Samsung Portable SSD T1 Review

by Ganesh T S on 1/20/2015 10:00 AM EST
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  • galfert - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    No TRIM....then no thanks. I'll keep my Corsair Voyager GTX for now.
  • tipoo - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    Do any drives do TRIM over USB 3?
  • tipoo - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    Ah, there it is, there's at least one device that does but most don't.
  • Wwhat - Sunday, February 8, 2015 - link

    Since internally it's just a slotted SSD module you could theoretically open the case, unplug it and stick it in your computer and trim it then.
  • Samus - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    The thing is...the write performance of the Voyager GTX is so poor in comparison to the Samsung T1, that even with TRIM support, it's slower at peak (after TRIM) than the Samsung is at its lowest point of consistency. Factor in the Voyager doesn't come in 1TB configuration and costs more per GB, you'd be crazy to buy the Voyager GTX over this.
  • akdj - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    I'm with ya Samus. Samsung is 'well' into it's design and reliability when it comes to flash, NAND, PCIe and SSD storage solutions. You'll be looking at a dime a GB by the time your T1 begins to bum out (due to lack of TRIM/S.M.A.R.T support over USB). Unless you're 'truly' using After Effects or manipulating massive RAW PS files and layers all day, every day I'm not sure it's even a concern anymore. Especially in the consumer segment.
    Servers and enterprise with massive user volume this may not be the perfect choice. For most, wow. A TB with these speeds and performance/heat & (lack of) throttling IMHO is a Home Run!
    I've been using a 2012 15" rMBP daily, since launch with a 768GB, pre PCIe SSD. It's (still) mind numbingly quick using it's internal and external Lacie TBolt SSD. Not a single issue with the laptop or external 500GB SSD after 30 months and ten, respectively. Never a glitch
    I'm sold. Will Thunderbolt allow for TRIM support?
    Has Samsung built anything with Thunderbolt connectivity yet?
    Thanks for the review.
    J
  • Kutark - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    In my limited knowledge, who would really need that type of speed/storage? I'm guessing for most people, even in the IT field, a 64gb or 128gb high speed USB drive is going to be more than fast enough / sufficient space. The only place i could see this being of high need would be professional photographers? I'm sure there's probably some situations out there i'm not aware of, so please correct me if i'm wrong.

    Basically what i'm saying is for a person who has capacity needs, a regular portable is going to be massively cheaper. For a person who has speed needs, most of the high speed USB drives are very cost effective and have good speeds vs cost. So, i'm wondering how big of a subset of people need both a lot of capacity AND a lot of speed that can justify the cost of this beast.
  • Laststop311 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    Not just photographers. If you are a video editor and want to have portability of your raw files on a drive 1TB should be enough space for a fairly long video and if they edit insane amounts of video they can easily buy more of them. This read transfer speed is super important for a video editor to save a ton of time transferring huge 500GB files. Also there really isn't much other choice for 1TB of space and raw uncompressed HD video needs a huge amount of space and because it's so large every drop of speed they can get the need.
  • tipoo - Friday, January 30, 2015 - link

    I sometimes have to use multiple VMs off a single external drive, SSD speeds (even across USB 3) would be a godsend for that.
  • designerfx - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    Not just that, but guaranteed heatdeath with time. Most consumer electronics aside from obvious exceptions are not built for operations at 75c, and their throttling simply confirms it. Adding vents to the "portable ssd" won't fix the fact that it's being put in an enclosure.
  • ArsonW - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    SSDs don't get very hot so this is a non-issue.
  • Laststop311 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    ssd's only pull like 5 watts at peak and most of the time when in use is around the 3 watt range. Thats very little wattage to produce heat. I don't think overheating is a concern. The test showed no throttling.
  • Laststop311 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    Also the only reason this ssd went up to 75C is because they hit it with a non stop 15 minutes of heavy writes and reads. The majority of the SSD's usage will not be that heavy so it's not like its going to be running at 75 everytime you use it. Stays at 60 and below for the first 5 minutes of putting it on 100% load
  • extide - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    75c is nothing. 'Commercial heat grade" which is basically the lowest heat grade goes up to 85c, and industrial grades can be specced as high as 125c.
  • tipoo - Friday, January 30, 2015 - link

