Review on SAMSUNG Portable SSD 500GB MU PC500H by Nick Beck

At $250, you could do worse for two terabytes of external SSD storage for your brand new PS5. It doesn't have the speeds of a decent 2TB NVME SSD found in something like the Asus Arion, but at this price point you can live with read speeds of 1000Mbps. Like the T5 and T3, the T7 works well as an external drive for the PS4 and PS5. Both consoles will install game updates on the T7 when in sleep mode. The PS5 features USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, so you can enjoy the speed benefits of the T7 when playing PS4 games stored on an external device. That means you CAN see those speeds until the T7 starts to heat up. And it's getting warmer. Unlike the T5, which remains surprisingly cold during long continuous recordings, the T7 quickly reaches a temperature that's only considered "normal" in the context of things like fusion and volcanoes. Well, maybe not that bad. All NVME storage gets hot when you stress it heavily. But the T7 heats up fast enough to throttle itself very quickly. When such a drive has such a problem, showing advertised read/write speeds becomes a Sisyphean task. So, here's how to solve it. If you plan on permanently plugging it into something like a PS5, buy a pair of 40mm x 40mm heatsinks (depends on $8-10) and attach them to the drive. What you lose in mobility you gain in heat dissipation. No more throttling. So yeah, $250 isn't bad for a 2TB T7. You won't get the 1060Mbps read/write speeds I saw when I placed my 980 Pro on an Asus Arion, but to save and play PS4 games on PS5 without using a hard drive, there are worse options out there.