Reddit reviews Samsung Portable 250GB SSD T5 (MU-PA250B/AM) Alluring Blue

I bought a Samsung off amazon for like 120. Maybe coulda done better shopping around but i trust the name and it’s working great.

Samsung T5 Portable SSD - 250GB - USB 3.1 External SSD (MU-PA250B/AM) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073H552FK?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf

What kinds of games are you trying to run? I use this drive:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Portable-MU-PA250B-AM-Alluring/dp/B073H552FK/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=t5+drive&qid=1570653396&sr=8-4

I mainly use boot camp to run Magic the Gathering Arena and it runs great for me but more demanding games will give you issues.

I recommend something like this. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073H552FK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_ID-7BbPSTB1A7
You can get 1tb but it gets expensive and a 250gb will do the trick, just can't go any smaller than 250 as the Xbox won't recognize it. This one you can just plug in and transfer files right out the box. None of that housing case + drive stuff.

I have this one:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073H552FK/ref=emc_b_5_t?th=1

works like a charm.

It does have to connect via USB so long as you get an "external" and not "internal" hard drive. I'm pretty sure some USB ports on the normal PS4 are better than others (like that support 3.1 transfer), you'll probably want to research that. The regular usb adapter connects to the actual ssd via USB-C in my model (samsung T5 https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T5-Portable-SSD-MU-PA250B/dp/B073H552FK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526491528&sr=8-1)

Samsung drives tend to be pretty popular.

What are you planning to use it for? I'm just curious because a lot of times we get used to having a lot of storage, but when we delve into it we realize we could easily get away with much less. With so much being focused on cloud services/streaming you might find 256gb isn't really a problem. Of course it all depends on what you're doing!

In terms of external storage, I would personally go for the Samsung T5 drives. Those are the drives I have been looking at recently and, if I had a need for one, that would be the drive I would get. I think the size is great, they look great, they're fast, and the price is reasonable. You can check them out here if you're interested: Samsung T5. Definitely scroll through the pictures and look at how small they are, it's really kind of amazing!

I would recommend a Samsung T drive. It's a portable SSD 250GB and higher. 250GB is $109. Samsung T5 Portable SSD - 250GB - USB 3.1 External SSD (MU-PA250B/AM) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073H552FK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_7fGeAb47SR642

Samsung T5 250gb works like a dream and not to expensive and comes with everything needed, no need to buy extra cables or housings. And yes you can use it for games even though it's less than the 256 Microsoft says is the limit.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B073H552FK/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8

I think the problem you were having was that the computers you tried had Hard Drive Disks and what you need is a Solid State Drive which are much quicker. If you still have that laptop it's a pretty quick fix and SSDs are physically much smaller than HDDs so it would be easy to fit in the same slot. You only need about ~35gb right now for the full blockchain but I'd get 120gb to future proof yourself which shouldn't be too expensive.

You could also maybe just get an external USB SSD (preferably USB 3.0 which your laptop hopefully supports) and save it there which would be much easier and only slightly slower. I recently bought this Samsung T5 portable SSD which is currently on sale at amazon but if this seems expensive to you then the internal SSD is much cheaper and probably the better option for you.

-Samsung T5 external 250GB+ $119

-MyDigitalSSD OTG v2 240GB+ $90

-Samsung 860 EVO 250GB+ $80 + $20 enclosure w/ USB 3.0

Any of these will work great. T5 is the best performing, the OTG is probably the cheapest overall considering enclosures. The first two are plug and play, the third one you need the enclosure to use.

I have both of the first two.

Some considerations:

-You can use a regular USB stick of the 240GB+ class, but it will corrupt and die out sooner than a purpose-built SSD (about 10x the life expectancy). USB sticks are a little slower on read/write as well.

-Getting an external HDD like a mypassport will not load you in as fast as an SSD but will still slightly improve performance on an OG/S if you can't swing the extra ~$40 (I have one of those too and don't recommend it for this game)

Good to know, thanks.

Can't you just install Solidworks in a Windows VM through Virtualbox or VMware Player? That would eliminate the need for your windows partition. Use NTLite or something to create a super slimmed down ISO of windows 7 or something, so it doesn't take up a ton of space. Since you only need windows for 1 thing, it would make sense to do this.

You could even just store your VM on a small external usb SSD like THIS so it takes up no space at all.

This is what I did to use Xamarin

For extra storage a fast Micro SD card like a Samsung EVO+ or Evo Select is a good choice. For reference, check other sources for availability and pricing.

There are also small USB SSDs available ...
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T5-Portable-SSD-MU-PA250B/dp/B073H552FK/

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T5-Portable-SSD-MU-PA250B/dp/B073H552FK/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
can't really beat the performance though, especially when creating content, looking to get similar read/write speeds as the internal ssd.

That's a good idea, thanks for the tip! This one got really good benchmark scores:

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-T5-Portable-SSD-MU-PA250B/dp/B073H552FK/