    I doubt even heavy real world use would see that, as there would be idle times, if even for fractions of a second. This was very much a worst case test, with continuous IO with no breaks which the drive is unlikely to see. Anyways, CPUs can hit 105 degrees Celsius now before their shutoff point I think, 75 doesn't even seem that bad for this, I'll give Sammy the benefit of the doubt and assume the chip was rated high enough that the max temp isn't an issue.
  • Laststop311 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    so any of those external drives you get, even if they had trim they still will be slower than this samsung. This drive is now king of external usb 3.0 drives. It's the fastest external usb 3.0 drive in any possible scenario. Your voyager gtx will get beat by this drive even on this drives worse day vs voyager gtx's best day.
  • slillo - Thursday, January 22, 2015 - link

    Nice write up.
  • Gigaplex - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    "After installation, the 128 MB partition disappeared, and the 1 TB volume was made visible. The Samsung SSD program / daemon continues to run in the background and allows for altering the security option (encryption) without reformatting the partition"

    Great, a portable drive that doesn't sound like it can be ported to Apple or Linux systems, and may have portability issues between different Windows systems if it's encrypted.

    You also mention several times how this drive would be good for Windows To Go. Did you test it? Windows To Go has very strict requirements on what types of drives it will work with. There are only a select few drives on the market that have been validated to work with it.
  • mczak - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    Well there's a Mac installer. I think if you disable encryption it will work everywhere. Though I guess to run it with linux you'd need to first set it up using either windows or osx, which isn't great (imho would be much better to just ship that as an ordinary drive where you can optionally install whatever magic software...).
  • AJSB - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    I believe ,but i'm not 100% sure, that you can do it with Gparted "Live CD" in a USB Pen.
    It should find any hidden partitions and delete them or simply create a new partition table that will erase everything.

    PS: My personnal experience with HDDs and USB Flash Pens....dunno about SSDs.
  • mczak - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    If it's just a broken partition table, this should indeed work just fine. It isn't obvious from the article though how this actually works - if the drive needs some special commands to be sent or anything like that this won't do.
  • bill.rookard - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    I'm a bit curious as to the premium price. One wasn't listed, but at .60/GB that comes to around $600 USD for a 1TB drive. Perhaps it's the format itself, but just simply looking on Newegg shows:

    1) 850 EVO VNAND 1TB 2.5" drive at around $475 USD
    2) USB 3.0 2.5" drive enclosure at around $10 USD

    That would get us virtually the same performance (if not identical performance) to the T1 at albeit a slightly larger physical size. My question is how many people consider the slightly smaller physical footprint worth the 15-20% increase in price?
  • Flunk - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    A custom enclosure like this costs more to produce. There is no way that they could sell it for only $10 over the bare drive. Some people prefer to buy pre-assembled drive units and because of that there is a bit of a premium. So yes, there are definitely buyers out there for this.
  • bill.rookard - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    I would certainly agree about the custom enclosure being a little more expensive than your typical 2.5" drive China-built enclosure, but the other thing to remember is that the prices I quoted are also -retail- prices currently available.

    I'm sure that Newegg isn't paying Samsung $475 for that drive that they're turning around on their site (take off 5-10% for markup and an extra 20% for a 'premium' drive like the 850 pro) and it's probably closer to $350 at wholesale costs. At $350 for wholesale prices, that means the drive itself is probably close to $125-$130 for Samsung to produce.

