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Unleash Blazing Speeds and Security with the SAMSUNG SSD T7 Portable 2TB External Solid State Drive

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2024

I recently acquired the SAMSUNG SSD T7 Portable External Solid State Drive in its 2TB variant, equipped with USB 3.2 Gen 2 connectivity. This sleek and portable storage solution has truly impressed me with its exceptional performance and reliability.

Firstly, the design of the SSD T7 is sleek and modern, featuring a compact form factor that easily fits into the palm of my hand. The metallic finish gives it a premium feel, while the shock-resistant build provides peace of mind when carrying it around.

In terms of performance, this SSD is an absolute powerhouse. With USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface, I've experienced blazing-fast read and write speeds, significantly reducing data transfer times. Whether I'm transferring large files, editing high-resolution videos, or running demanding applications, the SSD T7 handles it all with ease.

The storage capacity of 2TB is ample for my needs, allowing me to store a vast amount of data, including multimedia files, documents, and software applications. It's perfect for professionals, content creators, and anyone who requires large storage capacity on the go.

One of the standout features of the SSD T7 is its advanced security options. The drive offers password protection and AES 256-bit hardware encryption, ensuring that my data remains safe and secure, even if the drive falls into the wrong hands.

Furthermore, the SSD T7 is compatible with a wide range of devices, including laptops, desktops, gaming consoles, and mobile devices. The USB-C to USB-C and USB-C to USB-A cables included in the package make it easy to connect to various devices without the need for additional adapters.

Overall, the SAMSUNG SSD T7 Portable External Solid State Drive 2TB is an outstanding storage solution that offers top-notch performance, reliability, and security. Whether you're a professional on the go or a content creator in need of high-speed storage, this SSD is an excellent choice.

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ChiaYuan_Wu

I am not sure why it collapsed

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2024

So I have an old laptop that is 2019. I use it over the years and it is bugging on the keyboard. 500gb, I forgot how many hz, 4 GB of ram. Not bad at all. But but but every time I use this drive with it, the laptop has a hard time to transfer the data. I could use it, but it collapsed randomly. If I dare to put my vivado files in it(which what I was tempted to do so so I can use Vivado on my laptop) it opens and closes poorly.

However, this problem was not present for my new laptop (yes I give up that idea at the end to save my grade) it is alright.

Why? Is it because my old one has less ram for the memory it has? 1tb is too large for my ram to deal with because it only has 500gb itself? I don't get it.

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Igor Kuts

Unleash Blazing Speeds and Security with the SAMSUNG SSD T7 Portable 2TB External Solid State Drive

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2024

Color: Titan GrayCapacity: 2 TBVerified Purchase

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Alex Musick

Small and performant

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024

Color: Titan GrayCapacity: 1 TBVerified Purchase

I bought this as supplemental storage for my low-capacity Macbook. I was worried that it might be too inconvenient to use, but I've been very impressed.

Performance: Excellent. It gets the advertised speeds and I don't notice any slowdown when using it compared to my internal SSD.

Form factor: WAY smaller and lighter than I expected, in a good way. Its profile is scarcely larger than a credit card, and it's slightly thinner than a Bic pen. It's just big and sturdy enough that you won't easily lose it, but small and discrete enough to slip into a bag or sleeve easily.

Encryption: I think that any mobile hardware with personal data on it should be encrypted. I was planning to encrypt the drive using third-party tools, but realized after buying that it has its own encryption hardware built in. The official app for decrypting the drive is super easy to use, and since it's all handled on the SSD itself, there's no extra overhead and minimal performance impact.

If you're looking for an SSD that will see moderate daily use, this is easily the one to get.

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Digital Donkey

A Portable Powerhouse for 4K Prowess

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2024

Color: Titan GrayCapacity: 2 TBVerified Purchase

Dive into the realm of ultra-high-definition videography with the SAMSUNG SSD T7 Portable External Solid State Drive, boasting a colossal 2TB of space. This isn't just an external drive; it's a vault of speed and reliability, a perfect companion for your iPhone 15 Pro's 4K ProRes video shooting prowess. It's like having a personal, pocket-sized cinema archive, ready to safeguard your creative masterpieces.

