I would love to see some more affordable options for internal 8TB m.2 drives. I just want some faster storage options, that don't need to be extremely fast, to make them a bit more affordable than the current price point of $1,000.
@@kenwilliams3279 I have both 2.5 sata and u.2 8tb drives, but unfortunately it is an option for PCs only, not for laptops. Very few modern laptops allow sata 2.5" drives, not to mention that Samsung QVO is very slow even for sata SSDs, nvme should be a lot faster
Agreed. I like these because it’s a reliable long term storage that we won’t have to worry about drive failure. I’m in the same boat that I wish we had more affordability for larger capacity internal SSDs
I have a 2TB M.2 and it only cost me $100. Intend to add an 8TB SSD internally but wanted to check out the option in this video first. I will probably go with the internal,option because the drive will be faster and I have no intention to move it from place to place. Anyway, that is approx 10TB storage in my PC in total. I can keep the operating system and all software on the main drive. The second drive can be movies, games, etc. The prices for M.2 and SSD are very competitive now, and having both is the best of both worlds. You can have a folder on your desktop makes ‘storage’ and just dump all your files into it. Perfect.
@@BillyMcMorran I mean, yesterday the MP44 was only $800 at Newegg and Amazon, and now it's like $20 more and you can get the Samsung 8th QVO SATA drive for a little over $600. Prices are definitely coming down, but still a little too rich for my blood. Though they are getting to a point that 4TB NVMe drives are worth considering.
Superb presentation. This SSD's appeal to me is it's capacity, the main downside for me is the speed. Given it's hefty pricetag, I'll probably wait and see if a faster 8TB comes along. That's the plan, but I am an impulse buyer so....🤔
Not a very technical review. Interested in knowing TBW, type of nand, how long it can maintain its stated write speed, cache memory if any, etc. Not at all a bad overview, but I notice the makers do not offer much information about these drives on their product pages which makes me very hesitant to buy one. The overall quality of the basic review though was phenomenal and I liked it for that. Please do not hate me for being honest here, but I transfer 4TB per day (use the drive to move large projects back and forth via sneaker net) and really interested to know how long this will last in TBW?
I’ve been looking to back up all my files to keep in a lockbox at the bank that I update each year. All my family photos, documents, and person work files are mostly digital. I’ve been eyeing the 8tb Samsung 870 Sata so I’m curious how this compares in price. Thank you for you coverage of SSDs and storage in general.
Finally, an affordable (we hope) high capacity drive!! Took them long enough. That said, I bought a Cooler Master Oracle enclosure to quickly transfer data between multiple locations. But now that's done, it's just sitting there without a purpose. Any recommendations on m.2 drives that would pair nicely with it, to use as another external SSD?
It seems like you'd be better getting an 8tb Samsung 850 QVO drive and putting it into an enclosure for half the price (about $340 atm on Amazon), though a little more chunky
The humidity specified as “non-condensing” brings me a chuckle as ambient temp will affect whether condensation occurs at a given humidity. Quite the notable qualifier.
I was surprised Samsung is reviving the T5 series with the T5 EVO. I thought the T5 series was permanently discontinued since I could not find other T5 SSDs in the Samsung official online store.
This might just be the right upgrade for my 500GB T1 drive that starting to behave iffy with the USB connector on it and running out of space to store my old footage on.
Samsung will have to seriously push their prices to make it a compelling buy, if 4TB Samsung 990 Pro gives 7GB/s r/w, they gotta make this T5 Evo cost no more than 1/10 of the price/capacity, something like 40€ for 4TB T5 Evo doesn't sound likely at all though
I've been looking for external storage for a while and the biggest struggle is credibility. Samsung or Scamsung? It's really hard to tell the difference these days.
Hi Nada. I noticed from your charts there are THUNDERBOLT SSDs available. My knowledge of this type of PC port is NIL. Please tell me the difference between USB and THUNDERBOLT ports. My MB supports both, but I need to know what devices connect to the THUNDERBOLT port.
I needed an SSD of at least this size, but I've had issues with mine from the beginning. I lost the entire contents after I just copied to it.... I reformatted into NTFS and found that it randomly switches to super slow USB 2.0 at times.... Could be my PC, but I doubt it. I also love my t7 touch in 2GB, it's more than twice as fast to write to it. Not pleased with how slow writes are....but it is faster than a platter...
