Samsung Portable SSD T7 Shield
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I bought 3 of these on Black Friday Sales from Amazon, and noticed that the USB-C female ports on all of then a buried a bit deep in the casing. The connection is not very good, but at the time I needed the SSD storage and never thought to return them straight away. The connections now are hit and miss, even on super expensive cables, so I concluded that the SSDs were fake/counterfeit, or made by a third party at low cost. I tried the Samsung Magician software, but that is not mounting any drive. I have spent a number of hours and days on the problem, and conclude that these were a bad purchase. I have a T9 which is a better connection, but trying to get help from Samsung has been fruitless-they simply defer to the Samsung Magician software, as do the Reddit crowd. I have lost all confidence in Samsung storage, and will be migrating at great expense to Lenovo. Other evidence is the Serial Number and QR code on the casing-none of which are of any use. Samsung have no way of checking the SN. The QR code is bogus, and does not register on my iPhone reader. All a bit disconcerting, since we entrust our valuable files to that company. A tough pill to swallow since I went all in with Samsung SSD over other brands.sam
Follow-up · I invested in some "more expensive" cables (not knowing if the investment would work), and managed to get firmer connection with 3 of the 6 SSDs. Even with the more expensive cables, the other three SSDs require care when attaching the cable to make sure the cable is fully seated, and one SSD is really very insecure-so much so that I have to be careful not to touch it, and make sure it is flat on the desk and not at an angle. Most SSDs are premium pricing/expensive for the technology over HDD, so it is inconvenient to go through these issues after paying the higher price. Quality control is lacking in this price range if the USB-C connector does not sit flush with the outer edge of the case. I have moved across to Lenovo (excellent connection, with metal Aluminium case), and my new Sandisk Extreme is also superb quality.
Purchased in at Amazon for $299.
Very rugged, very fast – It's only used as a PC backup drive but data can be copied to it fast, I was writing at 310MB/s using the usb-a to usb-c cable. I've not tested the usb-c to usb-c cable which also came with the package. Would be better utilised by people on the go as it seems very durable but was much cheaper than the regular one. It was formatted as exFat, so works on mac and PC out of the box. As this will only be used on PC I formatted it to NTFS.
Purchased in at JB Hi-Fi for $119.
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