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

Incredibly small and fast. Fits in your pocket. Holds way more than that. Pricing vs quality is great. Very easy to use - though it may be important to note I am using with a Samsung ecosystem. Not sure if that helps overall performance but if you are using Samsung definitely work with these.

In limited use, this drive is blindingly fast, extremely compact, runs on bus power (i.e., power provided by the host), and works with Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, etc. Can't really think of anything bad to say, though black, while basic, is also boring. A nice, deep blue would have been cool.

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.

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.

DO NOT BE FOOLED. Absolute garbage. Seriously. I've had two fail, and the two I have left are barely hanging on. They're incredibly slow the more you fill them up, and often cause finder to crash when mounted. Really really REALLY bad an overpriced. I work in post production and take good care of my drives. STEER CLEAR!

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).

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 little drive, small enough to be easily portable with more than enough storage for pretty much everything you can think of... This is a good product, if not for the expense of acquiring it. But if you can afford it, then snap one up and back up or use it as a primary between machines and friends and anything else.