I'm more capacity hungry than I am for performance, although that use of only USB 3.2 is disappointing. Seems to be the only 8TB small portable powered SSD on the market but will get this.
Spec wise for me it's fantastic. Wish I could afford 4-5 of them or even one. No idea what the price will be, but I am guessing more than 0.60 cents that I currently have lol. But yes, it does look like a potentially a great drive not just for the specs, but perhaps hopefully to start a bigger push for larger capacity SSDs to finally replace (cost wise) larger hard drives.
@@shaonian interesting - I've noticed that many manufacturing are designing their products these days to pass the benchmark apps with flying colors but when you start using them, you begin to realize that it's all a fraud. I wonder if samsung is using a similar method to scam the system - activate hard drive to its full capacity the first few minutes - but then throttle the speed to keep the device from overheating. Same thing can be observed with smartphone - and laptops. So many gaming laptops die within a year or two, because they squeeze in a very fast gpu - and to make things worse, many manufacturers also make their gaming laptops super thin (a sales gimmick, apparently), which basically causes the thing to die within a year or two due to the heat destroying the life span of all components.
This is a great informative video thanks. How does the Samsung T9 Compare to The Samsung T5 Evo? I’m having trouble deciding between the two? Thanks in advance 🎉
Big Capacity - Yes Please Small Performance - YES PLEASE Huge price tag - oh nvm I was hoping by now there would be some kind of ultra budget large capacity SSD to compete directly with HDDs - as bulk storage for less important data Even like 200MB/s would keep me happy at the right price, as it's basically what a HDD does but would have far better random I/O and be far less physically fragile But alas, per TB this is still around triple the price of budget SSDs, which are themselves between triple and quadruple the price of 3.5" HDDs
I'd say this IS competitive..... as far as external hdds are concerned. I bought WD my passport ultra - 2tb - a bit less than 100 dollars. Samsung 5t evo 2tb cost me a bit over a 100 dollars, while the speed is about 3 times faster. Dunno about the lifespan though. I am still of the opinion that faster does not necessarily mean better - those things do heat up and their lifespan is significantly reduced as a result. The reason why I bought 2 different hard drives is for security purposes - just had an internal 1tb die on me after only 9 months.... not cool, losing that much data.
If it was a 10 Gbps drive with about 1000MBps then it would be really interesting but this is just an 2.5Inch SSD enclosure well a bit smaller but like nothing new or special in my opinion. Idk this is a sad product it could’ve bene amazing at a Nice price and speed for 8TB 😌
I would rather buy two cheap NVME SSD’s or even two 990Pro 4TB because they are verry cheap at the moment just bought one today for €249 and put them in a 40Gbps USB 4 enclosure or even a 10Gbps enclosure. Idk maybe just me but to me this speed isn’t acceptable anymore in 2023.
with the decreased price of t7 and t7 shield , there is just no reason to buy this one. Actually in China the t7 shield is even cheaper with same 2tb space. so why buy this ....
Can someone explain to me the reason to have a high capacity storage drive so portable??? Why doesn't someone make an 8,10,or 20 tb ssd the size of a WD one book? (maybe 4"x8"x6" box). A high capacity external SSD would not have to be fast or portable if you just want to store thousands of files long term.
A high capacity drive should be at least decently fast - you don't want to take 2 days off to transfer the data. Also, if your main drive has problems, you want to get the data transferred as fast as possible. Very small is not really necessary but of course nobody will make the drive bigger just to be bigger. People these days don't even have laptops, some just tablets or just phones - a small SSD means easier use when you're using other small devices. For desktop users of course it doesn't matter if they don't travel with it. But the main thing that's just unclear even after all those years is how secure is having data store on offline SSDs since they loose the capacity to store data after months/years depending on the temperature.
thank you for explaining all the tests
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Thank you! And one more bot muted! Tbh it's not as bad anymore as it used to be.
thanks for your in-depth review!
My pleasure!
I would love to see some more affordable options for internal 8TB m.2 drives. I just want some faster storage options, that don't need to be extremely fast, to make them a bit more affordable than the current price point of $1,000.
