
    |
    Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This drive is amazing and works very well. It is one of the few drives that work in my blackmagic pocket cinema camera 4K. The drive is super fast and allows me to shoot and edit 4K raw from the same drive.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Excellent External for Mac

    |
    |
    Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Got me a 2017 iMac with that nasty built in HDD that’s slower than turtles. Formatted this SSD and made it my primary drive and wooo weee what a night & day difference. Excellent speeds and no slow downs at all. Very happy.

    I would recommend this to a friend