This is a major step forward. I use every os out there and being able to secure my files and use cross platform is a huge win. Thanks for the good detailed review
Excellent review, Jeff! It's really nice to know that it works without any extra installation on an ipad pro. And bonus good news is that the T5 will become even cheaper. hehe
Fingerprint sensor definitely is an extra touch of security, especially when you travel for work and need your work data with sensitive files to be secure. Certainly will look into purchasing this.
Thank you for including the graph at the end! I'm looking to pick up an SSD for transferring 500GB at a time and have no need for the fingerprints security, so it looks like the T7 doesn't make sense for me. Difficult to justify the $700 price tag on the 2TB x5, the T5 is definitely the way to go for most people... but I think I'm going to go with the x5 for editing 6K raw files off of, but for quick initial backups I'll wait a little bit longer on transfers and go T5
I don't know if you've bought yet, but I read someone say the X5 can experience the throttling with large files too. I think it's always a heat thing with these large files and fast data transfer rates. Maybe you can confirm if you pulled the trigger.
are you able to create a larger, unencrypted partition while still keeping the secure partition locked? i.e - the ability to use a portion of the drive like a normal usb disk while the rest of it is only accessible when unlocked?
@@slaphappy7559 While I agree with you 100%, hows it any different than Apple having already collected probably yours and surely millions of other peoples fingerprints from iPhone 5-8 era touch id phones?
I picked up the 2tb version today at Costco for 129.99. That's 60.00 off their normal pricing. The sale ends on 6/11/2023. This is a great travel drive for my purposes.
Great review. You hit all the points. I checked on the price and it is ridiculously overpriced. I’m not going to buy one until the competition comes out with their version and a reasonable price.
Thanks for the review. Very informative. I am going to get one. Huge fan of fingerprint readers, so more convenient than typing passwords. I will probably get one with small capacity for sensitive files and wait for the tb units with this functionality to show up.
Hmm... Cool, but not really needed. If you format all your external drives w/ encrypted partition, as you should, then they will not be accessible unless you enter the password to decrypt them. Been doing this for years, even on thumb drives. No additional software needed. Thanks for the review!
shubham maske - In the Disk Utility, erase the drive, and choose: Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted): Uses the Mac format, requires a password, and encrypts the partition. Whenever you insert the drive on any other Mac, it will ask for the password and decrypt its contents. If it’s your home machine, you can choose to save the password to your keychain. Easy Peasy, and no need to depend on third-party software that could fail when you most need the contents of that drive. You should also do the same on your Time Machine drives. If anyone were to get a hold of those, they will be paper weights unless you know the password (goes without saying, that this one should be long and complex. Preferably random generated and saved on a password manager). Cheers
That's a really good product. I always was worried about loosing my ssd and leaking my data. Had happned to me in pasts twice! I guess, this is what I need, Thanks Samsung.
Would I be able to save a copy of Windows onto a T7, then use the type C to type A connector to install the operating system through a motherboard's BIOS flashback feature on the rear IO? Or Can this type of OS installation only be done by saving the OS onto a USB stick?
"this drive is read only until you authenticate", i though "read-only" allows you to read them as well, not just having them displayed in a window. The files looked rather "classified" than read only.
For me, the fingerprint feature is twice as useful. First, it is more convenient than manually entering the password. But, perhaps even more importantly for me, is that there is no need to install a proprietary application on other computers. And the latter advantage I realized not immediately, but only when I bought my mom the T5, and this when I already knew about the existence of the T7 Touch. ) That's why the next purchase definitely will be the Touch version.
Does the fingerprint protection in this device work similarly to Bitlocker? or will removing it from its case and using another housing allow the fingerprints to be bypassed? For heat issues during large file transfers, a phone cooler will assist keep the temperature down.
@@elprietito1281 Never bothered buying a PS5, Bought a new PS4 just before PS5 launch, it works well enough with that. No real interest in a PS5 until Battlefield 6 arrives
@@slaphappy7559 one wise man called Jezus once said: u got a wife, u got a life The jezus thing was made up but still i cant survive playing games my whole live if i did i was already dead
Is there any problem using it with a Mac? Have read some reviews on Amazon and people are saying that they have some issues(mostly with the app) using it with the Mac.
@@owelz Im using the drive just without the Samsung Software for fingerprint and security and it seems to be fine and very fast. I just wonder if this whole no update is a dumb Samsung Versus Apple not supporting each other out of stupidity
Missing details of the slowdown reasons of the drives. They have what's called an "SLC Cache" which has a limited amount of GB's it can write at full speed and then it slows down. Of course heat definitely contributes to throtling just as you said as well.
I have MB Pro 14" M1 running Ventura. Everything works as described on your video, except when I attach the drive again after first time and setting password and fingerprints, the software does not recog I E the drive, so if I want to modify fingerprints, password or rename the disk, I have to reinstall the software.
Great video man. I have a question. If I am using only iPad Pro, would I bee able to do the initial security settings (like setting up the password and touch ID) on the iPad, or it can only be done on the Mac or PC? Thank You
The problem is with Time Machine. Apple hasn't updated the software to work with APFS. So, no APFS drive will back up using Time Machine. Other backup software out there will, if you research a bit.
