Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this SSD as a Geek Squad refurbished product. The USB Type C to C cable gave me problems right away when plugging it into my 2017 MacBook Pro. It would give me different results no matter what end of the cable I was plugging in. The blue light indicator on the SSD would be blinking when it was working properly but it would usually either turn solid blue and not be detected by the computer or it would not turn on at all. The cable would also come out slightly if I was moving my MacBook for a more comfortable position and this would mark an error for not ejecting properly (this can cause file problems). The other cable that came with this was the USB Type C to A which worked fine but I needed to use my adapter (a.k.a dongle) which isn’t very convenient. I wish I made this review sooner or made a request for a new cable but my loss can be your gain. Check everything and don’t settle for something that works half the time.

So far I had put 3 different games on this drive which is 218 gb in total( Battlefield 5, Apex legends, and Rainbow six extraction. The drive is quick, small, and computer games can be played off of it. While installing big titles with prolonged use this 1tb ssd gets hot. I've only had it for two days and everything seems ok. I got both type-c to type-c cords and the type-c to USB. Two of my concerns were 1.) It's a refurbished memory device-2.) That the type-c would easily be pulled out from the port on the t5 SSD but it doesn't and about the refirb I will see if this lasts and if so for how long. When I first plugged this device into my laptop it wasn't showing up as a usable memory device. I thought the ssd came faulty but a quick YouTube video later helped me enable my laptop to detect and use the t5 SSD as a storage device. So far things are good.

This is SSD is compact, light, and perfect for what I needed. I was so surprised, honestly. It's easy to slip right into my laptop bag and go. And it's lightning fast.

I use this for editing video. It’s fast enough to edit my A7SIII footage in FCPX without any hiccups

Great ssd hard drive. Small, fast, light, very portable, very durable. Works with both Windows and Mac. Extremely reliable- I use them in Alaska all year long to store photos and videos from drones and aerial mapping.

The product did not come in the original packaging, which is not a complaint. Rather, it's to say that otherwise, I would not have been able to tell that it was "refurbished". Just be careful taking it out of the box. Mine unexpectedly fell out of the packaging. Luckily, it was a short drop; so, no damage. I was surprised at how small the drive is. The speed is what I would expect from an SSD. I've had no problems with the drive generating excessive heat, etc.

Needed something to backup my MacBook Pro and this fits the bill perfectly. It's small, fast and portable. Love it.

These drives are great! I bought a second one, to run my Native Instruments Komplete library out of. It loads Kontakt instruments at least 3x as fast as the former LaCie Thunderbolt drive I was using. Amazing. I use the first one for library storage as I'm working in Final Cut Pro X. There is very little wait time to rendering - it has always been spot on. Best thing going so far.

Ooh. This little guy is fast! I bought this external SSD to share large videos with my wife, who uses a MacBook Air M1. The external SSD is compact in size and transferring video files to it happened extremely quickly. The videos were on my iPad Pro, and I used the included USB-C cable for the file transfer. The unit itself feels sturdy; I'm sure it'd survive a small drop. survive a small drop.

What a world of difference, a delite using my MAC again. It seems to go from 1mph to 100mph( you know what I mean) SSD is REAL, the way computing is suppose to act, no beachball, no waiting, just click and its there WOOOOOOHOOOOO and using a external SSD is a lot EZer then installing one.Get up and get one and you'll see what Im typing about.

BEST COMPANION IF YOU NEED ADDITIONAL STORAGE. THIS COMES IN HANDY AND VERY LIGHT WEIGHT TO CARRY. IF YOU NEED ADDITIONAL STORAGE THIS IS THE WAY TO GO. I NEVER HAD ANY ISSUES TO THIS DATE ON THIS SAMSUNG EXTERNAL SSD DRIVE. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

My first impression about the Samsung T5 1TB External USB Type C Portable Solid State Drive was its size. Compared to a credit card, it has exactly the same height, its length is a half inch less and its width is the same as a stack of nine cards. Wow! I bought a refurb and it has performed flawlessly so far and it is very fast. I can transfer hundreds of 40MB RAW files in at least half the time it takes to transfer to an optical drive. Very happy with my purchase.

This drive is exactly what we needed. It's small, portable, and fast, and it doesn't need an external power source, so it's perfect for laptop computers.

Great small compact ssd. Very fast speeds and works great with MacBook. Got it used for cheap

I now have 3 sizes of these Samsung SS USB Drives. Never have a problem and they are perfect for travel when you need to back-up photos.

Very compact and fast I was using a regular external drive for my backups. This is a fraction of the size and waay faster doing backups

It’s everything you would expect I use this drive as my primary editing drive for photo and video use.

I use it with Nvidia Jetson nano as main ssd for close to a year. It works very well. Not a single problem

I did not end up keeping this b/c sandisk had one for cheaper and performance seemed the same

I love this. I use it with my Playstation "Classic" Console and have Jailbroken it to hold over 500 Original Playstation games on this hard drive. Only thing is, If you use for this specific purpose you will need to use a Powered USB Hub with it. Great little drive, I may buy a second one just for storage for my Laptop to carry around in a small package.