Inside, you’ll find a SN550E, a PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe drive that pairs an ASMedia ASM2362 bridge with a SanDisk 20-82-10023 controller and SanDisk BiCS 4 96L 3D TLC flash memory. You can pick up three different capacities (500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB) in four different colors (blue, red, champagne gold, and gray silver). We were just as impressed with its sleek, ridged metal design, which improves grip while reducing the chance of causing damage to anything else thanks to its curvy, pebblesque shape. At 46g, measuring 10 x 5.5 x 0.9cm, this is an impressively slim-line footprint. It was one of the first things we noticed about the drive.
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Read our full Samsung Portable SSD T5 reviewĪ refresh to Western Digital’s much-loved mainstream external SSD, the WD My Passport is one of the best portable SSDs for thin and lightweight design. Otherwise, the Samsung T5 is a great all-rounder SSD with fast transfer rates for moving or carrying large amounts of data. If you already have a T3, you can doubtless stick with it for the time being. If you’re not fussed about those performance gains, the Samsung T3 should be more than enough, and at a cheaper price now, too.
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It's also backwards compatible with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 if your PC doesn't have USB Type-C. It comes with a 10Gbps USB 3.1 Type-C Gen 2, making it capable of delivering twice the maximum theoretical transfer rate of its predecessors. There’s a fast USB Type-C connection that ekes out every last drop of performance from the solid-state drive inside. If you’re looking for a true portable, this one is proof at last, that an external drive can be smaller than a high-powered power bank or a stack of credit cards.īuilding on the brilliant design and performance of its predecessor, the Samsung T3, the T5 does bring performance gains. “A masterclass in portable storage” is how we described this speedy drive after our time. Samsung’s brilliant line-up of portable SSDs continues with the excellent Samsung Portable SSD T5. Again, that's down to the fact that mechanical parts fail more often than electronics. ✅ 3-year warranty Lexar offers a three-year warranty on its SSD which is 3x what the likes of Seagate and WD offer for portable hard disk drives. For once, you can easily slide it in your rear jeans pocket. ✅ Smaller The SL200 is smaller than any 2.5-inch hard drive we've seen and by extension, smaller than any portable hard disk drives as well. It should survive a drop on a hard surface from a few feet unscathed. ✅ Sturdier Because there's no moving parts, the SL200 is a bit more ruggedized than any external consumer hard drives. ✅ Works with smartphones A little-advertised feature is that most of the newer portable SSDs have a native Type-C connector that can be plugged into any recent smartphones and be used as storage for your portable device.
✅ Faster It is one of the slowest external SSDs we've ever tested but it is still 3X quicker than most portable hard disk drives. That is still far more expensive than a standard portable hard disk drive of similar capacity but let's not forget why an external SSD is a better long run solution for storing your data, files and folders. That alone means I should probably re-review the drive and add at least one star to the review.Īt $89.99, it is the cheapest 2TB portable SSD right now anywhere.
Well, fast forward almost three years and the price of the 2TB version SL200 has been slashed by a staggering 70% since it launched back in June 2021, almost a year after my review. Compared to almost everything else on the market, it lacks a clear edge and its premium pricing is not helping it at all." The Lexar SL200, I wrote back then, was an, " OK product and that’s about it. I gave a mere three star to the product I am now writing ecstatically about today. I have a confession to make - I may have been a bit too harsh on a review I wrote three years ago.
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