Samsung SSDs are like this. Some of them are actually NVMe on the inside, but they are still capped at ~450 Mb/s because of the USB interface. That said, I ran

Samsung SSDs are like this. Some of them are actually NVMe on the inside, but they are still capped at ~450 Mb/s because of the USB interface. That said, I ran into problems with T7 series. Sometimes they take several seconds to "spin up" and register with the USB bus, so if a machine is woken up from hibernation, the drive may appear only after the machine itself is up. Meaning, if the drive is actively used by running software, the latter will see it disappear and reappear around the hibernation, killing all open file handles and such. But, another caveat, is that SSDs aren't recommended for long-term archival. Or at the very least this is a "common knoweldge" on the datahoarders sub. The advice is to use conventional HDDs for that.