2TB Samsung Portable SSD T5 - The best external drive you could get!

So I bought this 2TB Samsung Portable SSD T5 today and wasn't expecting much really as I do understand that external drives will never be anywhere near internal drives but to my surprise, this is a solid performer with 2TB of space and a form factor that's no bigger than a cellphone's battery!

Tests done while connecting the drive via the Thunderbolt port.

Real World Copy Test:



AS SSD Benchmark:



CrystalDiskMark:



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Here is the benchmark result while connecting the drive to ta regular USB rather than it's Type C connector. Still very impressive, that way I can have it connected to my Type C hub which gives me more USB ports and an SD Card slot on my Alienware Area-51m:

 

Yeah, the T5's are my new 'thumb drives' now.

 

Post deleted due to my brain fart

 

That seals the deal for me, it's about time to upgrade my external storage anyway.

 

You will love it I guarantee you! It blows everything else out of the water!

I just edited the OP, watch the video that I added. It shows something very interesting. You see, when I first got it, as I was unboxing it, I dropped the SSD from my desk straight to the floor I thought I damaged it, when I plugged it in, it worked fine. Now if you watch the video, you will understand why, it has a "shock resistant frame"!

 

They are great drives indeed, I still use my T1 500GB daily. The T5 benchmark should reflect Sata3 speeds. So your AS SSD benchmark is for your internal RAID 0, not the external T5.
The samsung X5, on the other hand, is an external NVMe drive with the accompanying speeds and price.

 

ohhhh snap!! Nice catch bro! lemme re-run the benchmark then coz I was shocked how it reached those insane speeds.

 

@Vistar Shook I updated the AS SSD Benchmark in the OP. Still very impressive for an external drive.

 

Yeah I have the 1TB version, love it. The X5 is there now now but it's really only good for thunderbolt based computers and devices as it seems non thunderbolt devices have issues with it, not to mention the price premium. I have an external nVME enclosure and have similar issues as the X5 with routers (Whereas the T5 easily hits 140 MB/s on the RAX80) and other things where writes drop to like 30-40 MB/s but works fine with computers hitting 700+ MB/s.

The T5 is better backwards compatible so its still the best choice for versatility.

 

You keep all your data on your internal drives? I always use external HDDs since my backups are quite small. You're a portable movie theater.
All that's left is, daisy chained TB3 storage bench test in RAID0.
Good performance from small drive.
Can it be used with NTFS filesystem? Or exFAT performs better?

 

NTFS performs better, plus there are many non-Windows devices don’t support exFAT ie most routers. I find exFAT more useful for MAC compatibility. So I’d personally only leave it on exFAT if you have MACs as well.

As for main and long term backups like family photos videos etc, definitely not this alone. I use a NAS, given to me free for testing originally by Netgear: Ready NAS524X (initially 4 drives in RAID 10) with snapshots and bitrot protection enabled. Then back that up to an external drive for greater redundancy.

 

Yeah, I forgot exFAT needs packages on Linux and doesn't have out of box support for PnP. I did an exFAT once on an thumb drive and it won't detect exFAT w/o exFAT FUSE package.
Even routers barely recognize FS other than NTFS and FAT32.

 

added a benchmark while having the drive connected via a USB port rather than the Type port. Check the OP.

 

Looks good.
Can you try benching on internal USB with Powershare tech? I felt it gave more peak R/W speeds than other USB3 ports.

 

Got the 1TB, just came in. Mostly just salvaging what I can from my old external, but I'm already seeing how much better it is. That was my last mechanical drive, and as happy as I am it lasted that long, good riddance.

 

How does it compare to Sandisk's Extreme Portable?

 

Been using a 2TB to backup various machines without an internal drive, over USB 3 and it's been a very good drive. No time to spend benching but it'll take a 150-200Gb backup in minutes with Acronis.

 

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I still use 4tb 2.5" platters and 8tb 3.5' platters.

Impressive 450 write speed. Still not tempted by it. I am more into the 8tb 3.5" .I want to get another one.

 

You're still doing well on cost/GB at that size.

 

I so want 8tb 2.5" drives.
The 4TB ones came out like 3-4 years ago.

 

I wish we can have such capacities but I highly doubt it will come anytime soon.

 

5100 5200 eco is 2.5" sata ssd upwards capacity of 7.68TB sometimes you see them on ebay for $1500 or less if you're lucky. surely with QLC replacing TLC we'll see those much cheaper within next 2yrs and maybe 15TB drives.

honestly though you wouldnt want 15 TB of SATA SSD cause backing up takes forever, sata is to slow now. 15TB at 500MB/s read write would mean backing up entire drive would take ~9-10 hrs rofl.

 

Yes, but you wouldn't back up 15tb at once.

 

or would i??

 

You'll in an instant.

 

maybe we'll see some pcie 4 or pcie 5 nvme SSDs that runs at like 5GB/sec read/write and about 4TB-8TB in size QLC. only about half hour to copy paste stuff assuming they're all large block sized sequential files.