{"id":13882,"date":"2020-05-21T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2563097"},"modified":"2020-05-21T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:20:00","slug":"samsung-improves-read-write-speeds-in-its-biz-card-sized-ssds-with-the-new-t7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/21\/samsung-improves-read-write-speeds-in-its-biz-card-sized-ssds-with-the-new-t7\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung improves read\/write speeds in its biz-card-sized SSDs with the new T7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/T7_Lifestyle_Blue-1440x944.jpg\" width=\"776\" height=\"509\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/T7_Lifestyle_Red-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"...and red.\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/T7_Work_Red-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Samsung says it works with Android tablets. (Samsung doesn&#039;t say so, but it works with the iPad Pro, too.)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/T7_Lifestyle_Blue-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Samsung T7 is available in blue...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Samsung&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsungs-t7-portable-ssd-now-available\/\">has announced<\/a>&nbsp;availability of its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2z6yxZh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T7 external USB-C solid-state hard drive<\/a>, starting at $110. Like the previous drives in this line, it&#8217;s business-card-sized (except in thickness) and relatively fast.<\/p>\n<p>The T7 is available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB configurations, and it&#8217;s also available in three colors: red, blue, and gray. Packaged inside is a USB-C-to-USB-A cable, so it should be simple enough to connect to legacy ports. It also comes with a USB-C to USB-C cable for users of modern Ultrabooks, MacBooks, and the like. The drive uses the&nbsp;USB 3.2 Gen 2 standard.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s exciting here is that Samsung claims this drive can achieve a&nbsp;read speed of 1050MB\/s and a write speed of 1000MB\/s&mdash;significantly faster than its predecessor, the T5.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pullbox sidebar story-sidebar right\">\n<div class=\"story-sidebar-part\">\n<div class=\"story-sidebar-part-content\">\n<h3>FURTHER READING<\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"recommendation-further-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/07\/guidemaster-ars-tested-and-found-the-best-usb-c-accessories-you-can-get-now\/\">Guidemaster: Ars tested and found the best USB-C accessories you can get now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Samsung also says the drive is compatible with macOS, Windows, and Android, and that it offers&nbsp;&#8220;password-protected AES 256-bit hardware data encryption.&#8221; The company doesn&#8217;t specifically name iPadOS support, but we wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see it. The T7 would probably work with game consoles and other OSes, too; the password locking (which is optional) is probably what requires the supported OSes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This product was initially announced at CES in January, and back around that time, Samsung already started selling a variant of this called the T7 Touch that had a fingerprint reader that could be used to lock the drive. This new, more standard option is a little bit cheaper, though. Most people don&#8217;t need that touch lock feature.<\/p>\n<p>The previous drives in this product line have often been named by buyers&#8217; guides and reviewers as top picks in this category of external drives. It&#8217;s niche, but the performance and small size are there for users who need or want them. Samsung also says it has improved on the previous models by using &#8220;a solid aluminum case that&rsquo;s shock resistant from drops up to 2 meters,&#8221; though that sounds pretty similar to what the T5 offered to us.<\/p>\n<p>The 500GB drive costs $110, 1TB is $200, and it&#8217;ll cost you $370 to get 2TB. It&#8217;s available today, but stock has been intermittent at various online stores, and some of those carrying it have been selling it at a slightly higher starting price of $120.<\/p>\n<p><em>Listing image by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Samsung<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2z6yxZh\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2z6yxZh<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>SAMUEL AXON<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/artificial-intelligence-newswire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Artificial Intelligence Newswire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>SAMUEL AXON<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung&nbsp;has announced&nbsp;availability of its&nbsp;T7 external USB-C solid-state hard drive, starting at $110. Like the previous drives in this line, it&rsquo;s business-card-sized (except in thickness) and relatively fast. The T7 is available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB configurations, and it&rsquo;s also available in three colors: red, blue, and gray. Packaged inside is a USB-C-to-USB-A cable, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/05\/21\/samsung-improves-read-write-speeds-in-its-biz-card-sized-ssds-with-the-new-t7\/\">Continue reading <span>Samsung improves read\/write speeds in its biz-card-sized SSDs with the new T7<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/21\/samsung-improves-read-write-speeds-in-its-biz-card-sized-ssds-with-the-new-t7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-newswire","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Samsung improves read\/write speeds in its biz-card-sized SSDs with the new T7 - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/21\/samsung-improves-read-write-speeds-in-its-biz-card-sized-ssds-with-the-new-t7\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Samsung improves read\/write speeds in its biz-card-sized SSDs with the new T7 - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Samsung&nbsp;has announced&nbsp;availability of its&nbsp;T7 external USB-C solid-state hard drive, starting at $110. 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