Price aside, the size, performance, and security of the Samsung T1 SSD are off the charts. You can save $50 on the 1TB and 500GB models from Samsung right now, or $30 on the 250GB T1 SSD. The 500GB model ($250) or the 250GB model ($150) would probably suffice for most portable storage needs without costing more than many laptops. With a suggested retail price of $500, the 1TB Samsung T1 SSD is pretty expensive. The mSata connection combined with Samsung’s TurboWrite technology delivers incredibly fast transfer rates. It is also blazingly fast both writing and reading data. If you’re looking for a way to carry an additional 256GB, 512Gb or 1TB of data around with you, it doesn’t get any more portable than this. The Samsung T1 SSD is almost impossibly small.
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I had to actually refer to the manual for the device to figure out how you go about changing or removing the password once you’ve set it up. It took me a while to find the tools for the T1 SSD in the Systray in Windows.
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I can work around that by temporarily disabling the password security, but you should know that once you set the T1 SSD up for Windows or Mac OS X you’re more or less tied to that respective platform. I wanted to use it to transfer all of my music to a different external drive for backup purposes, but when I connected the T1 to the USB port on the external drive I was unable to access the data because the password security app couldn’t run on the proprietary storage OS. My Samsung T1 SSD is formatted to work with Windows and the security is enabled. Basically, the security is too good and makes it challenging to use with other devices. One other issue I encountered is also not much of a real complaint. The device is so small and light I sometimes forgot it was even there or had trouble finding it in my laptop bag. One “complaint” is virtually the definition of a first-world problem. I have almost zero complaints about my experience with the Samsung T1 SSD. AES 256-bit encryption will keep others from accessing your data and will also prevent you from ever accessing it without the password. If you enable encryption, make sure you don’t forget your password. When you enable the password it protects the data on the device with AES 256-bit encryption-one of the strongest encryption standards in use.
When you set the device up you can assign a unique name for the drive and enable password security. Samsung also designed the T1 SSD to be secure. The real world performance might not live up to the Samsung marketing hype, but it is still very impressive and significantly faster than any other portable storage device I’ve used. I generally saw transfer speeds more in the 200MBps to 300MBps range. Samsung claims data transfer rates of 450MB per second. The function of the Samsung T1 SSD is almost as amazing as its form. The word Samsung is imprinted in silver on top of the case and on one end there’s an mSATA port to connect the USB cable to. There is no external power connection because the T1 SSD also gets its power over the USB connection.Īside from being mind-blowingly small and light, there isn’t much to the Samsung T1 SSD. For comparison sake, the Samsung T1 SSD is only slightly larger than the remote key for my Toyota Prius, but the Prius key is thicker and weighs 40 percent more than the T1 SSD.Īdding the short mSATA to USB 3.0 cable-which is necessary for the device to actually work-effectively doubles the total weight to about two ounces. There can’t possibly be any internal components in this case and still have it weigh this little. Holding this thing in the palm of your hand, you might think it’s just an empty plastic shell. Without the USB cable attached, the T1 weighs less than an ounce. The Samsung T1 SSD is a 2.8-inch by 2.09-inch rectangle that’s just over a third of an inch tall at its thickest point. I’ve had plenty of different portable USB hard drives in a range of sizes and shapes-but this thing is ridiculously small. Right out of the box the form of this device is unbelievable.
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