Review on Samsung X5 Portable SSD 1TB Thunderbolt 3 External SSD - Gray/Red (Model MU-PB1T0B/AM) by Jasmit Singh ᠌

- On the MacBook Pro 2022, the disk intermittently falls off with the message "The disk was not ejected correctly." Appears when the macbook is running on battery power. I don’t know whether the disk suddenly lacks power, or some kind of hardware and software incompatibility, but this behavior does not please. I tried to change the cables - it doesn’t help (of course, I use only Thunderbolt-3 cables, I didn’t confuse it with regular USB-C). ADDITION: as a result, I disassembled the disk and found a severed SMD capacitor inside. I don’t know when disassembling it came off or even earlier, but perhaps this explains the spontaneous shutdowns of the disk during operation, which I wrote about above. That is, not a design flaw of the model, but simply a defective copy. - Samsung's disk encryption software is unsatisfactory. Installs its own low-level kernel extensions in MacOS, the quality of which is questionable. In principle, you can easily do without it and encrypt the disk using MacOS itself, but, unfortunately, the disk firmware can only be ated through this software. - It is also worth considering that the device only works with Thunderbolt-3 connectors, it cannot be connected to a computer with USB-C.