Samsung - T5 2TB External USB Type C Portable SSD - Deep black
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Description
Features
2TB portable storage capacity
Gives you simple and efficient access to your massive data so you can complete tasks quickly and on the move. Take along your documents, large-sized photos or videos, and get things done wherever you go.
USB Type-C interface
Offers convenient connection to an extensive range of devices from PCs, Macs, smartphones and other devices.
Transfer speeds of up to 540 MB/s
With Samsung V-NAND flash memory and a USB 3.1 Gen 2 interface, the T5 provides transfer speeds of up to 540 MB/s.*
Password protection with AES 256-bit hardware encryption
Keeps your personal and private data more secure.
Solid inside and out
Stay worry-free. The T5 has no moving parts and a sturdy body, so it can handle drops of up to 6.6'.**
Top-to-bottom metal design
Comes in a rounded unibody that fits comfortably in the palm of your hand.
Management software
The T5 comes embedded with an intuitive software for PCs and Macs to easily set the password and get the latest firmware updates. You can also download the mobile app for Android smartphones and tablets.
* Performance may vary depending on host configuration. To reach maximum transfer speeds of 540 MB/s, the host device, and connection cables must support USB 3.1 Gen 2 and the UASP mode must be enabled.
** The internal free fall shock test was conducted under controlled conditions.
What's Included
Samsung T5 2TB External USB Type C Portable Solid State Drive
USB Type-C to C cable
USB Type-C to A cable
Key Specs
- Storage Capacity2000 gigabytes
- Storage Drive TypeSSD
- Interface(s)USB Type C (USB 3.1 Gen1)
General
- Product NameT5 2TB External USB Type C Portable SSD
- BrandSamsung
- Model NumberMU-PA2T0B
Capacity
- Storage Capacity2000 gigabytes
Performance
- Storage Drive TypeSSD
Compatibility
- Internal Or ExternalExternal
- External Hard Drive TypePortable
- Interface(s)USB Type C (USB 3.1 Gen1)
Features
- Security FeaturesPassword Protection
- Data EncryptionYes
- Encryption Algorithm256-bit AES
- UsageBackup, Enterprise/server, Everyday computing, Gaming, Low power storage
Memory
- NAND Flash Memory TypeV-NAND
Power
- Power SourceUSB port
Dimension
- Product Height2.3 inches
- Product Width2.91 inches
- Product Weight0.11 ounces
Included
- Included SoftwareSamsumg Portable SSD Software
Warranty
- Manufacturer's Warranty - Parts3 Years
- Manufacturer's Warranty - Labor3 Years
Other
- UPC887276226323
Customer reviews
Rating 4.9 out of 5 stars with 122 reviews
(122 customer reviews)Rating by feature
- Value4.7
Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars
- Quality4.9
Rating 4.9 out of 5 stars
- Ease of Use4.9
Rating 4.9 out of 5 stars
Customers are saying
Customers appreciate the T5 2TB External USB Type C Portable SSD for its fast data transfer speed, compact size, and ample storage capacity. It is also compatible with various devices, making it a versatile choice for users. While some users find it a bit expensive, many agree that its reliability and quality justify the cost.
This summary was generated by AI based on customer reviews.
- Pros mentioned:Fast, Portable, Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Overall amazing
||Posted . Owned for more than 2 years when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Plenty of storage,compact,fast,durable,portable and interchangeable between devices.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Router challenged
||Posted . Owned for more than 2 years when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Plenty of space to backup my computers and pictures
I would recommend this to a friend Rated 5 out of 5 stars
BMPCC4k
||Posted . Owned for 1.5 years when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Best external ssd for using the black magic pocket cinema camera 4k
I would recommend this to a friendRated 5 out of 5 stars
Highly recommend
||Posted . Owned for more than 2 years when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.Is good quality product highly recommended this product to friends
I would recommend this to a friend- Pros mentioned:Fast
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Samsung for the win!
||Posted . Owned for more than 2 years when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I’m working on a film and needed a new drive and man this has become my favorite drive to use. It’s a tough little thing that works fast and works well for what I need. You won’t be disappointed buying one of these!
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Portable
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Good product
||Posted . Owned for 1 year when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I bought this device because on my desktop i needed more space and i wanted an external ssd just in case if i want to move the files around or plug it into my phone to use one of my files. And the device is pretty secure, with the software and password. I would honestly buy more of these they are worth it.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Fast, Portable, Storage
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great Grab & Go Video/Photo Storage
||Posted .This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.We have about 6 or so of these for our 3-man video team in various sizes. They all love them. Our video guys are recording 4K content and they will actually do fast edits off of these drives (more involved edits are done off of our NAS), and love being able to dump the contents of their SD cards on these from a laptop. If you're looking for quality, speed, and portability, these are hard to beat.
I would recommend this to a friend - Pros mentioned:Fast, Portable
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Super fast, super portable, super reliable!
||Posted . Owned for 8 months when reviewed.This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.I. LOVE. THESE. DRIVES. This is my 4th drive I've purchased of this model. (And I've purchased 2 additional ones for other people...6 total.) I've had these Samsung "T" series drives for years now. I use them with a Mac, and they work very well. Super fast, super portable. What more could you ask for! Also, pro tip for the Mac users, re-format the drive completely when you get it. This method has worked for me for years with these and I haven't had any issues. Can't recommend these drives enough.
