{"id":758445,"date":"2020-05-20T15:02:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T19:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=758445"},"modified":"2020-05-20T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T19:02:35","slug":"samsung-improves-read-write-speeds-in-its-biz-card-sized-ssds-with-the-new-t7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=758445","title":{"rendered":"Samsung improves read\/write speeds in its biz-card-sized SSDs with the new T7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<ul class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"gallery-item-content\">\n<div class=\"gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/T7_Lifestyle_Blue-980x642-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n          The Samsung T7 is available in blue&#8230;                      [credit:<br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/\">Samsung<\/a><br \/>\n                        ]\n                  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Samsung <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/samsungs-t7-portable-ssd-now-available\/\">has announced<\/a> availability of its <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2z6yxZh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T7 external USB-C solid-state hard drive<\/a>, starting at $110. Like the previous drives in this line, it&#8217;s business-card-sized (except in thickness) and relatively fast.<\/p>\n<p>The T7 is available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB configurations, and it&#8217;s also available in three colors: red, blue, and gray. Packaged inside is a USB-C-to-USB-A cable, so it should be simple enough to connect to legacy ports. It also comes with a USB-C to USB-C cable for users of modern Ultrabooks, MacBooks, and the like. The drive uses the\u00a0USB 3.2 Gen 2 standard.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s exciting here is that Samsung claims this drive can achieve a\u00a0read speed of 1,050MB\/s and a write speed of 1,000MB\/s\u2014significantly faster than its predecessor, the T5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1677434#p3\">Read 4 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1677434&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=W15hjUKgKf8:UQYxyGQWitM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=W15hjUKgKf8:UQYxyGQWitM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=W15hjUKgKf8:UQYxyGQWitM:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=W15hjUKgKf8:UQYxyGQWitM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1677434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Samsung improves read\/write speeds in its biz-card-sized SSDs with the new T7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Samsung T7 is available in blue&#8230; [credit: Samsung ] Samsung has announced availability of its T7 external USB-C solid-state hard drive, starting at $110. Like the previous drives in this line, it&#8217;s business-card-sized (except in thickness) and relatively fast. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=758445\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-758445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/758446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}