    The drives themselves are very similar in parts (all have controllers, pcb's, NAND chips, etc) and with the ONLY differentiation being the case itself, it's interesting that this drive would retail for more than your average mid-spec'd AMD -system-. While I'm all for being up on the latest technology, IMHO this drive needs to come down on price before people would probably even consider buying it.
  • jhoff80 - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    I think a more fair comparison would be to an mSATA drive, which is closer to the size of this. Even still, the 1TB 840 mSATA drive is under $500 as well.
  • baii9 - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    And with a Mata/2.5 drive, you can always pop it out to trim if it comes down to it, 500+gb data are not easy to move around for formatting the drive
  • AJSB - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    The real problem here is DATA RETENTION.
    As soon as drive is disconnected, the NAND cells start to loose charge and they loose much much faster than a HDD...how much time till this drive "implodes" ?
  • akdj - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    Seriously? First I've heard of an SSD 'implod(es)ing'???
    NAND is pretty reliable. It's been in most smart phones for a while and I've yet to see an Android or iPhone implode. That said, I've yet to own a Windows phone. Hmmm
  • andychow - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    According to JEDEC spec the P/E cycle rating is with one-year data retention. So after 6000 P/E cycles the data will still be good for 1 year while the SSD is disconnected.

    On a drive with just a few P/E cycles, it's likely to be over 10 years of data retention.

    This isn't regular tlc nand, this is 32-layer tlc v-nand on a 40nm process.

    Regular HDD suffer from kinetic shock and vibrations. This does not.
  • AJSB - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    That JEDEC DATA refers to what kind of NAND ?
    SLC, MLC , TLC or V-NAND ?...and with witch lithography ?

    As NAND cells go down in size, they got worse in DATA retention....i heard that 15nm will last only weeks removed from a PC (this is not same as PC switched off, because even when switched off, a SSD is still working at low level of energy doing its thing to keep cells charged).

    Granted, this uses 40nm and in 3D witch makes it much much more reliable...i read a good article about this V-NAND from SAMSUNG and it's very well designed in its cell structure.

    As for HDDs, one thing is 3.5" HDDs another is 2.5" HDDs...2.5"s are designed for Notebooks with special sensors,etc., granted, some more than others, and they can stand a LOT of abuse...i had a Toshiba Notebook long ago and was working w/ it as battery was charging, suddenly i needed to go away and forgot cable of AC/DC brick and stumble on it...the Tosh fled away in the air and hard land in hard floor face done....all this as HDD was working in video editing !

    I thought "it's done"...no it wasn't (well, the hinges of LCD didn't like the hard fall) !
    The HDD not only wasn't damaged but it didn't lost/corrupt DATA !

    Believe me or not...this happened more than once.

    Because of this i trust a LOT in 2.5" HDDs of good brands.

  • Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    It refers to ALL kinds of NAND. For NAND that is used in client applications, the spec states that the data retention must be one year after the rated P/E cycle count has been reached. For enterprise applications, that time is three months. Whether it's SLC, MLC or TLC it doesn't matter -- they are all rated based on the same rules.

    What you have heard about 15nm is incorrect. Even 15nm TLC will adhere the same JEDEC specifications. What it may have is lower P/E cycle count in order to achieve 1-year data retention, but otherwise it's no different.

    NAND is non-volatile, which means that it will retail its charge even without power. The charge is stored in a floating gate (or in a charge trap in V-NAND's case) that is surrounded by insulators, which will keep the charge in the FG even when power is off.
  • AJSB - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    You say that for client applications is 1 year of DATA retention but for enterprise applications is only 3 months ?!?
    Shouldn't be the other way around ?!?
  • AJSB - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    OK, i just read some charts of this doc in PDF:

    http://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/Alvin_Cox...

    ...and CLEARLY DATA RETENTION depends a lot of at what temperature SSD works and at what temperature is SSD off....DATA retention can be as bad as ONE Week.

    Granted, that is a worse case scenario, but i won't trust anything above 6 months ,,,check page 27.

    Then, we have to ask ourselves, after reconnect drive in that time frame, how much time it takes for build-in controller recover cells charge and any power loss during that cells recover won't mess up the process.
  • ArsonW - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    "...DATA retention can be as bad as ONE Week"

    Hey everyone, we have a mechanical HDD fanboy overhere! He tripped on his laptop cord and it still works...SSDs must be BAD!
  • Kristian Vättö - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    Sure, but the data retention of a hard drive isn't any better if you throw it into a furnace. 55°C isn't a realistic room temperature in any case, even 30°C is higher than what most people prefer (might be regional differences, but at least here in Finland ~23°C is pretty average).