The SAMSUNG T7 shines brightest in its performance with 4K video files. Handling ProRes video from the iPhone 15 Pro is no small feat – it demands speed, capacity, and endurance. The T7 meets this challenge head-on, like a champion sprinter who's also a marathon runner. It's the digital workhorse that videographers dream of – fast, robust, and with space to spare.

But it's not just about raw power. The portability of this SSD is a game-changer. Compact and lightweight, it's like a digital nomad's secret weapon. Whether you're capturing the urban sprawl from a rooftop or chronicling wildlife in a remote jungle, the T7 is your faithful companion, ensuring your data is always at your fingertips, safe and sound.

The design and build quality also deserve a standing ovation. Encased in a sleek, durable shell, this SSD is both a style statement and a testament to resilience. It's like the James Bond of external drives – suave, sophisticated, and ready for action in the most challenging environments.

TL;DR: The SAMSUNG SSD T7 Portable External Solid State Drive is a powerhouse of storage, speed, and durability, tailor-made for the demands of 4K ProRes video shooting on the iPhone 15 Pro. It's more than an external drive; it's a portable, robust vault for your high-quality video files, ensuring that your creative work is captured and preserved without a hitch. With the T7, your 4K video endeavors are in safe, capable hands.

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Neves2k9

The SAMSUNG SSD T7 is blazing fast,

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024

Color: Titan GrayCapacity: 2 TBVerified Purchase

The SAMSUNG SSD T7 is blazing fast, with read speeds of up to 1,050 MB/s and write speeds of up to 1,000 MB/s. This means you can transfer large files, like movies and games, in seconds. I was able to transfer a 50GB file in less than a minute!

Compact and portable:

The T7 is small and lightweight, making it perfect for taking on the go. It's about the size of a credit card, so it will easily fit in your pocket or bag.

Durable and rugged:

The T7 is built to last. It's drop-resistant from up to 6 feet and is also water and dust resistant. This means you don't have to worry about it getting damaged if you accidentally drop it or spill something on it.

Stylish design:

The T7 comes in a sleek and stylish design that looks great with any laptop or computer. It's available in three colors: black, red, and blue.

Easy to use:

The T7 is plug-and-play, so you don't need to install any software to use it. Just plug it into your computer and you're good to go.

Security:

The T7 comes with AES 256-bit hardware encryption to help keep your data safe. This means that even if someone loses your drive, they won't be able to access your data without the password.

Overall, the SAMSUNG SSD T7 is an excellent portable SSD. It's fast, durable, and stylish, and it's easy to use. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a great way to store their data on the go.

Here are some additional positive things to mention about the T7:

It comes with a three-year warranty.
It's compatible with PC, Mac, and Android devices.
It includes two cables: USB Type-C to Type-C and USB Type-C to Type-A.
It's energy efficient, so it won't drain your battery.

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Dr Mike

Solid, reliable, familiar...

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2023

Color: RedCapacity: 2 TBVerified Purchase

I now own several generations (and 3 colors!) of Samsung T SSDs- T3, T5, T7 plus the Shield version.

They've been my long-time go-to, especially as prices come down and file sizes go up.
Thin-sliced from my 1st review: It's an easy-to-use and very secure little device, fast and simple to use across devices and even systems, as plugging in it opens a choice of OS and a window to log-in. The password is always what you assign at set-up, and it's hard-wired into the device, so it stays secure, requiring password every time it's first connected.

Tech specs you can read. It's fast, blazing when connected to other SSD's. Gets a little toasty with huge transfers (like my 1GB initial transfer from another drive). It comes with two types of USB cables, which work well, and secure it well even if pulled around a bit on its short length. I'd note that the T7 Shield is an exception, consistently coming (in my experience) with a poorly designed connector/receptacle, nearly impossible to keep a solid connection unless you don't breathe or vibrate things when you type. That bad.

I digress. This - the basic T7 (newer software interface but basically same as T5 - is one of those things that "just works". Like the others, on the Mac it may hava some small quirks - like saying it's disconnected when you first connect, or similar, but it works fine, 100% of the time for me thus far, all of them (knock on wood). Unless you really truly like the idea of the ridged design and heat-dissipation of the Shield, I'd advise against it (I called Samsung, they said they'd send a new cord, and didn't, and claim not to know about the port/plug issue). That off my chest, I love and swear by the T5s and T7s, and caveat emptor on the Shields.

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Jeffrey Imbody

Good drive, fast, gets a little hot.

