Review: Samsung T1 500GB Portable USB 3.0 SSD

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Need a blistering fast portable USB 3.0 Flash Storage unit ? Hey, join us as we review the Samsung T1 Portable SSD. It is a cute and tiny USB 3.0 storage unit weighing in at jusy 30 grams. Our 500 GB ...

    Review: Samsung T1 500GB Portable USB 3.0 SSD
     
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    holystarlight Master Guru

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    pretty decent speeds for portable storage, Isn't as compact as the Corsair voyager gtx, but the price and storage size is appealing. thanks for the review!
     
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    Impressive indeed. I am in the market for large/fast USB 3.0 storage and this will fit the bill.
     
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    Cool drive. But that proprietary connection to the device (typical Samsung) makes it a never purchase for me.
     
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    It looks like a USB3 micro B to me.
     
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  6. holystarlight

    holystarlight Master Guru

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    you would be correct. these connection pretty stranded on portable external HDDs.
     
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    ...there's no proprietary connection here, that's micro USB 3.0

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    Definitely not proprietary as that is the connection for all USB 3.0 HDs.
     
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    That's exactly what it is.
     
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    Yep it's a standard USB 3.0 connector. Now if this was apple it would be some bespoke cable that would be used for only that drive :D.

    Still I've been toying with the idea of buying a USB3.0 caddy and putting my own SSD in there but im too lazy so this could fit the bill :p
     
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    Waddya know. Never seen that before. Thanks all :banana:
     
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    I'd rather just buy a USB 3.0 enclosure and get a SATA 3 SSD. I'm not sure how much performance I'd lose (if any) but if I really want the best performance for an external drive, I'll go for eSATA.
     
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    How this disk can work for iMac 5k ?

    Hello to everybody, i just bought this disk and i want to install it on my iMac 5k, but when i was running the application my Mac can see only 130 mb!!
    Anybody has install this disk on a Mac?
     
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  14. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    That's the secure boot partition. Try to open the installer enter enter the quick setup and the rest should become available.
     
    Hilbert Hagedoorn, Nov 17, 2015
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