SAMSUNG T7 Shield 4TB, Portable SSD, up-to 1050MB/s, USB 3.2 Gen2, Rugged, IP65 Water & Dust Resistant, for Photographers, Content Creators and Gaming, Extenal Solid State Drive (MU-PE4T0S/AM), Black

It is a great external ssd and the price can not be beaten. But I do not know who is able to reach the advertised number. I have Intel 13th generation i9- 13900k CPU and z690 motherboard. It is the latest PC you can get. I tested the write speed on different USB ports. You can not reach the limit of 3.2 gen 2 speed which is ( 10gbps/about 1000mb/s). It reaches consistently around 640-680mb/s. So even I plug it into USB 3.2 gen2x2 (20gbps), it still caps at that speed. So do not bother with if you have the 3.2 gen 2x2 (20gbps) port or not. If you plug into USB 3.2 gen1 ( used to be called USB 3.0, 5gbps), it will drop to 300ish mb/s. So you do need a 10gbps USB port to fully reach its potential. But again it wont reach the advertised 1050mb/s. 650mb/s is a lot less not close. It is still amazing that it is faster than 2.5 inch SSD and you can editing video directly on it with plenty fast speed.

This SSD is amazing. The data transfer is very fast. More than I imagined. Also I had the bad luck that it suffered a 2ft fall few days ago, and after the event stills working perfectly. I would recommend this product.

samsung has lead the way for years so no need to question the tech

The best portable ssd i have.

In debating between this T7 Shield, the T7 Portable Ive been eying, and another SanDisk Extreme drive, I opted to go with the one on sale, since performance should be similar enough: an NVMe drive with USB 10 Gbit/s connectivity. At first I was a little unimpressed with the performance of the drive. But then I realized, I was connecting this to a Mac with the drives factory EXFAT formatting. In my experience Macs dont perform as well as Microsofts own EXFAT drivers built into Windows, and the difference can be a couple hundred megs on the sustained writes. Reformatting it as APFS required converting the disk from legacy MBR to GPT (easily done, if you Google how to in Disk Utility, or trivial if you just reach for a Linux box). After giving the drive a Mac native file system, performance was now on par with what I expected. Since my goal was to use this as a Time Machine drive, I didnt bother testing this under my Windows machine but expect performance would have been solid with Microsofts native EXFAT support. In terms of ruggedness, it looks like a fairly standard NVMe/USB assembly was wrapped up in hard plastic to be suitably sealed from the elements. If there was a plug for the USB port, I wouldnt be surprised if I could drop this thing in a pool and dive in after it. The lack of such protection for the port is probably why the drive is rated IP65, for dust tight, spritz it with water proof, not chuck it in the pool proof (IP67?). Where the hard plastized/rubber casing shouldnt chip and nick like a typical enclosure would from being bounced around, I wouldnt suggest pitching it out the back of a moving truck or out of a helicopter in flight. The plastic is hard enough that being carried around in a bag or used in a less than gentle workplace shouldnt be a problem. I bet it would be great for getting out in the world and doing photography in fairly remote places. For my purposes, the drive is expected to see see harsh treatment in the form of being tossed in a bag with other tech and deposited on a desk. So Im less in need of the durable enclosure than I am appreciative of the NVMe performance. But its nice to have a drive I know can take the rigors of travel. Much like my SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD and my old Transcend hard drive. Compared to the T7 portable that has a more normal enclosure, Id say get which ever one is cheapest or that looks good to your tastes. But if you actually do need dust, water, and drop resistance, go with the T7 Shield ;).

This is the best portable SSD I’ve ever had. I’d buy it again in a heartbeat.

Es muy buen producto

Purchased a Beelink mini computer. Added this external drive as a backup to data stored on the mini computer. Plenty fast enough. Recommend

Amazing purchase.

I bought this for the purpose of recording live video while driving the Rivian R1T. It works great and fits perfectly in the storage compartment. With 2 terabytes of storage all trips are completely recorded.