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2024

Color: Titan GrayCapacity: 2 TBVerified Purchase

So this drive is exactly what I was looking for. Good capacity, I can fit it in my pocket. It has password protection, and the interface can go USB A or C. It also didn't break the bank. I downloaded the free migration software from Sony, and am in the process of a data migration from my old laptop to my new one which will arrive soon. I also plan to use it as backup storage for my new laptop.

The unit is FAST compared to some external drives I have used. I migrated 396 gigs of data in less than 45 minutes. I am a little concerned about the heat put off by the drive. It did seem a bit hotter when it was working then I would have expected, but the data seems to have survived the transition. I will write more once I have finished the migration process.

Overall, I think it's a good drive.

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G. Jones

Works right out of the box

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2024

Color: RedCapacity: 1 TBVerified Purchase

No fuss, no muss. This is my third T7 SSD. I have tried SanDisk and found that not to be reliable (gave it away) and replaced with this one. Perfect. Reliable. Compact. Comes with all possible cable combinations so an adapter is not required.

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Bill P.

Super fast, light, and small. Will get warm but not to extremes

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2021

Color: BlueCapacity: 1 TBVerified Purchase

The first time I used this drive I did notice that it got very hot. I'm not sure why but upon subsequent uses it has gotten warm but never so hot that it slowed itself down or came close to causing any internal damage to the drive. I did not update the firmware and I formatted the drive as ExFAT.

The size is amazing. I can stick this in a pocket easily. It's smaller than a credit card and my wallet is thicker than this thing. It comes with a USB 3 to USB-C cable and a USB-C to USB-C cable. So you'd think if you have a USB-C capable computer you'd use it and I almost always do but there are times when I have both my USB-C ports taken up so I'll use a USB-C hub to connect this drive with my other external devices. I only do this in cases where speed is not as important and I can afford USB 3 speeds. Usually this is when I'm backing up the work I'm doing on the T7 to another external HDD that is only capable of USB 3 speeds. There's no benefit to be had when you're transferring files to or from a USB 3 drive and a USB-C drive. You're limited to the slowest link in your chain. Now, when I do music production I make sure to keep a USB-C port free for this drive and the speeds are so fast that it's as if I'm working off my internal SSD. Almost no noticeable difference in speed at all.

I use this drive with my M1 MacBook Pro for music production. I keep my Logic Pro sound library, all my logic sessions, and my own personal sample library on this drive. I connect over USB-C and the drive is more than fast enough to do music production directly off of it without having to transfer anything to my internal storage. All of my music production is now done directly off this drive and the only thing running off internal storage is my DAW itself. Audio and video production takes a ton of storage space so having a drive like this that's fast enough to run audio and video production from is a lifesaver. I no longer have to worry about how many samples or libraries I want to install and I can just buy a bigger T7 if I ever run out of room on this one. Generally, I will move finished sessions to a regular USB 3.0 HDD for archiving and this SSD is more for working directly from.

There is one time when the drive can be just a bit slow. There is no lag time whatsoever when recording or loading files. The only time I see a lag is when saving a Logic project session file. I'll get a spinning beachball for like half a second. It's not a big deal at all but I know that if I was using internal storage it wouldn't do that. This slows me down by only half a second every hour. It's not even worth mentioning but I guess I am just to be thorough. I mean, this thing is fast as hell but in the end it is still an external drive and technically it's going to be just slightly slower than your internal drive.

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Yetanotherjen

Great security

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2023

Color: BlueCapacity: 2 TBVerified Purchase

I’m not the most tech savvy and wanted backup on an external drive for graphics heavy work and photos. I remember the challenge of making my last external drive compatible and especially deleting old files, so I was a little anxious trying to find a solution.

In case it helps someone else, I work primarily on an iPad Pro in a design program (Affinity) and needed a backup storage solution besides the Cloud. I didn’t really want a second cloud solution to be backup and can’t use an external drive with the iPad. I also have a MacBook, which has massive storage, but can’t be backed up to ICloud, while the ipad can backup to iCloud. My workaround for immediate file saving is to create shared files which are stored on iCloud (I call them Desktop) on the ipad. Desktop is stored on the hard drive of the MacBook and gets updated via ICloud device sharing even though I can’t initiate an iCloud backup from the MacBook.
Inside Desktop I have labeled files as usual and a parent file for graphic design from the Ipad, broken down into 100+ named project files and sub files. Whenever I save from the ipad, I save to Desktop (in iCloud) and then choose the appropriate file within Desktop to save. This way I have the folders on the hard drive of the MacBook as interim backup, and am working around not having iCloud backup storage available when I’m on the MacBook. The T7 comes in as secure and portable physical data storage.

