If you’re constantly running out of storage space on your laptop or PC (as much as I love my Mac mini, 256GB for a desktop computer is not a lot), or you need to work with large files across different devices, then it may be worth investing in a high-speed portable SSD. In fact, a portable SSD is also a very reliable backup device for all. your important files, whether you’re a professional, creative or student.
Now, admittedly external SSDs aren’t necessarily as fast as the best internal SSDs, but some high-performance models can deliver read/write speeds of up to 2GB per second, much like our choice for the best overall portable SSD, the Samsung T9.
The T9 follows on the footsteps of the Samsung T5 and T7, both of which were excellent backup devices in their own right, but the T9 is pricey, retailing for AU$549 for 1TB of storage on Samsung’s own website.
So it’s a good thing that the 1TB T9 portable SSD is down to AU$369 on Amazon for EOFY. That’s a 33% price drop, much more than the 16% off that Amazon is listing and works out to just 37 cents per gig of storage.
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In addition to the blazing fast 2GB per second read and write speeds, the Samsung T9 also takes advantage of a caching system to maintain writing performance. Our testing found read speeds of between 1,700MB/s and 2,000 MB/s as well as writes between 1,300MB/s and 1,900MB/s depending on the workload. For reference, that’s a sizable jump from the previous generation of portable SSDs.
Also helping with the speeds is Samsung’s Dynamic Thermal Guard technology to prevent overheating to help sustain the same performance. For a different kind of security, users can protect the contents with an AES 256-bit encrypted password.
Samsung claims the T9 has a drop resistance of up to 3m with its rugged exterior, while also being compact at 88mm x 60mm x 14mm and lightweight at 122g.
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