SAMSUNG T7 Portable SSD 500GB - Up to 1050MB/s - USB 3.2 External Solid State Drive, Gray (MU-PC500T/AM)
When buying through Amazon prime it's $119.97.
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Any 1tb or 2tb variations cheap?
None in the Samsung, only seagate 1tb $144 but slower speed “ transfer speeds up to 400 MB per second.”
Bugger! Thanks for looking! I like the Samsung ones, I’ve got a few. I’ve always had issues with sea gate external drives so have stopped buying them!
@Kangaroo Jack: No worries, I know they had them listed only a week or so ago, so keep checking microsoft store while the 20% off deal is going may get listed again
Fricken legend, thanks
Can it connect to smartphones?
With a C-to-C or C-to-Lightning cable yes
C to lightning doesn’t work. I think you need some kind of adapter to power it.
Those with AMEX and are targeted could stack with AMEX $100 get $20 back.
Biggest differences between the T5 and T7?
T7 is faster. No other differences.
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And the digit in the model name!
Sequential speed is roughly double on the T7 compared to the T5, also uses a USB 3.2 Gen 2 instead of a USB 3.0 interface, so older devices probably won't see much of a speed benefit.
T7 also offers the T7 touch version which has a fingerprint scanner, which this one does not have.
T7 touch version which has a fingerprint scanner
To unlock the drive? From what I have read the built in encryption on these drives have been broken in the past.
Correct. Haven't heard much on breaking the encryption on these, nothing's foolproof but if you've got sensitive files then something's going to be better than nothing.
@BenR31415: Here is the article I was trying to dig up earlier: https://securityboulevard.com/2018/11/researchers-crack-disk…
T5 and T7 both use USB 3.1/3.2 gen 2 interface. The main difference is that T5's SSD is essentially SATA3 based whereas T7 is NVMe.
So, with T5, USB 3.1 gen 2 has more than enough bandwidth for it (T5 cannot max out that bandwidth basically), whereas T7, you could argue USB 3.1 gen 2 still doesn't offer enough bandwidth for NVMe (for sequential read/write). Random read/write, my guess is T7 has some improvement over T5.
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