Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Samsung MU-PC500K/WW 500GB T7 Touch SSD Black

Philippe Morgese

Great

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2020

Great, small, fast.

11 people found this helpful

Amazon Customer

Easy to use and fast

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2020

Easy to use and fast

One person found this helpful

Larry smith

Chevy man

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2020

Nice

7 people found this helpful

AJ

My earlier review was not totally correct.

Reviewed in India on March 14, 2020

Everything in the old review is accurate, but only for the default format you get the drive in- EXFAT. I have changed it to Mac OS Extended and NTFS and it works amazing in both formats, never faced that force eject issue. I was wrong about speeds too. They are more faster now. Actually for larger files, earlier, it was about the same speed as of my WD hard drive with moving parts(i.e, not ssd), when T7 was in EXFAT. I do not know why EXFAT was not working in MacOS, cause I have other drives (non-ssd) with EXFAT and they seem to work fine. After changing the format, the speeds are way better for any file size.

EXFAT works with both MacOS and NTFS without an issue. You cannot use the drive in MacOS without additional software, if you are using NTFS partition(mostly not free if you are using multiple drives with NTFS). Vice versa with windows if you are using Mac OS extended. I think it might be a software issue rather than a hardware one thatEXFAT is not working and hope they fix it. I have tried with EXFAT in two MacBook pro's and it was the same issue. I have also tried with two different T7's(I got one replaced thinking it might have been a defected piece), but there were the same issues again.

Old Review:
I have got this 5 days back. It started behaving weirdly since 2 days. It always asks me to 'force eject'(Attached a video). It says other program is using it, even though there is no background app running other than Samsung ssd's app, I even closed that and it's the same result. Suddenly yesterday after unlocking with fingerprint the drive itself was not being shown. It happened for a long time like that. When I insert, it shows the read only disk(which won't have my files as it is expected to), but when I unlock it, it doesn't show the disk with my files. luckily it shown afterwards, I donot exactly remember what I did, I think I erased it for it to work. luckily I had a backup. I wanted to use this with very important and confidential documents and wanted to store them only here and nowhere else. I wouldn't have done that with any other drive, coz it's risky. This thing started malfunctioning too early and I cant even return my product, the only option is to replace, which I don't want cause I do not want to risk it again.

It is very portable and speeds are decent(actually very good considering the portability factor and way better than any hard drives with moving parts, coz it's an ssd), fingerprint works well, all these are of no use if it just stops working and you lose all your important data which you can't recover.

63 people found this helpful

J.L

Fast, secure and portable.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 10, 2022

Great external ssd drive, fantastic way to protect sensitive files.
I got this as I frequently move customer data and needed a way of protecting the data should I ever misplace the drive.
The drive is slim lightweight and stylish, the connector at the back is a standard USBC so even if I lose the cable like I often do it uses a standard connector therfore it's easily replaced.
Data transfer is perfectly acceptable for both small and large files, in fact it’s far quicker than my previous ssd so I have no complaints about the speed.
Once you setup the fingerprint recognition using the software on the SSD you no longer have to use the software, this is a winner for me as several PC’s I use this ssd drive with do not allow software installation therefore I can still access all my files on the drive without installing software.
The T7 Touch is lightweight, well made and secure this is perfect for my everyday use.

21 people found this helpful

Macstarna

Excellent disque dur, très performant et sécurisé !

Reviewed in France on February 22, 2022

Etant passé d'un disque dur portable à plateau à celui ci je suis ébahi par la rapidité de ce dernier, on obtient des performances dignes d'un SSD interne PCIE 3ème génération, c'est à dire qu'on atteint facilement le gigaoctet par seconde en vitesse de transfert. Par ailleurs il est vraiment très léger ce qui est un avantage lorsqu'on est en déplacement. Enfin la sécurisation par empreinte digitale et géniale, le disque dur fonctionne aussi bien sur PC, Android, IOS ou même sur des photocopieurs, oui oui sur des photocopieurs !

Je recommande absolument ce produit, le prix reste d'ailleurs vraiment correcte pour la qualité et les fonctionnalités.

Inkiepinkie

Prima Samsung opslagdevice

Reviewed in the Netherlands on November 14, 2021

Vlotte bezorging en een uitstekend product voor deze prijs. Wel aan te raden om er een transporthoes/doosje bij te kopen. Vooral voor schoolgaande kids.

One person found this helpful

Rob_55

COMPATTO, VELOCE E SICURO

Reviewed in Italy on December 23, 2020

Le dimensioni sono veramente minime e si può riporre insieme ai biglietti da visita, ci sta comodamente!
Il lettore di impronte è affidabile e legge abbastanza prontamente, con il software già caricato non ci sono problemi a configurare le impronte che si vogliono usare.
Dotato di un cavo USB C a USB C con il quale lo collego al mio MacBook Pro - il trasferimento dati è velocissimo. C'è anche un cavo USB C a USB normale e immagino che le cose rallentino molto se lo si usa.
L'unica pecca è il fatto che scalda parecchio durante l'uso ma era una cosa prevedibile e gestibile, con un minimo di attenzione.
Fantastico il fatto che si possa usare anche su iPhone ed iPad Pro senza perdere la sicurezza del lettore impronte digitali. Ho preso il 500GB per provarlo sul campo. Credo che investirò per un altro HD uguale ma con capienza maggiore 1o 2 TB. In generale è un prodotto caro ma, se ci si lavora, credo sia un investimento più che valido!

2 people found this helpful

Amazon Customer

Remplit parfaitement son rôle

Reviewed in France on July 16, 2021

Adaptable à tous les appareils (tablette, smartphone, PC).
Rapide et bien entendu totalement silencieux.