Today at CES 2015, Samsung unveiled the Samsung Portable SSD T1 USB3 SSD, a portable solid state drive (SSD). The SSD is targeted at business travellers, creative professionals and content creators who need secure local storage that they can take on-the-go and use to quickly transfer large amounts of data.
Available in 250 gigabyte (GB), 500GB and 1 terabyte (TB) storage capacities, the Portable SSD T1 will launch globally in 15 countries across the United States, European and Asian markets later this month, including the UK.
Samsung states the following about the drive in its press release:
“The Portable SSD T1 allows people to store their entire digital portfolio locally in one place, take it with them anywhere and have blazing fast access to their data, all without worrying about reliability or security,” said Unsoo Kim, Senior Vice President of Branded Product Marketing, Memory Business at Samsung Electronics. “Our digital lives demand storage that surpasses the limits of existing options, which requires consumers to compromise, when it comes to mobility, capacity, security and performance. The Portable SSD T1 overcomes the drawbacks of alternative options on every major pain point, making it the next external storage device of choice.
Built with the same award-winning technology as Samsung’s internal SSDs, the Portable SSD T1 saves people precious time with unparalleled read/write speeds, enabling you to plug in and quickly grab your work to present to prospective clients or partners. In fact, the drive has sequential read/write speeds of up to 450 megabytes per second (MB/s) with a USB 3.0 super speed interface and random read/write speeds of up to 8,000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) and 21,000 IOPS respectively. The write speed is as responsive and fast as an internal SSD and up to 100 times faster than an external hard disk drive (HDD). Depending on the file size, the
Portable SSD T1 has a data transfer speed four times faster than an external HDD. It takes only eight seconds to transfer a 3GB movie file and 27 seconds for a 10GB movie file compared to an external HDD which takes 26 seconds and 85 seconds, respectively."
The drive will contain Samsung’s proprietary 3D Vertical NAND (V-NAND) technology and I hope to be able to bring you a full review once I can get my hands on a review sample.
The Samsung Portable SSD T1 will work with both Windows and Mac PCs, and uses the exFAT file system, eliminating the hassle of having to reformat for every type of computer. The SSD T1 comes with a three-year limited warranty, and is available in capacities of 250GB, 500GB and 1TB with a starting price of £154.79 (about $236 or €197).
