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Samsung Electronics Announces Portable SSD T3

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Samsung Electronics America, Inc., today announced the Samsung Portable SSD T3, a premium, palm-sized, external solid state drive (SSD) that offers multi-terabyte (TB) storage capacity. Equipped with Samsung's proprietary Vertical NAND (V-NAND) and SSD TurboWrite technology, the T3 drive provides advanced performance, enabling consumers, content creators, business and IT professionals, to quickly and easily store and transfer large multimedia content across a variety of devices.

"Following the successful worldwide launch of the Portable SSD T1 in 2015, we made several significant upgrades to the T3 based on the feedback and needs of our customers, which included content creators and business professionals in particular," said Un-Soo Kim, Senior Vice President of Brand Product Marketing, Memory Business at Samsung Electronics. "As such, the T3 delivers the outstanding performance, storage capacity and durability needed from an external storage device for today's mobile lifestyle, without compromising on style or security. It's the new portable external storage drive users can depend on in any situation or environment."



Representing a major step forward for external, mobile storage, SSDs offer a truly dependable and versatile solution. Samsung is leading the market by offering a new 2TB T3 SSD, along with a wide range of capacity options including 250 gigabyte (GB), 500GB, and 1TB. Recently chosen as an honoree for the 2016 CES Innovation Awards, in the Wireless Handset Accessories category, the new T3 drive will be on display at Samsung Electronics' booth (#11906) during CES 2016. The booth will be in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, from January 6 to 9.

External Storage with a New Level of Performance
With the rise of rich 4K content, consumers are increasingly relying on external storage solutions, while seeking faster data transfer speeds and large capacity on multiple devices. The T3 solves these concerns by enabling blazing-fast file transfers based on sequential read and write speeds of up to 450MB/s with a USB 3.1 interface, which is up to four times faster than alternative external HDD solutions.

Mobility and Durability Suited for an On-the-Go Lifestyle
Designed specifically for today's mobile lifestyle, the Portable SSD T3 is compact, lightweight and durable. The drive is smaller than an average business card and weighs a mere 51 grams approximately (less than two ounces), allowing users to easily carry large amounts of data with them anywhere.

Unlike an external HDD, the SSDs do not have moving parts and so the T3 is inherently better protected from damage or data loss due to bumps or drops. Featuring a new shock-resistant metal case and internal frame, the T3 can withstand up to 1500G of force and will survive a drop of up to two meters. The drive's integrated Thermal Guard prevents overheating in extreme temperatures, and the T3 comes with a three-year limited warranty.

Increased Compatibility and Data Security
Featuring an adopted USB 3.1 Type C connection, the T3 is compatible with a wide range of USB supported devices, including the latest Android smartphones and tablets, and computers with Windows or Mac OS. Users can send data from the T3 to a PC and vice versa, access content on the T3 through mobile devices, and view the drive's multimedia content on large-screen devices such as TVs. The T3 uses exFAT, a widely adopted file system, as its default file recognition format to create a seamless user experience. The T3 also works with a brand-new complementary Samsung Portable SSD Android mobile app which supports password changes and remaining capacity checks.

The drive has a simple set-up process for users, with one user-set password. The drive is equipped with AES 256-bit hardware encryption for the high level of security and protection across Windows, Mac and Android OS based devices. Even if the drive should fall into the wrong hands, the data stored on it would be inaccessible.

The Samsung Portable SSD T3 will be first launched in February, 2016 in countries including the United States, China, Korea and select European countries and will subsequently become available worldwide.



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How much demand is there for portable SSDs? For smaller capacities (sub 128GB-ish?), it seems like it would be covered by the flash drive market. Larger capacities, SSDs shouldn't be price-competitive with HDDs. That puts the market for these in a shock resistant, high capacity, high speed portable drives where money isn't the primary concern. Sounds like a small market, but here these things are doing seemingly well. I don't quite get it.
 
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How much demand is there for portable SSDs? For smaller capacities (sub 128GB-ish?), it seems like it would be covered by the flash drive market. Larger capacities, SSDs shouldn't be price-competitive with HDDs. That puts the market for these in a shock resistant, high capacity, high speed portable drives where money isn't the primary concern. Sounds like a small market, but here these things are doing seemingly well. I don't quite get it.

These devices are awesome, and well made. @xvi, in the market of moving large volumes of data quickly, aka over night shipping, the smaller you can get the capacity the better(less shipping cost), plus these drives move data like a truck.
 
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How much demand is there for portable SSDs? For smaller capacities (sub 128GB-ish?), it seems like it would be covered by the flash drive market. Larger capacities, SSDs shouldn't be price-competitive with HDDs. That puts the market for these in a shock resistant, high capacity, high speed portable drives where money isn't the primary concern. Sounds like a small market, but here these things are doing seemingly well. I don't quite get it.

Friend of mine has probably close to 40 1-2TB portable drives. Mostly mechanical but the older models are starting to be replaced by SSDs for the reasons you mentioned. The price isn't that high when considering how much faster they transfer and how much longer they'll last given how much his drives travel.
 
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