A:AnswerYes, you can use this SSD drive as a 2nd drive for your gaming computer. My nephew has the same Samsung SSD 1TB connected to his gaming computer and it works great.
A:AnswerThere would be no purpose in doing so unless you want to display video/image files you have already saved to the external drive. Assuming your TV has a USB drive, you can connect it that way. Otherwise, you would need a real computer and not a TV which is just a display.
A:AnswerI'm not familiar with your specific laptop, but my Surface laptop is about the same age and the external drive
made a huge difference with game speeds.
A:Answeryes, it comes with a USB c to USB A cable which is backward compatible with at least USB 2. I have plugged it into a USB 2 type A with no issues. Keep in mind it will transfer at the slowest connection in the chain.
A:AnswerYes you can if you have a small (1 or 2Tb) hard drive -and You'll get it done FAST!
My Dell Laptop has a total of 9TB of solid state drives so I need a 10Tb drive to back up all files... 1x 4Tb, 2x 2Tb and a 1Tb mSata,
All Samsung brand.
A:AnswerI am not sure, but I believe that windows os and mac osx (especially the m1 chip) use different formatting. As long as you know how to manage the menus in the Disk Utility you should be fine.
Tl;Dr : I think you have to reformat it but it's fairly simple.
A:AnswerI'm using this for my Xbox Series S and it's not encrypted. So that answers your first question. I'm afraid I can't answer the second because I'm not using the drive for anything else but I have not had any problems since I've been using it.
