Samsung T5 EVO Portable SSD 8TB, USB 3.2 Gen 1 External Solid State Drive, Seq. Read Speeds Up to 460MB/s for Gaming and Content Creation, MU-PH8T0S/AM, Black

Had to leave this review. This is the by far one of the best external hard drives (SSD) ever. I have had it a little over a year and a half and it's super portable. Hard to believe 8TB fits on such a compact device. Well worth the money if you need the portability and space. Perfect for daily use while using other larger memory for backups.

Enormous SSD storage. Sure - it's a little slow, but still at least as fast as most spinning drives. Compact - stays cool even under intense use editing and moving lots of extremely large video files.

I use an external computer drive to store media files for use with my iTunes music and video library. This SSD, at the new price point, is great value for so much storage with the amazing access speed and reliability advantages over any hard disk device, which is what I am replacing. I also like that I can easily plug it into any of my other devices, such as phone or tablet, to use the media or to share very large files between the devices. SSDs are clearly now at a price-storage point where fully abandoning hard disks is easy. The fact that I have put many such devices through the wash and dry cycles when I left them in a pocket is just the cherry on top (but I would note that although pretty small compared to disks, it seems unlikely I would leave this one in a pocket).

Very reliable, SSD so it doesn't heat up, very easy to use and the size is great. The design is great also. Just plug in and you're ready to go. I have over 2000 movies and pictures on my drive with room to spare.

T5 EVO 8TB (two of them) Pros: 5 stars - beautifully ergonomic shockproof/weatherproof design, so small it fits in anyone's palm, fast transfer rate Cons: 0 star - none of the pro points above would mean anything if this ~$570 SSD can't fully function out-of-box on a Mac. And they don't tell you that you need to perform over 3 pages of updates (their very professional Support sent after I opened a case) to your Mac and some at root level before their basic SSD app and their more feature-rich Magician app can actually sense the EVO. Plus, if you can't even make these security settings on a work-issued Mac. Totally ridiculous that a customer has to go thru so many steps softening up their Mac's privacy and security posture at root level just for THEIR app to function properly. I purchased a 2nd one just to make sure no physical issues with the 1st one but same issue. If you're a Mac user, I'd skip this one.

I buy samsung as it is the only drive that always works, as I had other ones fail. What is nice about this unit is that it doesn't get super hot transfering data and is super sturdy with this nice grippy silicone material on it. Have several units and they work great. Yes they are a slightly slower transfer speed that some other ones, however not noticeable even with video editing. What is also nice is that it comes in 8tb versions.

The samsung ssd works well, but is limited on speed by design. The interface is USB 3.2 gen1 so it is limited to similar speeds to a sata ssd, 450MB/s is the highest I have seen and under normal use it is more around 200MB/s. It runs cool even under high load due as much to the slow interface speed as anything. I have read some reports indicating issues with disconnecting and drive stability issues but have seen no issues in my use and considering it is 8TB the first time I filled it up (averaging 90MB/s) it was running as fast as it could for over 24 hours, no disconnects, no errors, good CRC test at the end (which also took about 8 hours due to interface speed) It is plug and play on PC and Mac and has more than enough space to backup even the highest Mac laptop spec. If there is a negative to take away the ssd uses QLC NAND so it does have an inherently shorter lifespan but for most users that should not be reached under normal use.

Great purchase, product as advertised.