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

I recently switched from my external hard drives to a couple of these SSD's and I have been thoroughly impressed. The size is extremely small for an 8TB storage. I get pretty good read and write speeds and it is so quiet of course. There is a blue indicator light thst lights up when it's being used. It's made to be rugged and taken on the go but I'm using mine for Steam game storage and backups for my photos/videos. I am using Type C cables and I sometimes get disconnects. I believe this is just an issue with my front ports when they get bumped and I have a Type C hub on order there should hopefully solve that issue. It is quite expensive but the life expectancy over a hard drive is significant and so much quieter.

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.

Good product from Samsung,but with this speed,price should be 30% less

Love the size, capacity and speed of this external hard drive! I dj, so I didn’t expect for it to work this good. It doesn’t lag and tracks load as if they were on my MacBook. 2 thumbs up!!!!!

The media could not be loaded. Update: It unfortunately crashed yesterday all of a sudden and required formatting. I could access it, therefore had to format. Lost all of my data BUT was fortunate enough that I had a second 8TB Samsung Evo. Took me all night to copy all files again from one SSD into another. Be careful and try to keep 3 copies of your files on different devices for such occasions. Taking my words back regarding that SSD being awesome. Appears to be not reliable at all.---------------I was not sure whether to buy it or not since I saw a lot of negative feedbacks here. I am happy that I decided to go with it and purchased it. I have attached a 13 sec. video without any blurring where you can see openly that I reached an average of 250-260 MB/S speed when I was writing big video files onto my T5 EVO, 8 TB. Take into account that I have been copying from T7 Shield, 4 TB. connected directly to Type-C input on my laptop to T5 EVO, 8 TB connected to docking station through Type-A, USB 3.0. Nevertheless, I have got the mentioned speed of writing. For the small files, the speeds of writing get slower and be sometimes around 15-20 MB/S, but it happens with all drives of such type. For me, it is NOT a decisive factor since I use T7 Shield SSDs (I have 4 of them, 4 TB. each) and T5 EVO, 8 TB. to backup my files and do not constantly erase and write new files. Also, plays smoothly on my Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra smartphone. Highly recommend this product since it is small and can easily accommodate into anybody's pocket and it is so convenient to carry it with yourself at any times.

I bought this 8 Terabyte SSD because I needed a SSD with a larger capacity to do a Time Machine backup of my MacBook. The SSD I was using was a Samsung T7 Shield and it worked great, but the largest capacity it comes in is 4 Terabytes. Because it worked great, I wanted to stay with Samsung, and found this one. The physical size is very compact and built really solid. I think all SSDs are overpriced, but not having to use an AC power cord is a major plus for me. My first Time Machine backup with this SSD transferred 4.27 Terabytes of data and took 3.1 hours. I don’t know if that’s fast, slow, or normal. I know from experience, the first Time Machine backup always takes a long time. Speed was not a concern, my priority was to hold a large amount of data and this SSD did the job. Very happy with this purchase.

No external drive can replace the internal ones. When I watch a 1080p video from the drive, the video will pause a few times for a couple seconds. The read speed is fast enough that if I want to watch a large video, I simply copy it to the internal drive. It doesn't take long.I bought this after using a hard disk drive but it had a capacity of 5 TB and I had nearly 4.5 TB in files on it.I would give the drive 5 stars but the weakness is that the drive will heat up to the point that it shuts down. That means I have to disconnect it periodically and let it cool down.

It seems to me when using the native software for various operating systems. You tend to have more challenges. I have found by reformatting and using the encryption scheme native to the operating system. The performance seems to be much better. I am one month in to my 8 TB drive and use it for a back up every few days and so far it’s definitely slower than a T9 but it seems to be functioning with no challenges.