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

The size is incredibly small and thin. I dont have USB 3.2, but it seems fast enough for me. I havent experienced any heat issues.

I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of those USB – C SSD by Samsung. This model supports USB 3.2 GEN 2. However my MacBook Stone Age model only supports USB 3.0. Despite that, performance is excellent. The drive is about 40% full and still performs the way it did when it was new. I did have to format it once when I first had it; I don’t remember if I installed a firmware update or not. But when I first got the drive, after using it for a short time, performance dropped significantly. A reformat, maybe a firmware update, and the drive has been flawless since. It is small, lightweight, and Portable. It does get a touch warm but I never had to worry about it overheating. Wakes from sleep quickly. I use it as an external drive to supplant my iTunes and movie library. In that regard, it works excellent.

Incredibly fast and portable. Not much else to say

I needed a portable, fast SSD to put my large res photos and videos on to edit from. This thing is fast! 500GB was relatively cheap...I will get more of these!

The best. Somehow thinner than the T5 - and super fast. I edit 4k video directly off this drive using only USB 3 - and have had no hiccups. Also like that the cable is longer than what is usually included with these hard drives.

I wrote and erased a few hundred GB to the drive over three months, and after I started my laptop this morning, the entire drive was completely unusable. I cant write to or read it from Windows 1122H2, Ubuntu, or Android 12. Irreplaceable data is now lost forever due to Samsungs incompetence.

Very fast, easy to operate.

Works fine! Im not gaming on it but seems to be as fast as old moving parts internal drive. I love extending the live of old computers and this did the job.

This thing is super small and so much faster than I expected. I mainly got it to store pictures on, and I’m super happy with it so far.

The Samsung T7 Portable SSD 500GB is perfect for backing up my iMac (Late 2013). My backup of a little over 99GB took about 95 minutes with ExFat format via a usb-A port but when I reformat to APFS format, the same backup took only 75 minutes. I am happy with that performance until I upgrade to an iMac with Thunderbolt 3 speed.