SAMSUNG T5 Portable SSD 1TB - Up to 540MB/s - USB 3.1 External Solid State Drive, Black (MU-PA1T0B/AM)

This device is the size of a credit card. It is really fast when using USB3.1 plug. Had it for a year, still works great and never had any problems with it.

Easy to add storage to any computer. Small and compact. Will store and be able to take my music any where.

So far works as hoped for

Storage devices abound these days. You can put your data on any number of flash media from thumb drives to multiple card formats. In the USB-only category, larger capacity storage has usually be dominated by small hard drives, which deliver decent performance for a low cost. For smaller capacity storage, the thumb drive was a good compromise, very portable and acceptable with USB2. USB3 opened up a new world of performance, and suddenly several things happened - the small hard-drive no longer looked as nice for performance and the price gap was quickly closing with flash in the middle market sizes. But for the larger > 256Gb portable storage sizes, portable flash and internal SSD prices started to converge also. What Samsung has done with the T5 is essentially create an externalized SSD. Speed over USB3.1 simply blows away the thumb drives and the small hard-drives, and the cost per GB hits a sweet spot. If youve got to move a good chunk of data (think video or multi-track audio), or youre tired of your timemachine backups taking six hours, this is your solution. And its rugged too - I throw mine in the laptop bag and dont even worry about it. Just dont lose it - with the bigger size comes a bigger loss.

Great product use with my iPad Pro and Mac mini. Cheaper storage then getting apple storage.

I plugged it into my raspberry pi and it just worked like a charm. The product was the same as described.

Formatting this to use through the Time Machine app for my Mac was easy!! Select the drive and allow Time Machine to formate for backups. Done!

Fast but not crazy fast.

My initial suspicions were aroused when I noticed the packages security tab had been compromised.

Super fast external hard drive. Works reliably.