Solid State Drives have now been turned up a notch,
thanks to Samsung.
As of Wednesday March 2, 2016, you can purchase the
Samsung Portable SSD T3, a 2TB SSD (Solid State Drives) as reported in the article
“You
can no buy a 2TB Solid State External Drive that's barely larger than a thumb
drive”, published March 2, 2016 By Justin Pot, Digitaltrends.
The US$850 Samsung Portable SSD T3, successor to last
year’s T1, is a USB 3.0 drive that has dimensions of 74mm x58mm x 10.5mm
(2.9" x 2.3" x 0.4") and weighs only 51 grams (1.8 ounces).
Like many other innovative products, it was announced
at CES (Computer Electronics Show) 2016 and is much larger in size than the
US$665 1TB Kingston DataTraveler HyperX Predator as explained in my blog article
entitled “US$665
1TB Kingston DataTraveler HyperX Predator - Why SSD Sized Thumb Drives cheaper
than Cloud Drive”.
The US$850 Samsung Portable SSD T3, which is available
on Amazon, offers the following specs:
1. 422MBps
Read speed
2. 392.6MBps
Write speed
3. AES
256-bit hardware encryption
The T3 series of SSD's also comes in the following
size on amazon
1. US$130
for 250GB
2. US$220
for 500GB
3. US$430
for 1TB
4. US$850
for 2TB
So why would anybody pay this much for an external
SSD?
Samsung
Portable SSD T3 - How SSD are cheap Portable cloud Storage in your pocket
The speed is one reason.
It uses a USB 3.0 drive and albeit there are 1TB HDD
that cost a lot less, SSD's are faster than SATA (Serial AT Attachment)
portable Harddrives, which basically have mechanical moving parts.
I know, as I’ve now got two of them, both of which are
2.5" SATA Drives I’ve salvaged from laptops and begun using an external
drives. Mechanical drives read speed maxes out at 100MBps, which is much slower
than the Samsung Portable SSD T3 read speed of 450MBps.
Also the 2TB Samsung Portable SSD T3, at US$850, costs
way less than the US$600 1TB T1 from 2015. This makes the US$850 Samsung
Portable SSD T3 a very tempting offer that serious videographer and photographers
as described in my MICO Wars
blog article entitled “How
the Photographers of St William Grant Park are beating smartphone Selfies”
looking for portable key chain sized storage cannot resist.
Finally for those of you with a habit of misplacing small
objects, never fear, you can use the US$29 TrackR Bravo from Phone Halo to keep
track of it as noted in my blog article entitled, once you had the presence of
mind to attach it to your keychain.
The US$850 Samsung Portable SSD T3 is a little talked
about value product that along with the Samsung Gear 360 as described in my Geezam blog article entitled “How
Samsung Gear 360 is a Creative Tool for YouTube VR Content” came out of CES
2016 and is set to take the world by storm by December 2016!
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