Customer Ratings & Reviews

I love this 500gb SSD Drive. Its a fast external ssd drive! I use it with my pc and my mac. It's reliable. I backup my documents, pictures and videos.

I Plugged it into my "2007 Dimension E521 VISTA Desktop computer". It does NOT come up as a visible drive in Windows Vista Explorer and the Blue LED is "super DIM", such that I did not even think that it was on, even thought it shows as mounted in the "Safely Remove Hardware Icon of the taskbar" as "Safely remove mass storage drive". NEXT. . . I plugged into "2019 HP - ENVY x360 Laptop" and it also does NOT come up as a visible drive in the "Windows 10 Explorer" and the Blue LED is "NOT ON". . . HOWEVER. . . It does show up in "Disk Management" as "465.76 GB Unallocated" and there is a message that I must initialize this Drive before I can access it. I get the same result regardless of which cable or USB port (3.0, 3.1, or C 3.1) that I use with this Samsung External T5 SSD. Disk Management gave the option to initialize with GPT or MBR, but warned that the GPT is not recognized by all previous windows, and so I am trying to initialize with MBR. It would not initialize with MBR and so I decided to initialized with GPT and then once initialized with GPT I was able to convert it to MBR. I then formatted with NTFS with 8KB Allocation. This Drive came up as 465.76 GB Hexidecimal (i.e. . . 500 GB Decimal). It seems that I could NOT have fixed this Drive in anything earlier than Windows 10. I noticed that the Blue LED never turns on when running on the "2019 HP - ENVY x360 Laptop" but The Blue LED does Turn ON Dimly lit on my "2007 Dimension E521 VISTA" Desktop computer. * mjw notes: This Samsung T5 was supposed to come pre-formatted as exFAT, but it came as "465.76 GB Unallocated". I guess that has something to do with it being refurbished by Best Buy. I thought this drive would come with some software installed on it, but it seems that there never was any software on this drive because it came with "465.76 GB Unallocated". Now it seems functional as a 500GB External (NO Password protect) SSD Drive, and the blue indicator LED functions on both computers.

Initially, when I first plugged in my new refurb'd drive my computer didn't see it and I thought that I had a defective unit. After further online investigation I found that often with a new external drive you have to get into the computers disc management system and assign the new drive a letter designation, Example - D:, once this is accomplished the new drive functions perfectly every time I plug it in. It is a nice little SSD drive with lots of available space for mass storage. I am certainly not a computer ops nerd but was able to figure this out quite quickly. I recommend this drive to all that need extra storage space to back up your documents!

Price was good and product was identical to actual product with cables and ssd drive (no Samsung box!). No issue. Test speed just like the benchmark online and it totally solved my problem with my XBOX One X which was really slow on some games such as Cyberpunk 2077. Also, most of the enclosures and other drives keep getting disconnected with Xbox One (and One X) but this one literally no disconnection even when it goes to sleep. Cannot be happier with this product and also paid less because it was a certified refurbished.

Great External SSD easy to carry. Without the worry of movable parts and small footprint is the perfect traveling companion for all my pictures. The USB connection is ultra fast.

This little drive is a GAME CHANGER. It amazes everyone how fast it can copy files. If you have a time restricting job that always has large files to pass back and forth, this is for you. I copied a 12GB folder in less than a minute! It also nice being so small and easy to pack away. It also comes with 2 wires...one for USB A and USB C, which is handy if someone is on an older Mac and another is on the Touchbar.

Compact, lightweight and high-speed I had to reset it to read my pc and my cell phone

I learned about the benefits of an SSD for an Xbox and decided I needed one. I'd just bought Battlefield V which is a huge game and has some long load times. So according to Google and hard-core gaming nerds an SSD will significantly reduce game load times and make games run smoother. I don't own a lot of games so I don't need much space. Just enough for a few games I'm currently playing. I wanted a type C cord to go with my phone so I went this route. I didn't do any tests or clock the load speeds. I did get Forza 4 and ran it a few times off the console's hard drive before transferring it to the SSD. Wow, definitely a huge improvement when loading the main menus! The size is perfect too. I live in hotels 85% of the year and this fits perfectly in my Xbox's card case.

Didn't know what to expect from a refurbished drive, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the drive was erased correctly and set for me to format the drive to my needs (PS4 back up drive). Would recommend picking up refurb again to save a couple bucks especially if it's not a drive that will get heavy use.

It's small, light and I store it anywhere. I use this to back up my Samsung Note 10 plus as well as my Samsung Tab S6. The Samsung T5 500gb is more than enough for me to back up my movies, but I music and pictures. I would recommend this tiny device to anyone needing a small, but powerful external storage.

Has been running flawless for 8 months. Make sure that if you are adding this solid state drive to a Nvidia Shield TV that the shield TV is on and running the latest firmware. If you don't, enjoy the headaches.

This was a great price option with the Refurb. I've had no issues with it. I formatted it so that it could be used between my Windows and Mac laptops. The portability and speed makes this great.

Disk attaches to Mac with a small USB C cable. Easy to get unmounted and the disk itself is hard to format and find pictures. It also gets hot, isn't super fast and will buy a different brand in the future. Have used internal Samsung memory sticks and SSD drives and they were all great. This one is a bit of a disappointment.

It's a great versitle hard drive. Really fast and easy plug and play. Light and Small. I use it with iPad pro and works perfectly.

Great Item, small and compact. works with computers and smart phones, just not stupid iphones that have a connector that nobody else uses.

A nice portable way to move data/photos/music/documents from one PC to another PC. Solid state is much faster too!

I use this for my Xbox one X and it’s awesome! Improves load times as well!

Super small. Very light. Lighting fast transfers. Love that it’s usbc

This was purchased as a refurbished ssd. So it came with no instructions. Initially, on first use, it wasn't recognized by my phone and I was going to return it. I have had such a good track record with Best buy, I figured that the problem may be mine. I did some research and determined that it needed to be formatted first. Once it was formatted, it has worked great.

I use this item for loading games onto my Xbox One X. I load into games like PUBG, COD, and Battlefield series and I am ALWAYS the first one in the lobby. It's great because I can get to any of the vehicles first in Battlefield, on PUBG I am first to pick up guns off the table. Game loading times are cut by 33%-50%