Samsung 870 QVO Series 8TB 2.5 Inch SATA Solid State Drive

Highest capacity you can get but lowest-common-denominator interface (SATA3 / 6G) and I wasn't even able to quite reach the advertised speeds over it (reads and writes were 10-20 M slower without a filesystem and in the 400s with one). I still decided to keep it anyway. It basically performs as well as any SATA-based SSD does. My main apprehension is knowing it's QLC and won't have great total bytes written before it wears out. As with all QLC, it'll be better suited to less frequent and total write use cases (where you also don't need the absolute fastest reads but latency for either is a factor). It's very light, probably the lightest 2.5" SSD I've ever handled (I'm not sure if that's good or not). It's recognized and fully functional in Magician when attached via SATA (it either doesn't with any USB to SATA bridges, or not the ones I tested with). Trim/unmap (especially important on a QLC drive) worked via SATA but not my USB bridges (I'm not sure where the issue was because other drives in these enclosures supported trim/unmap). I did have some issues with the USB adapters in general (JMicron, Via, ASmedia) but I'm not sure if it was because this is the largest SATA drive I've ever tried in them and they don't handle it properly, if it was a power issue, or something else. Since it always worked via SATA, I chalked it up to low quality USB SATA bridge chips and/or insufficient power passthrough.

Used Samsung SSD's for years, nice and fast, good reliability. My 1st choice SSD brand.

I love the size for the price.

So happy with this ugh amazing tech

Bought these on deal, they are a great product. I would buy them again.