I'm still using Samsung sata 8tb drives for that reason. Affordable 8tb nvme drives will mark a good day
@@kenwilliams3279 I have both 2.5 sata and u.2 8tb drives, but unfortunately it is an option for PCs only, not for laptops. Very few modern laptops allow sata 2.5" drives, not to mention that Samsung QVO is very slow even for sata SSDs, nvme should be a lot faster
Agreed. I like these because it’s a reliable long term storage that we won’t have to worry about drive failure. I’m in the same boat that I wish we had more affordability for larger capacity internal SSDs
I have a 2TB M.2 and it only cost me $100. Intend to add an 8TB SSD internally but wanted to check out the option in this video first. I will probably go with the internal,option because the drive will be faster and I have no intention to move it from place to place. Anyway, that is approx 10TB storage in my PC in total. I can keep the operating system and all software on the main drive. The second drive can be movies, games, etc. The prices for M.2 and SSD are very competitive now, and having both is the best of both worlds. You can have a folder on your desktop makes ‘storage’ and just dump all your files into it. Perfect.
@@BillyMcMorran I mean, yesterday the MP44 was only $800 at Newegg and Amazon, and now it's like $20 more and you can get the Samsung 8th QVO SATA drive for a little over $600. Prices are definitely coming down, but still a little too rich for my blood. Though they are getting to a point that 4TB NVMe drives are worth considering.
Have 2 old T5s with 1Tb. Fast and rock solid.
Superb presentation. This SSD's appeal to me is it's capacity, the main downside for me is the speed. Given it's hefty pricetag, I'll probably wait and see if a faster 8TB comes along. That's the plan, but I am an impulse buyer so....🤔
Hey fellow Johnny, can I do something for you for one too? I really need a external drive to backup real soon!
Not a very technical review. Interested in knowing TBW, type of nand, how long it can maintain its stated write speed, cache memory if any, etc. Not at all a bad overview, but I notice the makers do not offer much information about these drives on their product pages which makes me very hesitant to buy one. The overall quality of the basic review though was phenomenal and I liked it for that. Please do not hate me for being honest here, but I transfer 4TB per day (use the drive to move large projects back and forth via sneaker net) and really interested to know how long this will last in TBW?
Rubberized coating so often turn into an oily sticky mess, a bad idea.
I’ve been looking to back up all my files to keep in a lockbox at the bank that I update each year. All my family photos, documents, and person work files are mostly digital.
I’ve been eyeing the 8tb Samsung 870 Sata so I’m curious how this compares in price. Thank you for you coverage of SSDs and storage in general.
Finally, an affordable (we hope) high capacity drive!! Took them long enough.
That said, I bought a Cooler Master Oracle enclosure to quickly transfer data between multiple locations. But now that's done, it's just sitting there without a purpose. Any recommendations on m.2 drives that would pair nicely with it, to use as another external SSD?
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Thank you for posting this excellent product review. The testing is really thoroughly done and I agree with all your conclusions about this device.
It seems like you'd be better getting an 8tb Samsung 850 QVO drive and putting it into an enclosure for half the price (about $340 atm on Amazon), though a little more chunky
Samsung has these drives listed on their site USD: 8tb $650, 4tb $350, 2tb $190.
I rather buy the 2tb T7 Shield for $99
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Happy to hear that!
The humidity specified as “non-condensing” brings me a chuckle as ambient temp will affect whether condensation occurs at a given humidity. Quite the notable qualifier.
Great content and great video, love the shots and the review :)
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I was surprised Samsung is reviving the T5 series with the T5 EVO. I thought the T5 series was permanently discontinued since I could not find other T5 SSDs in the Samsung official online store.
Interesting, I need this just for archive purposes. Thank you!
This might just be the right upgrade for my 500GB T1 drive that starting to behave iffy with the USB connector on it and running out of space to store my old footage on.
Samsung doesnt give TBW warranty for their portable ssd's?
@Techtesters Excellent video, does the low read/write speed mean that I cannot watch movies directly from this external SSD?
Samsung will have to seriously push their prices to make it a compelling buy,
if 4TB Samsung 990 Pro gives 7GB/s r/w, they gotta make this T5 Evo cost no more than 1/10 of the price/capacity, something like 40€ for 4TB T5 Evo doesn't sound likely at all though
Have you done a review on the wd_black sn850p?
I've been looking for external storage for a while and the biggest struggle is credibility. Samsung or Scamsung? It's really hard to tell the difference these days.
I was expecting some mention of the fact that this is QLC drive...
1:30 Nail polish fingers make the drive feel like a nicer product somehow.
Old USB 3.1 with 460MB/s in 2023??? Samsung, are you crazy?
Could you please review the Seagate firecuda 540 2tb one thanks!
SSD enclosure are better right?
