Samsung Portable SSD T5 vs Samsung Portable SSD T7

99) capacities are blue. It's a lot more subdued than the smaller, gold Adata SE730 External SSD, and a bit more attractive than the relatively plain-looking OWC Envoy Pro EX, which has a greater length, but otherwise similar dimensions. All three of these drives will fit in a pocket more easily than the G-Technology G-Drive Slim SSD, a traditionally sized drive (0.39 by 5

Samsung's Portable SSD T7 is a crowd-pleasing, compact external drive with strong security (256-bit AES hardware encryption) and a rough-and-tumble aluminum chassis.

1. Windows Defender scanning files being opened/written using a single thread causes a huge bottleneck when dealing with lots of small files on modern SSDs. Multi-theaded scanning would have been immensely helpful, but defender only uses a single thread in these operations (probably multithreaded in some parts, not all) - wow.

Might come in handy as a hand warmer in winter... In the end I just deleted the Samsung software and used Disk Utility to erase and re-format the drive to APFS (Encrypted) and placed a password on the drive

Out of the box it comes formatted as ex-FAT, but reformatting to NTFS made a huge improvement in data transfer speeds. 3. Lastly, the unit comes pre-loaded with an older version of Samsung's Portable SSD software. I'm not sure if it affects how the unit transfers data, but make sure to upgrade it to the latest anyhow (done through the software itself)

I went for Titan gray because I thought it would match the awesome look of the space gray of my MacBook Pro. The main question is, should you buy this...

However, I wouldn't recommend anything less than a 500GB, preferably 1TB or even 2 TB if you can. Get the biggest you can afford. Samsung T5 is fine, no need for anything supporting over 500MB/s as even the Series S|X are only USB 3.0

Capacity is more than fine for my needs. It gets warm when using it, but nowhere near hot or even too warm. Both USB-C to USB-C and USB-A to USB-C cables included. Price seems fair

Just as the the memory sticks in a desktop computer do when you turn off the power. So if you are going to use yours for a back of important documents, irreplaceable photos, ..

Overall a highly efficient, reliable and durable SSD that does exactly what its meant for...

Remember to reformat the device to exPhat if you're using a non-iOS pc to make it compatible. Forgot to mention, but I bought a used version of this drive instead of a new one and it still holds up despite minor external scruffs.

Ease of Use: The T7 is plug and play with my computer and PS4 console, just use the included cables for USB-C or USB 3.0 connection and you need do nothing more. No driver needed to be installed or downloaded for it to work on my Windows PC or PS4 console. It is very easy to use