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Samsung's T7 Portable SSD Now Available for Purchase
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Substancially cheaper to buy a USB 3.x enclosure, and a good SATA SSD and put them together in the 2-5 minutes it takes to install them. Available in any size/brand you want online (Newegg, Amazon, etc), and ready to go in just a few minutes.
Samsung's T7 Portable SSD supports data transfer speeds of up to 1,050Mb/s
Samsung says the T7 Portable SSD can transfer a 10GB 4K UHD video in just over eight seconds, and
Doesn't compute... it should be 1050 MB/s or 8.4 Gb/s
I can confirm it does work on iPad Pro with the fingerprint reader. Connecting it will show the drive within Files but won't actually mount until you unlock with your fingerprint
Nice to have the encryption since iPadOS Files doesn't have FileVault unlocking capabilities yet
Yeah yeah, they can be fast, but for me longevity > speed. Anyways TLC is good for me, I would be worried if it was QLC though.
Thank you!
Personally, I don't need another complication that could break or underperform.
I encrypt all my externals with FileVault anyway.
Arstechnica has tested most major SSD players on the market thoroughly including T5 & T7 family, caldigit tuff nano, sandisk
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Both Samsung and Caldigit ones are performing very well. Caldigit's nano performs the best and most solid according to the research.
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Both Samsung and Caldigit ones are performing very well. Caldigit's nano performs the best and most solid according to the research.
Hi when you said I use it with ly late 2012 iMac, do you mean attached to your iMac through the USB 3.0 port or you opened your iMac to replace the internal DD for the SSD ?
Various people have reported T7 Touch not working with iOS devices, such as this one.
Since T7 is new, it's probably not as heavily discounted as T7 Touch. But in time, you will probably save more. And even if the savings is close to nothing, I would probably take T7 over T7 Touch. Fewer things to go wrong.
If you require encryption, however, I can understand the appeal.
Same. My 2012 iMac’s FusionDrive died and I didn’t want to open it up so I just plugged a T5 in and voila. It’s been running great for the past couple of years like that.
SATA drives are both slower and physically larger than the T7.
Well, darn, I was so hoping that with the T 7 there would be increased capacity, such as 4 TB!!! I love my T 5s and have several of them but really, really was anticipating that the T 7 would go to the next level, not just in speed but in capacity. Guess that's not going to happen yet..... In the meantime, I've been more than happy with the T5 and also the X5 Thunderbolt 3 NVME -- both are plenty fast enough for my needs and I'll continue to use them as I have been. I love the portability of the T5 drives, and they travel with me easily, taking up very little room in the computer bag.
I am glad to see that now they're offering the three colors in each of the three capacities, which is convenient for those who have several drives and need to color-code for whatever reason (say, image files are on the blue 2 TB, movies are on the red 2 TB, etc.).
When reading the description, I notice that they have also worked on dealing with heat, which is good -- sometimes when I've been doing a lot with a drive, it can get pretty hot to the touch.
I imagine that the faster speed will be beneficial to those who like to use these external SSDs as their boot drive, and also for those who like to be able to put their image files right on the external drive and edit their images in there rather than on their computer's internal drive.
I am glad to see that now they're offering the three colors in each of the three capacities, which is convenient for those who have several drives and need to color-code for whatever reason (say, image files are on the blue 2 TB, movies are on the red 2 TB, etc.).
When reading the description, I notice that they have also worked on dealing with heat, which is good -- sometimes when I've been doing a lot with a drive, it can get pretty hot to the touch.
I imagine that the faster speed will be beneficial to those who like to use these external SSDs as their boot drive, and also for those who like to be able to put their image files right on the external drive and edit their images in there rather than on their computer's internal drive.
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Same happened to me on my 2014 iMac 5K. What they don't tell you about Fusion Drives is that the SSD part sees a lot of read/write wear because data gets migrated onto and off of it so much. Perversly, the spinning hard drive inside mine was still going strong when the SSD part hit about 10% lifetime left...
I’ve been using their 4TB model for years on USB-C waiting for an 8TB upgraded model that never came so finally bought Micron’s version and performs just as well.
Sure you’ll get faster performance with a Thunderbolt-3 enclosure but I’ve never seen one that doesn’t require AC power.
Sure you’ll get faster performance with a Thunderbolt-3 enclosure but I’ve never seen one that doesn’t require AC power.
yeah, I was surprised it was the SSD that failed. I managed to split the drives in Terminal and the hard drive is still working fine as a Time Machine drive.
It's great how cheap SSDs are getting lately. I'm looking forward to the day multi TB ones get cheap enough for me to banish my loud Time Machine Toshiba HDD to hell where it belongs.
On MacOSX Catalina, could I install some huge 40GB game on this and then run the game from the drive?