SAMSUNG T5 Portable SSD 1TB - Up to 540MB/s - USB 3.1 External Solid State Drive, Black (MU-PA1T0B/AM)

A day after purchased Samsung T5 2TB,the price went down.I dont have a way to ask a refund for the difference, which is a bout 30$.I will never buy again electronics.I love the T5 , but I will return it because the price I paid 30$ more. I use for backup my mobile Android phone and laptop using Win PE.

My son loves this

Getting incredible data transfer rates, drive came with usb 3.0 to usb c as well as a usb c to usb c and Im getting 500mb/sec transfer rates using usb c. Super happy with it!

it backs up really fast

On board encryption, portable, very handy. We bought more after testing one.

Not much to say other than it does what it was made for. Already on my third SSD purchase and I have not been disappointed in the last 2 years Ive used them.

I have two T5 SSDs of different capacities. I have been always worried about my time machine backup on conventional HHD with moving parts. For the peace of my mind, I use one T5 SSD of 500 GB for backing up MacBook Pro. I use the other T5 of 1 TB as my portable storage. I formatted this storage-purpose SSD in the exFAT file system. Hence, I can use this SSD on three major OSs (Windows, Mac OS, and Ubuntu Linux). There are so many reasons to use this SSD for backing up and portable storage. Among them, three major reasons for me to buy this SSD: 1) Brand name, SAMSUNG, 2) near perfect shock-proof, and 3) less-likely file corruption. It conveniently comes with two cables: USB-c to USB-B and USB-c to USB-c. Its small form factor makes it excellent portable storage. And its transfer speed is FAST! If the price of this SSD of 2TB drops, I will buy one more to replace my photo backup HDD.

easy to connect

Using for audio and video work drive with a MacBook Pro. Seems like the best option out there for external storage. This is my second one!

I only wish I could afford to buy a pile of these. Ive lost a lot of files in the last couple of years, due to hard drives unexpectedly failing, including one that died within about three months...sitting on a desk, not moving, not being touched, not having anything remotely like extreme temperature or humidity. Im not especially concerned with whether its as fast as advertised--its much faster than any hard drive. Whats important to me, is long-term durability. The hard drives that have failed me, failed, I believe, due to mechanical breakdown. Thats not an issue with an SSD...right? The only hard drives that have never died on me, are my pocket hard drives...theyve all taken serious abuse--being dropped, and plugged in, many, many times. My oldest pocket drive is well over ten years old--it has a mini USB port--and has taken much more abuse, due to having only a vinyl-covered cardboard carrying sleeve to protect it. But how much longer can they last?