Samsung's portable 2TB SSD

[gr33nFIEND]

Samsung's portable 2TB SSD

Courtesy of their V-NAND flash technology, Samsung is launching their T3 SSD, a portable SSD hard drive capable of capacities of up to 2TB.

 

[AstroTurf]

I can't wait for SSD to surpass ram in speed. I really hope the future has machines that no longer need ram.

Besides that though, at present I really don't see much use for a 2tb portable SSD, especially at that price.

 

[Weasley]

hahaha you can almost buy a pc that can run VR with that money.

 

[The_Imp_ZA]

hahaha you can almost buy a pc that can run VR with that money.

Pretty much. This isn't targeted at consumer's right? Realistically, who is going to buy that?

What do you even need a portable 2TB SSD for?

 

[TechThief]

Pretty much. This isn't targeted at consumer's right? Realistically, who is going to buy that?

What do you even need a portable 2TB SSD for?

Since it is quite new, the price will be that high, just wait and we will all have portable ssd's in the future.

 

[brendanvb]

Since it is quite new, the price will be that high, just wait and we will all have portable ssd's in the future.

By the time we can all afford it there'll be something better :'(

 

[BeoTeK]

But surely the speed on the USB isn't near as fast as that of an SSD's read/write rate?

So it kinda negates the point, does it not?

 

[Apollo]

But surely the speed on the USB isn't near as fast as that of an SSD's read/write rate?

So it kinda negates the point, does it not?

If i remember correctly USB3 can theoretically clock up to 5Gbps which isn't much slower than SATA.

 

[BeoTeK]

If i remember correctly USB3 can theoretically clock up to 5Gbps which isn't much slower than SATA.

Wow, never knew the theoretical rate of USB3.

 

[GregRedd]

If i remember correctly USB3 can theoretically clock up to 5Gbps which isn't much slower than SATA.

This drive uses USB 3.1 which is even more: USB 3.1 spec finalized with speeds up to 10 Gbps

 

[Weasley]

This drive uses USB 3.1 which is even more: USB 3.1 spec finalized with speeds up to 10 Gbps

but that 10Gbps is it shared between all the devices connected?

 

[The_Imp_ZA]

Since it is quite new, the price will be that high, just wait and we will all have portable ssd's in the future.

I don't even have a SSD in my desktop yet.

I still don't think that a portable SSD makes a lot of sense. If you're transferring large files, just use a portable HDD. USB3 models are common now, and are quite fast considering for price.