I would recommend this to a friend
What experts are saying
Q: QuestionWould this be a usable option to put most of my playstation 4 library on to use as extended storage on the playstarion 5 to play my ps4 games off without using my ps5's internal storage?
Asked by David.
- A:Answer Absolutely. I am currently using this daily. Nice and easy hookup/process. Even easier to use on PS5 than it was on PS4.
Answered by James
Q: Questionwhat is this hard drive model's rpm?
Asked by Anonymous.
- A:Answer To be sure your talking about the Samsung drive listed there correct? that's not a hard drive it's a Solid State Drive. it's flash based memory, there are no moving parts. no disk, no spinning
Answered by AfflictedNation
Q: QuestionIf USB C/ USB 3.2 gen 2 (10Gb/s) why is the maximum transfer speed listed as 540mb/s?
Asked by Blake.
- A:Answer The USB 3.2 gen 2 interface is capable of 10 Gb (lower case "b") per second (that's 10 giga-"bits"). That translates to 1 GB (upper case "B") per second (1 giga-"byte"), under laboratory perfect conditions. With computers, there is always a bottleneck. There is always some part capable of some maximum speed, and that part is always throttled by some associated part that cannot reach that same speed. Such is the case with the Samsung T5. It's theoretical maximum read / write speed is 500 MB (mega-bytes) per second. But you will never get that speed. You will usually get in the neighborhood of 350 MB per second, when the drive is being written to (or from) an NVMe drive. At times, you might get a bit over 400 MB per second. For example, if you have multiple mechanical drives, all writing to the T5, simultaneously. That is when the T5 will exceed 400 MB per second (but not by much). If you want faster speeds, then get the Samsung T7. It is roughly twice as fast. But that is a dubious rating. Here's why: The T7 will do much faster speeds than the T5, but only for, perhaps, 100 GB of data being written without rest. After that, it slows down, dramatically. You see, the T7's internal NAND fabric (that stores the data) is not uniform. Samsung used super fast NAND fabric for initial bursts of high speed, and used far cheaper, and far slower, NAND fabric for the vast majority of the drive's storage fabric. For most users, you will never notice the slower part of the drive. Why? Most users do not hit the drive with over 100 GB of data without rest. And when the drive is idle (when you are not slamming it with data), the drive quietly transfers data off of its super fast NAND fabric to its much slower NAND fabric. Then, the next time you go to use the drive, all of the fast NAND fabric is available, and the drive runs super fast. But if you write hundreds of GBs to the drive, without rest (for example, if you use the drive as temp storage for mining Chia crypto currency), you will run out of the drive's fast NAND fabric, and the drive will slow to a crawl -- it will slow to USB 2.0 speed. Note that this only affects writing data to the drive. Reading data from the drive, no matter where within the drive that the data is stored, it will be very fast. If you want consistently fast write speeds to the drive, no matter how much you write to the drive, then get the T5. Samsung did not play games with the T5. It is uniformly fast, throughout the entire drive. But if your work involves chunks of data that do not exceed 100 GB at once, then the T7 will be much faster than the T5. If your work involves chunks of data that do exceed 100 GB of data, then you will probably be better off with the T5. Again, this applies only to the write speed, and only if you will be pounding away on the drive non-stop for hundreds of GB of data. If the T7 did not pull that slow-down crap, with large data writes, then it would be the ideal portable drive, and would flirt with USB 3.2 gen 2's speed limit. Two final points: 1) I quoted 100 GB of constant writes as the point where the T7 slows down. That is an approximation. Nearly all SSD manufacturers do this with consumer level SSD drives (such as the T7), and it is why you are not paying $hundreds$ more for the drives. There is no set percentage of the drive that is built for the fast part or the slow part. It varies by model, and by drive capacity. Usually the larger drives will have more of the fast NAND fabric. How much of the fast NAND fabric is present is hard to say. But 10% is probably in the ballpark. 2) If you see benchmark tests, keep in mind that those benchmark test never test the slower part of the drive, because those benchmarks do not hit the drive with enough non-stop data to reach the slower part of the drive. So you will see exactly what the manufacturer wants you to see -- just the first few percentage points of storage space, which runs the fastest. You would have to run a benchmark test that writes at least 250 GB of data, to really get a glimpse of how the "entire" drive performs. You do not find such tests in reviews, because they run for a long time, so people do not run them. Also, the people that run the benchmarks might not know all of the above. They might assume that the results for a 5 GB benchmark would have the same speed results as doing the test for 250 GB of data. But all of this is moot, if the amount of data that you will write never is in the 100+ GB range in a single shot. Cheers!
Answered by SeymourKrelborn
Q: QuestionIs this Samsung item (or any other) able to work with Apple cell phones ?
Asked by DevilDog.
- A:Answer No
Answered by Steve
Q: QuestionCan the drive be formatted to exFAT so it will store from both Windows and MAC OS?
Asked by warren.
- A:Answer Easily formats to exFAT
Answered by Pocketsize
Q: QuestionDo any cables come with it?
Asked by papa13.
- A:Answer Comes with 2 cables: 1) with a USB to C plugs and 2) C to C lugs
Answered by Pocketsize
Q: QuestionDoes this external SSD work on the XBOX SERIES X?
Asked by SCARFACEPR.
- A:Answer Yes. It can be used to play games and store content... BUT note that optimized Series X/S games are designed to be run from the Internal drive (or the optional Seagate expanded storage drive), so all other (non optimized) games can be played from this drive.
Answered by Beez