SAMSUNG T7 500GB, Portable SSD, up to 1050MB/s, USB 3.2 Gen2, Gaming, Students, & Professionals, External Solid State Drive (MU-PC2T0R/AM), Red

Update: drive is now not working on either USB A or USB C port on multiple laptops so dropped to one star I had better luck with the Sabrent Rocket Nano 512GB USB 3.2 so if you have a dell laptop maybe try that one. I have no non-dell PCs to try it on but have 3 Dell laptops and it is not working on any of them. =============== I leave this T7 drive plugged in all the time as a hard disk extension on a work PC (cant upgrade PC hard disk) so wanted fast transfer speeds. But after all windows, Dell, and Samsung upgrades are applied it still does not work on USB C port on an older Dell Precision 7520. Disconnects quickly after connect or never connects when plugged into the USB C port. This is older PC HW so maybe the USB C port on the laptop is the issue. This was a review to warn others with older PCs. The USB C port does work fine to drive a 4K 60Hz display (but display worked fine on the real display port connector so thought USB C port could be used for a fast hard drive. Maybe Dell (?) had to compromise on the USB C driver update and picked display port emulation part of the USB C feature set over hard drive working well. Probably a good choice for most people as not too many display port to HDMI cables available that do 4K @ 60Hz . It also has had problems with random disconnects but think that was due to the silicon cover I had bought to cover the drive contributing to the overheating issue this drive seems to have. I removed cover as it is not a spinning disk so cover was really used for cosmetic reasons. So USB 3.1 speeds on a traditional USB port (good thing both cables are included) will have to be good enough.

This works to store dash cam footage and if you want to play your own music (mp3s). You just have partition the drive. Works perfectly!

10/10

So far so good. The drive is really fast with the USB-C to USB-C connection and I havent had any problems with overheating. Im only using it as a Time Machine Back-Up so it doesnt get much use on a daily basis. Whether this helps or not I dont know. My complaint with the vendor is that the drive they sent me was used like new (see the attached photo) not a new drive (which is what I ordered). While the drive really does look like new to me this feels a little bit like a bait and switch and I suggested to the vendor they might want to give me a small rebate on the price because of this. I have gone back and forth with the vendor and they either dont see this as a problem, or dont care, or ... Im tempted to send it back and get another one (although its not clear if Ill then just get another used like new drive). Ive had good look with other Samsung solid state drives so Im hoping this one wont do something like crap out the day after the return window closes. Well see.

I got this during a sale for around 75$ and Ive been very happy with the purchase. Its quite portable (small size) and very slim. Just plug and go, no complications. Very fast transfer speeds as well.

Color Red T7 is actually some shade of Terra Cotta (light Orange-Red), not actually Red. Write Speed is higher than Samsung T5 @ 787.4 MB/s but quite lower than the Sandisk Extreme PRO External @913.2 MB/s, Read speed 878 .9 comparable to Sandisk Extreme PRO External 886.7 MB/s. (Both were formatted in APFS with no encryption) No heat, or burning heat as other reviewer complained, juts mildly warm as it suppose to be. May be because I am using MacBook Pro and no Samsung encryption driver. APFS encryption works perfectly okay, not much difference in speed and no extra heat. Overall good deal for current price of $79.99, not the full price of 109.99 for 500GB, anything more than 79.99 I would suggest Sandisk Extreme PRO External or Crucial 500GB X8 Portable SSD.

I bought it as a SSD for my dash cam in a Tesla Model 3. At least 4 times a week, i get an error message on my cars screen. I have to unplug the SSD from the car USB several times until I no longer get a error message. Disappointed.

Fast read write. Light and easily portable. Great SSD.

Overheats and randomly unmounts. Don’t buy. Go with the T5 instead.

Im very impressed with this SSD. Not only is it very thin, small, and light, it is also blazingly fast. I have a recording studio, and on a traditional thumb drive, it takes almost 10 minutes to back up the files for a single project. With the T7, its done in 2 seconds. Im using it with a Mac Mini M1 using the Thunderbolt 3 connection. Wow! is it ever fast!