Samsung Announces 8TB T5 EVO Portable SSD

[gpat]

I like that OWC+Dual 8TB Samsung idea and ordered it as well. Not a friend of such cobbled-together solutions and it lacs TB3 (not necessary for the SATA Speed), but 16 TB in Raid0 sounds promising and it IS only 200€ more than the external as-slow solution from Samsung. Let's see.

Considering the fast Apple SSD – I'd also rather have their stuff cheaper. Going for 4 TB on Studio and MBP is a pain in the ass and 8 TB, which would make more sense, is almost prohibitive. I don't get why a «pro» company like apple has such exponential prices when the hardware goes, well... pro. That said, the performance of their internal drives is so much better than anything external, it IS much, much preferable to any kind of external drive, even at the faster TB4-speeds.

The way this develops, all in all, is a good one. I hope I can live to see that day that a T7-sized drive holds 48 or 64 TB. By then we will need it for all the 16K movie material. ;-)

Glad to have helped you. I found that to be the ideal solution as it allows me to stuff in my backpack the whole of my digital life, without resorting to the cloud.

I needed something >10TB and bus-powered (no external power supply needed), and only that fitted the bill.
It baffles me that there aren't more solutions like that.

I could have settled for a 3.5" HDD but no self-powered enclosures existed. Seagate developed something called the Innov8 but it has been discontinued for a long time.

I'd also instantly buy something like a NAS with multiple NVMe slots (4/6/8), battery backup power, and USB-C charging.
So easy to conceive and cheap to manufacture. But we didn't get to that point yet.

 

[Killbynumbers]

I can't get the links to open at all, probably my adblocker.

 

[MacHeritage]

I would use the T5 for TimeMachine backups.

That is exactly what I was thinking for a backup drive for an 8TB MacBook Pro. The price is so much lower compared to other 8TB self powered setups I was looking at previously but has the same quality of drive. I will have to investigate this further.