I wish it wasn't so hard in modern day to find real content like this that covers the questions that viewers are actually interested in instead of giving a marketing spiel and then a referral link. My search results are inundated with poor quality monetized content. Appreciate what you do. Picked up a 4TB.
Do you find the 1 TB version more than big enough ? It is a toss up between the 1 TB and 2 TB for me . They are a pricey up here in Canada Through Best Buy
@@BenDover-069 - I'm playing more moderately sized games like Sniper Elite 5 and quite a few older games with lower file sizes so it's plenty. When I upgrade my laptop and start playing newer large games may get a 2 TB. Love the speed of this SSD, great for the relatively low cost.
I agree with Vance. It really depends on what you play. In my case I'm storing videos in there so I actually ended up selling the 2TB and buying thr 4TB. I would still say 2TB is great for future proofing, but 1TB should be enough for normaly sized games
In my experience, rubber coatings like this eventually become "gummy" and essentially "melt" over time due to fluctuations in humidity & temperature. This fact alone pushes me towards the regular T7 drive, especially since SSD's don't benefit from "rugged" exteriors nearly as much as an HDD's do.
That's true. I proffered the rubber texture as I feel I'd rather scratches on rubber than scratches on aluminum. I also bought a smaller storage normal T7 and put a removable rubber cover which might give the best of both worlds
In my experience well known brands mostly use high quality rubbers (on silicone basis) that will last a very long time. Instead of becoming gummy or sticky, the rubber may loose some of it's softness over time, especially if exposed to direct sunlight on a regular basis. I also own some gear where the rubber surface became disgustingly sticky. For these, often CHEAP, "made in China" products, the rubber has an extreme chemical smell to start with.
Finally got mine 4TB from amazon (as of June 2023 it's $220+tax). These drives are great for Raspberry Pi home servers (samba + resilio sync + webDAV). I haven't got any problems after I switched to USB SSD drives 5 years ago (after damaged USB HDD drives that running 24x7). I had 500GB, then 1TB, then 2TB, now this 4TB will (and should) last longer before I fill it up 😂😂
does it work good till this day, i have been looking forward to buy it and have seen alot of of people talk about how it stopped working after 1-2 years of use, would you still recommend it?
Hey! I bought it 2 days ago. I am using it on my laptop(dell vostro 3590) It has USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports. I am not getting speed more than 40mbps. Can anyone help me explaining this. What should I do? I bought 1tb samsung t7 shield.
Hi, did you notice usb-c on this SSD is not firmly plugged when you use the cable comparing to other USB-c ports (computer, smartphone, etc) ? You can remove it so easily that you need to be very cautious not to move the cable while transfering data. Don't know if it is mine or if it is common on the T7 Shield. Could you plus check yours pls ?
Hey! I’m looking for a backup drive for all my photos and videos cuz my phone is full , would you recommend this for storing data for long time and btw I will be just throwing all my stuffs in here and not use it regularly , not going with the HDD cuz I’ve heard some scary story that peoples lost all their old memories, so I don’t want that to happen with this expensive drive fail with my precious memories 😭
Yeah, spinning drives (HDD) are much more fragile. If you shake them too much they can break. I would definitely recommend the T7 for your needs. I'd recommend the Shield just in case it gets any bumps and so on, just for a little more protection. The data would be safe regardless if you get the T7 or T7 Shield
You definitely need more than 1 back up, please don’t have all your memories one just 1 drive, it will fail eventually. No drive is 100% guaranteed. I’ve learnt from experience and now use SSD, NAS and the cloud for back ups
Just tested and I do hear a very quiet high pitched sound. Doesn't seem like anything to worry about if you have to pay attention and have your ear right next to it to hear it. If yours is very loud, might be good to check your warranty
Hey I was looking for an ssd to use with my ps5 and came across this one and I was looking and only found reviews about the regular one not this one so I’m doubtful wether this would be compatible with a ps5 or not. Any idea on if it is or not?
Well I haven't tried it, but if the ps5 works with the T7 normal, the T7 shield should work with the ps5 as well. The only difference is the rubber around the drive
@@Wolfgang790tech ty for replying and yeah cause I’m kind of weirded out cause the rubber one is cheaper than the normal one and my question is why if ones protected and the other one isn’t
That's correct. I made a mistake in the video. I meant that there are some external drives that use M.2 NVMe drives that can be much faster than the T7.
I bought this because I take a lot of videos and needed a place to store them. I believe I properly installed it on my windows laptop. Where I'm stuck is i downloaded the app and it is not detecting my ssd. Which seems to be an issue for a lot of people. Looking for how to get my phone to see my ssd. I'm not a very tech savy person so I'm not completely sure I know what I'm doing.
Hey, so if your PC sees it and your phone doesn't, then it's because you formatted the drive. If that's the case, real quick explanation, (read note at bottom before following steps) plug the drive to your PC, open file explorer, double click "This PC" on the bottom left, right click your SSD that should show up there, click "Format", in "File system" change it to exFAT, click start at the bottom. The drive should work on all devices once it's done. Note: THIS WILL DELETE EVERYTHING ON THE DRIVE. MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS BACKED UP AS IT WILL NOT BE EASY TO RECOVER. Hope it works!
@@Wolfgang790tech Okay, so I formatted it to exFAT. However it is still saying No SSD is connected on the app. However I'm now seeing that the app specifies it is for the T3 and T5 so perhaps it can't work with that app. Also, I just got this today so there wouldn't be any personal files on it yet. Hopefully I can get it figured out.
Update, so apparently Samsung Magician is the app I needed and is the app that used to be Samsung SSD 1.0 that I was having trouble finding. Unfortunately there's not much you can actually do with it. I was hoping to have an app to directly transfer files however I can say I was successful in using my phones files app to transfer them so I think all should be fine now.
The material definitely seems like it would, I keep mine in a basket with other tech stuff, and it's just a little dusty, but it's easy to clean off with a wet cloth or even just with your hand
My computer wont recognize my drive. Honestly pretty pissed, i cant find any thing online that has my exact issue and tech support just straight up didnt know how to help and told me to try it on another computer and ended the chat. My issue is my computer makes the dinging noise like a drive is plugged in but doesnt show up in the drive section, and the only place i can find the drive is in the devices and printers section in the control panel and the device manager but no where i can actually open the drive to get the footage off. Anyone know how to access it or at least any ideas? 🙏
Hmmm, very strange. Does the drive show up on other devices? Check if the drive shows up in disk management (just search that in windows start search thing). It might not have a letter assigned to it so it doesn't show up on Windows devices
@@Wolfgang790tech I have two mac books had a slight issue with the software and password on my second mac totally my fault Mac changed up the settings on Ventura. But after that it was smooth sailing. Read and Write speeds are super fast. I wouldn't dedicate my time machine on any of them it would be a waste. I got a separate cheap 1tb hdd solely for that