Hi Nada. I noticed from your charts there are THUNDERBOLT SSDs available. My knowledge of this type of PC port is NIL. Please tell me the difference between USB and THUNDERBOLT ports. My MB supports both, but I need to know what devices connect to the THUNDERBOLT port.
What is TBW for the T5 EVO 8 TB?
They have discount now and $199 for the 4tb, get it or still Crucial X9 Pro for Mac better because one comment say the T5 Evo doesn't work for iPad?
I needed an SSD of at least this size, but I've had issues with mine from the beginning. I lost the entire contents after I just copied to it.... I reformatted into NTFS and found that it randomly switches to super slow USB 2.0 at times.... Could be my PC, but I doubt it. I also love my t7 touch in 2GB, it's more than twice as fast to write to it. Not pleased with how slow writes are....but it is faster than a platter...
I'm more capacity hungry than I am for performance, although that use of only USB 3.2 is disappointing.
Seems to be the only 8TB small portable powered SSD on the market but will get this.
SSDs need firmware updates too?
WHY?!
Spec wise for me it's fantastic.
Wish I could afford 4-5 of them or even one.
No idea what the price will be, but I am guessing more than 0.60 cents that I currently have lol.
But yes, it does look like a potentially a great drive not just for the specs, but perhaps hopefully to start a bigger push for larger capacity SSDs to finally replace (cost wise) larger hard drives.
Your videos bring me so much comfort 💖💖 And you're always so pretty
Would you be inetrested in benchmarking microsd cards like the upcoming 1.5tb model for like steamdeck use ?
Thanks! 🤩
Would you say this is also a good solution for phone file transfers? With phones being able to record in high resolution these days
I think I'm gonna stick with my T7 2tb, but still this one's decent I guess!
Thanks!❤️
Appreciate your SSD Reviews!
Thank you! :D
I have a Samsung S23 phone... Can this device be used with my phone as externam storage???
am i bettor off going with an external SSD enclosure and getting something like an WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe or a SABRENT Rocket Gen4?
That's nuts
Is 8tb portable ssd can save files memories for lifetime?
Are there any tlc based 8tb external ssds
Did anyone try to disassemble it? I wonder if there is an nvme drive with adapter that could be used in PCs and especially - laptops? 😎
When filling the whole drive the speed drops after writing 5,9TB to a dawdling 33MB/s. A plain old harddisk would be at least 4 times faster.
In what test please?🤔 I saw @ Anandtech 5,25TB with 430-440 MB/s (took ~3,5h.)and after that ~60 MB/s, so it took 9h. to fill 90% of the 8TB T5 Evo.
Yes!! I was shocked. People are not testing when the ssd is 70% or more full.
This thing is garbage and reviewers are not realizing it.
@@shaonian interesting -
I've noticed that many manufacturing are designing their products these days to pass the benchmark apps with flying colors but when you start using them, you begin to realize that it's all a fraud.
I wonder if samsung is using a similar method to scam the system - activate hard drive to its full capacity the first few minutes - but then throttle the speed to keep the device from overheating.
Same thing can be observed with smartphone - and laptops. So many gaming laptops die within a year or two, because they squeeze in a very fast gpu - and to make things worse, many manufacturers also make their gaming laptops super thin (a sales gimmick, apparently), which basically causes the thing to die within a year or two due to the heat destroying the life span of all components.
I had the rubberised finish - it's a lint collector and a deal-breaker.
Its read n write speed 480/s sounds slow i think 🤔 other options have 1024/s now any one ☝🏽 notice this ?😊
Thank you.
Hi I’m looking for an 8tb external ssd specifically to play ps4 games on ps5 is this the best option for that?
8TB is cost around $650USD
I would not use this one for working on projects, it is more a big but still fast backup (when traveling)
This is a great informative video thanks. How does the Samsung T9 Compare to The Samsung T5 Evo? I’m having trouble deciding between the two?
Thanks in advance 🎉
T9 is much better generally. I have a roundup coming soon!
I guess t5 evo plus will come with usb 3.2 gen 2 speeds. Still, this drive is miles ahead when compared to external HDDs.
Samsung make it at least fair price but still ip rating is good to see, maybe they can make t7 shield 8tb version with at least a little price hike.
Im in confused, Should i buy t5 8tb or t9 4tb ?
Depends on your use case. But I'd say a T9 is far better generally.
@@TechTesters okay thank you very much.
