![]() Overall, expect a fast, compact portable SSD with an excellent five-year warranty. Other benchmarks delivered the same range of results but transferring a single 10GB file proved to be slower than expected. During our benchmarking with CrystalDiskMark, the drive reached 1046MBps (read) and 1013MBps (write). Inside, you’ll find a SN550E, a PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe drive that pairs an ASMedia ASM2362 bridge with a SanDisk 20-82-10023 controller and SanDisk BiCS 4 96L 3D TLC flash memory. You can pick up three different capacities (500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB) in four different colors (blue, red, champagne gold, and gray silver). We were just as impressed with its sleek, ridged metal design, which improves grip while reducing the chance of causing damage to anything else thanks to its curvy, pebblesque shape. At 46g, measuring 10 x 5.5 x 0.9cm, this is an impressively slim-line footprint. It was one of the first things we noticed about the drive. Read our full Samsung Portable SSD T5 reviewĪ refresh to Western Digital’s much-loved mainstream external SSD, the WD My Passport is one of the best portable SSDs for thin and lightweight design. Otherwise, the Samsung T5 is a great all-rounder SSD with fast transfer rates for moving or carrying large amounts of data. If you already have a T3, you can doubtless stick with it for the time being. If you’re not fussed about those performance gains, the Samsung T3 should be more than enough, and at a cheaper price now, too. It's also backwards compatible with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 if your PC doesn't have USB Type-C. ![]() It comes with a 10Gbps USB 3.1 Type-C Gen 2, making it capable of delivering twice the maximum theoretical transfer rate of its predecessors. There’s a fast USB Type-C connection that ekes out every last drop of performance from the solid-state drive inside. If you’re looking for a true portable, this one is proof at last, that an external drive can be smaller than a high-powered power bank or a stack of credit cards.īuilding on the brilliant design and performance of its predecessor, the Samsung T3, the T5 does bring performance gains. “A masterclass in portable storage” is how we described this speedy drive after our time. Best of all by installing this drive in a midrange PC system, the user should notice some impressive speeds from boot-up, general Windows use and even gaming which is where the SanDisk Ultra II SSD shines.Samsung’s brilliant line-up of portable SSDs continues with the excellent Samsung Portable SSD T5. The SanDisk Ultra II SSD is a very impressive drive that for the 240GB is priced at just $125.00 AUD (November 2014) and definitely gives it competitors (did someone say Samsung) a run for their money in terms of performance and price. The drive scored a respectable (and fast) 3 seconds to logon and 17.41 seconds to the desktop. As you can see from the results below, the unit did mirror the documentation from SanDisk in terms of its performance.Īnother tool we tried was BootRacer which is a free utility that measures how long it takes your PC to boot up and saves it in an archive in order to fine-tune your operating system. However in order to see how the drive performs is via benchmarking and we tested this unit on several programs that included ATTO Disk Benchmark, Crystal Disk Mark and AS SSD, three very popular software testing programs. ![]() This utility is very informative and more importantly easy to use which includes access to the excellent SanDisk Support System. The dashboard is broken down into Status, Performance, Tools, Settings and Help. features, allows for firmware upgrades and silently monitors your drive. The drive also supports the SanDisk SSD Dashboard which monitors the drive, includes the S.M.A.R.T. Power consumption is equally impressive that during maximum read speeds is 2.7W with write speeds of 4.5W and an idle rate of just 75mW. The drive is also a ultra-slim 2.5 inch 7mm form factor unit that improves multitasking thanks to its volatile and non-volatile tiered caching. This is not to say that the drive will fail after the 3-year warranty but it’s an additional layer of protection for the user, especially of the integrity of data. that stands for Self-monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology which basically monitors your drive for any issues that may be linked to drive failure. The drive also comes with the inclusion of S.M.A.R.T. The drive also comes with a 3-year warranty from SanDisk and uses TLC Flash NAND to not only drop the production cost but when added with the Marvell 88SS9187 controller and the nCache 2.0, it creates a rather impressive drive that boasts sequential read speeds of up to 550MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 500MB/s. The SanDisk Ultra II SSD comes in a variety of sizes that include 120GB, 240GB (reviewed), 480GB and 960GB which although isn’t the fast drive on the market, is relatively quite well priced compared to its competitors.
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