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

Huge capacity, using it for dash cam, no issues so far

This thing is fast. Very fast. And in a compact size too

I was able to install a linux distribution successfully using the usb-c connection. After about two weeks the drive was unreadable. It was not mishandled, dropped or shutdown improperly. It could not be formatted or re-initialized.

I have 3 of these. They are extremely high quality and fast. I bought the T7 because of the advertised speed of data transfer. This is true, but you must have the newest generation of USB 3 Generation 2 in order to get the transfer rate. Otherwise my transfer rate with traditional 3.0 usb was about 200, which is still extremely fast.

The product is very pretty,small and easy to carry,roughly the siza of a credit card,works very fast and reliable,wish i would have bought one sooner definitely recommend.

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.

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.

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.

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.

So far so good. Just using as a backup drive for my music projects. Samsung magician won’t recognize it supposedly because it’s an external drive. Usbc cord doesn’t seem to stay in the pc good so it disconnects and reconnects over and over if the cord isn’t stabilized. Could be my motherboard b450 Msi tomahawk max.