    Even then, that is the data retention AFTER the rated P/E cycle count has been reached. In the case of TLC V-NAND, that's 2,000 cycles. That works out to be 512,000GiB of writes for the smallest 250GB model, which translates to 280.5GiB of writes per every single day for five years. Once again, not a very realistic scenario.
  • AJSB - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    Yes, at 55C nothing survives for long, be it SSDs or HDDs.
    Its also unrealistic, this is why i talked about 6 months.

    BTW, here in Summer we go easily to 40C at shadow, that's why my concern.

    For HDDs there is a program that refreshes magnetism in all sectors in some hours, such a thing is not as simple/possible in a SSD, however, i believe that Samsung 850 series should be one of the most reliable SSDs in the market because the way the cells are designed and its lithography gone back up to 40nm.
  • MikhailT - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    You might want to go back to read your "sources" or read the actual specs. I believe you are truly confused as to what you're talking about and must be thinking of something else.
  • 2kfire - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    My laptop has an SSD in it. I regularly throw it on the couch, dinner table, bed, floor, wherever, while it's running and I've never, EVER though "uh-oh, it's done!". Why? Because no moving parts, so nothing to "done". The laptop is an 8540 Elitebook, so nothing to "done" there either. :)

    I bumped a bare 2.5" mechanical while cloning an SSD to it one time. It moved maybe 2" and landed on my desk (I had it on top of a 3.5" HDD). It got the click of death, so I turned it into a fridge magnet.
  • AJSB - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    Bumping a bare 2.5" is not the same as bumping one inside a notebook....the impact is bigger and like i said, not all drives are the same, it all depends of quantity, quality and type of sensors that a particular drive uses, like i said , not all drives are the same.

    In 20 years i didn't had a HDD failure...just like i didn't had a USB Flash Pen Failure...SD cards OTOH...i prefer not tell my horror stories with those cards :(
  • 2kfire - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    Believe me, I've bumped bare SSDs too. Again, I don't care with them because there's nothing to go wrong. It's barely worth mentioning, but at the same time the mechanical dropped 2" and died, while trying to catch it I knocked the SSD I was cloning off my desk and it hit the wall, still hanging off the cable. Nothing happened to it... The wall got a small nick.

    Point is, mechanicals have spinning disks and floating heads that are actually quite delicate. SSDs have chips that are soldered on. They're not nearly as delicate.
  • 2kfire - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    Also, I was comparing my laptop experience to yours, in that you were worried your drive was dead, whereas I don't give it a 2nd thought.

    The HDD bump story was a bonus ;)
  • Laststop311 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    This doesn't really make sense as a valid concern. If you need a drive to store data away but never have to access it so you are never connecting it to power for many years you wouldn't buy a pricey fast drive like this since speed is not important at all for data that is just going to be archived and not used. If you need reliable data retention in a pretty economic option just go with the 25GB m discs that use a rock layer to record data. Resistant to extreme light temp and humidity and lasts 1000 years.
  • baii9 - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    be wary that you may need a recent good USB 3.0 chip set with enough pcie lane to take advantage of the drive's adveristed speed. Some usb 3.0 saturated at 200-300MB/s
  • baii9 - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    Some even stop at somewhere lower than 200.
  • Laststop311 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    As long as you are using a native usb 3.0 lane directly off the chipset and not one off a controller you will have the full speed.
  • baii9 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    ivy hasewell and broadwell only then, or sb on a ivy board+ amd~