We want 8tb version with water and dust protection
Is it TLC or QLC? Maybe I missed it - and nothing on Samsung's page.
QLC
What is the difference?
@@raymondicalia5710 QLC will be less durable and usually slower on larger transfers. They had to give larger cache to sustain that speed.
@@WojciechKobus thank you for the reply. I appreciate the information.
Price for large external storage is so hard to stomach compared to mechanical, or just a nas. Still on the road to normalization
But SSD are more resilient. Mechanical HHD are nightmarish.
And you said that is an external SSD right?
Sadly my Comments about SSD Performance are getting deleted. Thanks.
I don’t delete comments. TH-cam will automatically delete anything with external links or profanities though.
@@TechTesters Appreciate the feedback, Neither one was used here.
The 870 QVO 8TB is priced at approximately $380, whereas the T5 EVO 8TB seems to be too expensive.
Additionally, the specifications of T5 EVO suggest that it has lower performance capabilities compared to 870QVO.
You’ll lose some performance running it over USB but I would go the qvo+enclosure route unless the t5 evo was closer to 400USD
If Sabrent couldn't normalize 8tb SSD's don't kno if Samsung can.
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It would take me over a year to save up for this 😢
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8TB that’s a lot of Feet 🦶 Pics for such a portable package
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Big Capacity - Yes Please
Small Performance - YES PLEASE
Huge price tag - oh nvm
I was hoping by now there would be some kind of ultra budget large capacity SSD to compete directly with HDDs - as bulk storage for less important data
Even like 200MB/s would keep me happy at the right price, as it's basically what a HDD does but would have far better random I/O and be far less physically fragile
But alas, per TB this is still around triple the price of budget SSDs, which are themselves between triple and quadruple the price of 3.5" HDDs
There on sale on Amazon today! I got one 4tb for $200
I'd say this IS competitive..... as far as external hdds are concerned.
I bought WD my passport ultra - 2tb - a bit less than 100 dollars. Samsung 5t evo 2tb cost me a bit over a 100 dollars, while the speed is about 3 times faster. Dunno about the lifespan though.
I am still of the opinion that faster does not necessarily mean better - those things do heat up and their lifespan is significantly reduced as a result.
The reason why I bought 2 different hard drives is for security purposes - just had an internal 1tb die on me after only 9 months.... not cool, losing that much data.
Shame they capped this at 5GB/s
If it was a 10 Gbps drive with about 1000MBps then it would be really interesting but this is just an 2.5Inch SSD enclosure well a bit smaller but like nothing new or special in my opinion.
Idk this is a sad product it could’ve bene amazing at a Nice price and speed for 8TB 😌
I would rather buy two cheap NVME SSD’s or even two 990Pro 4TB because they are verry cheap at the moment just bought one today for €249 and put them in a 40Gbps USB 4 enclosure or even a 10Gbps enclosure. Idk maybe just me but to me this speed isn’t acceptable anymore in 2023.
My GF sent me this video, I don't know why :/
she wants you to store more girls.
Perhaps you need more drive..
with the decreased price of t7 and t7 shield , there is just no reason to buy this one. Actually in China the t7 shield is even cheaper with same 2tb space. so why buy this ....
Once it gets (much) cheaper, eventually :)
😅that's true....@@TechTesters
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guess not buying this for gaming then
I'd pick something else for gaming :)
$700 affordable?????????
Their words, not mine. It will need to drop in price if it's 700$ IMHO.
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i can buy 2 top notch m.2 4 tb ssds and 2 usb4 enclosures for cheaper bruh
$650 for a 5gbps drive is unacceptable especially for ssd. Lol don't even know what's the point.
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extremely slow
Can someone explain to me the reason to have a high capacity storage drive so portable??? Why doesn't someone make an 8,10,or 20 tb ssd the size of a WD one book? (maybe 4"x8"x6" box). A high capacity external SSD would not have to be fast or portable if you just want to store thousands of files long term.
A high capacity drive should be at least decently fast - you don't want to take 2 days off to transfer the data. Also, if your main drive has problems, you want to get the data transferred as fast as possible. Very small is not really necessary but of course nobody will make the drive bigger just to be bigger. People these days don't even have laptops, some just tablets or just phones - a small SSD means easier use when you're using other small devices. For desktop users of course it doesn't matter if they don't travel with it. But the main thing that's just unclear even after all those years is how secure is having data store on offline SSDs since they loose the capacity to store data after months/years depending on the temperature.
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