{"id":119942,"date":"2017-08-16T10:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T08:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=119942"},"modified":"2017-08-16T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T08:35:09","slug":"samsung-launches-lightning-fast-t5-external-ssds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/119942-samsung-launches-lightning-fast-t5-external-ssds","title":{"rendered":"Samsung launches lightning-fast T5 external SSDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has launched its new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/semiconductor\/minisite\/ssd\/product\/portable\/t5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>T5 portable SSDs<\/strong><\/a>, which boast transfer speeds almost five-times faster than external hard drives.<\/p>\n<p>The devices are available in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities, and connect via a USB 3.1 Gen 2 interface.<\/p>\n<p>The Samsung T5 can deliver up to 540MB\/s transfer speeds, provided the host device supports USB 3.1 Gen 2 and has UASP mode enabled.<\/p>\n<p>Built-in AES 256-bit hardware encryption allows users to protect their files with a password, and the drives are bundled with a USB Type-C to Type-A connector.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung\u2019s T5 external SSDs are available at the following prices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>250GB<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 $130<\/li>\n<li><strong>500GB<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 $200<\/li>\n<li><strong>1TB<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 $400<\/li>\n<li><strong>2TB<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 $800<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/224596-samsung-reveals-galaxy-note-8-teaser-video.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung reveals \u201cGalaxy Note 8\u201d teaser video<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has launched its new\u00a0T5 portable SSDs, which boast transfer speeds almost five-times faster than external hard drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":92087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24930,1435],"class_list":["post-119942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-external-ssd","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}