The T7 drive is the hard copy backup of the files shared between the iPad and MacBook, I think necessary in case of some dreadful software issue, fire, or other unanticipated loss of access. I plan to have more than one as soon as I can afford it, to rotate.

Again hopefully this may help someone like me who spent some solid hours figuring out a better way to secure my data and workaround the Mac user experience.

Since I am wanted to do manual backups I needed the process to be easy so I wouldn’t avoid doing them, for obvious reasons. Though we don’t need to get into it here I don’t want to use Time Machine on my Mac to back up the disk. So I had to figure out something else.

The T7 is great, easy to use, no time at all to install, self explanatory pretty much. I dragged folders full of work from the desktop (yes I like to see them, don’t judge) to backup. The initial backup was very quick and painless, most files were a few seconds. The graphics heavy files perhaps took about 10 minutes? These are massive, not a problem, and may have been quicker than this, I expected it to take more time. (My last iCloud backup was over 13 hours of anxiety - I kid you not and have since deleted almost all the working files from the drawing app after saving them in Desktop so they happen more quickly now, but still, I thought this was a daylong project).

I experimented with dragging an old file to the trash from the T7 disk pane, and it worked as expected. I had to read online about how to go about copying my photos library (Mac) to disk, but it wasn’t hard. I have over 40,000 images, and it took about 20 minutes as I recall, if longer probably max 25. I tested the backup by remaining in the open pane and opening the photo files, which worked. Amazingly all this data barely touches the capacity of the drive, maybe 10% or less of a TB? Minuscule, anyway. 2 TB is overkill for me, especially since old files can easily be deleted.
(This may be different for a user in Time Machine because it keeps multiple versions of your backups, and maybe more settings etc. which can take up a lot of space?- not tech savvy, as I said, but I had trouble with my older system and Time Machine and being unable to delete backups which rendered my backup disk unusable, and I didn’t want to deal with this again even though it’s less convenient to do it manually).

I think the T7 drive will fail before I need more space, which is a great problem to have. I’m planning to get another disk (with less storage) and use it as a failsafe backup- ideally storing it in a safe or out of the house just in case, and keeping a rotation to protect against loss.

On the critical end, I’d love it and think it would be much safer for data if the user pane of the T7 was visibly different from the one on my desktop. It’s the same color, font, everything, as my desktop window (maybe that’s just how these things work?), which makes me triple check when I’m deleting or updating. Don’t do this on a Friday night after an adult beverage….

I’d also love it if there was a simple tutorial available when you opened the disk up, just for ease of first use, a how to (experimented with a throwaway file deleting because it wasn’t obvious that dragging files to the trash would work) for most, and as a reminder for others. I hesitate getting one for my parents because of this. But I’m happy and will buy another, looking forward to the peace of mind it gives me.

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D. J. Hanson

Will now display in Windows 10 File Explorer (updated)

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024

Color: Titan GrayCapacity: 2 TBVerified Purchase

Update: I tried using the hard drive with another (Win 11) computer, and it worked fine. I then rebooted my original Win 10 machine (go figure), and now it works with it as well.

Still, it would help if there were instructions, rather than just a thick book of legal admonishments in just about every language on earth, just to be sure one is doing it right. There are three executable files that can be seen on the drive, one for Windows, one for Mac, and one for Linux, yet there is no explanation why those are there, and it turned out all I needed to do is plug it in. It was also puzzling why my other USB drives worked fine originally on my Win 10 machine before I rebooted it , but the Samsung didn't.

Original review: I plugged the drive into my computer, which runs Windows 10. Usually with an external drive, it will show up in Windows File Explorer, but this one doesn't. I also tried a 500 MB drive (same Samsung model), but I get the same result. The light on the drive gets lit when I plug it in, but I have no way to access it.

On top of that, there are no instructions included, so if there's some extra step I need to take, I have no idea what it is.

I'll leave this open, so that if I can get it to work, I'll update my review; however, for now, both new Samsung SSD T7 drives are dead in the water.

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