Samsung Laptop Backup Disk

I like this as a backup disk that I can carry in my purse.

I use this drive as the Time Machine backup disk for my laptop running OS X Yosemite; it works nicely. With the drive on my desk, I can still hear the cooling fan, but I don't mind it. I think the device is well designed (easy-to-use and looks good), and it has a good warranty.

When you have a 4TB Mac laptop and want Time Machine backups that keep old versions of files and folders around, you need a backup drive bigger than 4TB. This 8TB drive, formatted with APFS and encrypted, does the trick. Old fashioned mechanical disk drives take forever for Time Machine backups. Since Time Machine runs hourly, it's nice having a drive that can backup everything quickly. This was an expensive solution, but it is so nice knowing I can revert to an old version and keep a lot of old versions of stuff around. The peace of mind is a big payoff. This may sound weird, but I mainly use my laptop at home, sitting on my couch with on my laptop - of all places, sitting on my lap. I just taped this drive to the lid and plugged it in to a TB port and it backs up while I work. Yes, it looks ugly as sin, but I mainly look at the front of my with the screen and keyboard. I don't sit staring at the laptop lid with an SSD taped to it. Besides, there's nothing prettier than a properly backed up disk.

Disk arrived amazingly quick (next day!) I love the disk, except I never did get it set up for over provisioning. Samsung could do a better job with software to facilitate this. Even so, I'd still buy this SSD again. As always, BH Photo is my go-to provider.

I use this drive to create a disk image of my c: drive on my laptop. Easy to use.

I bought these drives to backup the starup disk on various computers. It worked like a charm.

It works not just great, but it is a necessity if I am to be able to use my new backup SSD disk drive. What else is there to say? It works.

I use this as an offline backup device (backup and then place in a safe). without cooling I'm not sure I'd use this as a working disk.

Bought this to add to my new laptop as a second disk. Holds all my Lightroom pix.

I'm using this card as a backup disk for Time Machine on macOS Catalina, works great!