    That's not alot of machine.
  • xilience - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    Would it be possible to include a reference external HDD in these charts (and a reference HDD in all SSD charts) to compare to what 95% of people currently have? While the Samsung T1 seems to be twice the speed of, say, the Corsair GTX, it'd be nice to see just how much faster those options are versus a standard external HDD.
  • akdj - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    Black Magic, CrystalMark... & plenty of 'free/shareware' is easily located, downloaded and extremely light weight. You're welcome to run your own tests using the same benches the site uses. Some, like 64bit GeekBench support require a couple bucks but you don't 'need' it to measure the performance of yiur current rig. Plenty of similar or identical CPU and GPU matches to yours are available to compare on the different sites for benchmarks
    These types of speeds on a 3.5" HDD would require drives in RAID, proper enclosure, 7200 RPM drives with 'power' and more than just a pair;). Even then I'm not sure you'd be able to achieve these speed at twice, even three times the cost...in dollars. In capacity, the winner is still obvious but the prices have dropped significantly in the past 24-36 months. And many vendors are switching. This size, a TB, with bus power is an absolute beast. And at twice the capacity of my Lacie Rugged TBolt 500GB SSD, it's a bargain.
  • Laststop311 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    There are tons of benchmarks for external hard drives easily found. You are lucky to even hit 100MB/sec reads off a regular HDD and it's usually below that for the mass majority of externals as they are usually 5400 rpm low power models.
  • jasaero - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    Is anyone making a more portable mSATA USB 3.0 enclosure? Or why not a 4 slot mSATA battery powered pocket NAS!! So many products one could do with these tiny flash memory formats and nobody is doing them.
  • haukionkannel - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    It would be very nice to see a comparison of external USB3 storage and different SSD disks to see if there is difference how well SSD will work without trim and is there is difference between controllers etc. It would be also nice to have an article for "dummies" how over provisioning affect in this kind of situation. I am also quite sure that not everyone knows how to change over provisioning with their SSD drives and how does it affect to ssd behavior.

    As it has been said you can get good quality USB3 enclosure and ssd for much less than there ready made versions. Comparison would be nice!
  • neillanz - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    What I wonder about the most is if Samsung took care of unexpected power loss problem and if so, then how. The problem I always have while using an SSD with a SATA to USB bridge is that every time I disconnect it, the unexpected power loss count rises. Perhaps know with the UASP, it's possible to send a shutdown command to the drive itself.
  • Laststop311 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    thats what the little icon in the tray is for. You right click it and select eject usb drive and then a bubble pops up and says it is now safe to disconnect your usb drive. You really didn't know that?
  • neillanz - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    Of course I know about the the Safe Removal option, but so far it never helped when unplugging an SSD. No matter what the unexpected power loss count would grow.
  • digiguy - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    I don't think this drive offers the same comfort of the GTX 256 or Sandisk extreme (I own both) on a very portable device, such as my Surface pro 3 or small ultrabooks. I wouldn't trust moving around with the device and this thing hanging. Also it would be interesting to know how much power this drive drains. According to my tests, the 2 pen drives I mentioned take very little power, while a 2.5" SSD in a USB 3.0 enclosure (I have several of both) takes much more power, much closer to a HDD. I have used a power meter, but even without that I can see that for instance with the Surface I can write between the 2 pen drives in an unpowered hub, and still have a mouse and something else attached, but I generally cannot do it between an external SSD and a pen (sometimes it works but the speed goes down), let alone 2 external SSDs. I have tested several unpowered hub, which themselves take some power, some more than others... Hopefully there will be some testing of the power consumption.
  • Laststop311 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    You have to normalize the power consumption for the greater performance. Meaning since its faster it finishes the transfer faster and goes back into idle faster. So you need to take into account the amount of power used from transfer start to transfer finish. The other drives may use less power but they are transferring for a longer amount of time and that can easily bring its amount of battery power used close to equal.
  • digiguy - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    Normalize the power consumption for greater performance? I suppose you are comparing an external SSD with the pen drive I mentioned, as SSDs are actually much faster than HHD while consuming less.... As for pen vs SSD, considering the GTX, if we talk about read speed, they are pretty close.... I have several SSDs, among them Crucial MX100, Sandisk Extreme pro and the GTX is close and goes up to the limit of the USB 3.0 bandwith. In terms of write spead, there is a clear gap, but it's well known that write speed and the size of a pen drive don't go well together. Still, compared to "standard" USB 3.0 pen drives, these 2 I mentioned are amazing. The point I was making however was not about battery life, but about the capacity of a small laptop/ultrabook/convertible (as these drives are meant to be used mainly on the go) to power these drives, including moving data directly from one to the other. With the pen drives (even the fastest) you can do that, as their power consumption is a fraction of even that of an external SSD, let alone an HDD. So this is one of the strengths of such drives.
  • sonicmerlin - Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - link

    Augh I want someone to release a 20 nm V-NAND SSD that blows away the HDD market's $/GB values. When will this happen?
  • Laststop311 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    Then you lose the benefits of 40nm which are numerous. Also while you can fit more nand dies per wafer with 20nm the process of making each wafer of dies is more expensive so if the increased amount of dies doesn't offset or better the increased cost of 20nm then it's actually cheaper for them to be at 40nm. You also have to take account of defect rates. If the defect rates of 20nm are a certain percentage higher than 40nm that also makes it hard for the increased amount of dies on 20nm to be enough of a bonus to make it cheaper.
  • AJSB - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    Please NO !
    20nm will bring back more problems than benefits, if i ever considered a SSD is precisely the 850 EVO because the type of NAND and be 40nm.

    What happens now is that Samsung is charging a premium for be the only ones with this type of NAND, AFAIK.

    When there will be more players doing it, prices will fall, not to mention that this type of NAND is still in the begin of production...as Samsung increases production, prices will possibly decrease with or without more OEMs doing this type of NAND.
  • Laststop311 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    So this is a 450 dollar 1tb 850 evo in an external enclosure and a sata to usb chip and interface. So they are trying to say a sata to usb 3.0 bridge and a little enclosure and a tiny usb cable warrants raising the price 150 dollars. They need to cut that in half. 75 dollars extra for those things is more than fair for everyone.
  • baii9 - Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - link

    it looks pretty.
  • JohnTheSwed - Friday, January 30, 2015 - link

    Something is serious wrong with this test. First I tried with Black Magic Speed test, it said over 400 MB/s write and 432 MB/s read. I have a Macbook Pro Retina 2014. Anyways, you might say that synthetic soo I tried moving files to the external drive, guess what. 18,7 GB of real files took less than 1 minute to move AND I looked in the activity monitor and it said over 400 MB/s. That was real moving files, I can prove it if I have to. Why I get so much better speeds IRL? I don't know.
  • tlaile - Saturday, January 31, 2015 - link

    Since this is an external SSD I wondered how many watts it uses when writing to the drive. A normal USB port is one amp at 5 volts, for 5 watts. Some tablets only output half of that. I bought a Crucial M500 and an external USB 3 enclosure to use with a Surface Pro 2. The SSD needs over 3 watts to write and the enclosure uses enough excess that I could only read from the drive unless I use a powered hub.
    Anandtech reviews always do power consumption tests on internal SSD drives. I assume the reason that the USB external SSD's don't get the same testing is that there is not an easy testing rig to use. However, these drives are either somehow drawing less than 5 watts ever, or they need to be advertised as not compatible with some portable devices. Yes I know that some newer notebook computers can deliver more than one amp on some of their USB ports, but there are still many new devices especially among the well reviewed ultraportables that are limited to 5 watts or even 2.5watts per port. Or am I mistaken.
  • Ethos Evoss - Saturday, February 7, 2015 - link

    why no usb 3.1 ?
  • jondhall - Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - link

    I played with Trimcheck and made win8.1 optimise the disk. Trimcheck said trim was working. Using the drive as a Windows boot disk for my macbook and it really good. Just hope the longevity is there, if it is I will be buying more of these.
  • SSDFGD - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

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    We are conducting a Digital Storage Study in New York City, NY between August 27th-August 29th and are looking for people who live in or around the NY Metro area to participate. Currently we need owners of a Samsung Portable T1 SSD.

    It will be a 2 hour Focus Group Discussion and if you take part we will compensate you for your time. A focus group discussion is where we invite a group of people to talk about their experiences with a certain product. We would like to speak to you to find out how we can improve upon our products. However, there are a few criteria that you must meet to take part:

    • Owner and user of a Samsung Portable T1 SSD,
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