@@alexbreyer6921 Hey Alex I needed a little help and excuse me for my noobiness. I have an extra macbook pro which is a 2015 13" model with i5. It's internal ssd gave up recently and I tried running it with an external hard drive which led me to discover that I cannot turn an HDD into an APFS drive so I'm stuck with El Capitan. Will using the t5 as an external drive solve this problem and let me upgrade to catalina ?
@@guptageneralstores5243 Research the newer OS versions. I think you can now use an HDD in the newer format. I'd avoid Catalina as long as possible, though. Weirdness creeps up often.
Thank you so much for the review. I'm able to breathe a sigh of relief. I've just ordered the T7 Touch from Samsung directly and I got the 1tb size. I plan on using it on my Chromebook Plus 12th gen core i3 Flip for accumulated photos. I have the 2020 MacBook Air with the M1 chip but I haven't stored any photos on it yet and I'm not planning on it for now. This SSD is pre-formatted already in ex-FAT mode so I don't have to reformat it. Is this what you think too?
So just curious, has anyone tried laying the drive flat on one of those cold pads you keep in the fridge for injuries? My assumption is the drive has a built in heat sensor and if you can keep the drive cool enough you could prevent the throttling.
Its probably not just heat. The drive probably has QLC flash and allocates some SLC to act as a cache. When that fills up, you're reading/writing direct to/from QLC.
Wait....which is longer again? T5 or T7? Can you go through that one more time? Is that T5 longer or shorter? Wait...which one is thicker? T5 or T7.... Can we have a separate video on that as well? How much thicker? Is it the thickness of 1 or 2 Apple Card?
was working on a film set with 2x of the samsung t5, transferring up to 1.5tb a day (8k raw) to them each, t5 occasionally throttled down to 250mb a second, 900mb speed improvement could be helpful, but only if it didn't throttle as much
If wanting to access my files from this SSD on someone else's PC/Mac, I do not need to download Samsung software on theirs? Just plug in, fingerprint/pw, and can instantly read/write?
Small question, how does it work if you activate the fingerprint option and you then copy movies to the drive and from then connect the drive to your TV for playback. Can your TV read from the drive or not ?
Nice Hardware, but BEWARE - You’ll probably install SPYWARE too! I bought this device and it’s pretty neat hardware. Be aware, however, that using the headline feature of this device - the fingerprint scanner - requires you to install bloat- / spyware from Samsung on your system. The actual application, once installed, will allow you to set up the security and to configure your password and fingerprints. What you won’t necessarily realise, unless you pay close attention during the installation process, is that it will also install a deamon that permanently runs in the background of your system (starting up automatically whenever you reboot the system). Not only does this eat up a bit of system ressources and battery (a small amount per deamon, but it adds up); This deamon also monitors your activity and reports data about your system, your address, your language settings and your usage back to Samsung's servers. From there it’s shared with unidentified 3rd parties (as laid out in the license agreement that you will hastily accept when eager to use your new device). This monitoring and the data transfer have absolutely no functional justification whatsoever. It does not provide you with any benefit or additional features. You cannot opt out of this, if you want to use the security features of the device, and it’s sufficiently sneaky for most people to be unaware of it. In my book, for all intents and purposes, this is SPYWARE. Of course no uninstall app is provided, leaving you to painstakingly identify all relevant files in the depths of the system folders of your MacOS or Windows and to delete them manually one by one (so let’s call the whole thing bloatware as well). Not only is this COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE for a nearly £500 / EUR500 / $500 device, it is also really rude to not make this very clear to customers before they purchase a device. Once you own it, there is no way around it, if you want to use the advertised features. Come on Samsung ! Really? I for one will not buy another one of these (otherwise lovely) devices, unless Samsung come to their senses and stop sneaking such stuff in under the radar!
Are you sure its just the heat? Many cheaper SSDs, don't have any DRAM cache, they're often QLC or TLC and revert a small part of storage to SLC as pseudo cache, so data sits in this before being written to slower QLC. (The Crucial X8 definitely does this, and I'd be surprised in the T7 wasn't doing similar).
May I throw in a suggestion for a video here ? : => old iMacs vamping up Speeds & upgrading their speeds by running the MAC OS systems (with internal old HD's content included of course), from bootable, external, SSD drives, (again with the former HD's content of your internal HD of course) connected with the old iMacs built-in Thunderbolt 2 or USB 3.o or 3.1 or 3.2 GEN2, or even older firewire 800 Connection on the macs..etc, etc...). And to top it off, comparing it with running these older macs from a bootable 500Gb or 1Tb Sandisk or Lexar "SD Memory card",.... which works like a charm, by the way. In both scenarios using the internal Mac HD now as the backup drive for the time machine backup system... just to be safe... Food for Thought?
Plus I think the drive is designed to meet your data storage/backup needs with security as a priority so I don't think this would be the choice if you're looking at performing tasks like booting from external devices which you're gonna be formating around.
I purchased the Samsung T7 2TB without the touch button and the LaCie Rugged USB-C 5 TB for use with the MacBook Air M1should I format them APFS or macOS extended journaled?
It doesn't work for me in Big Sur with the T7 (MBP2020). I can only access the HD, I can't use the Touch program. Does not recognize the program, is in a loop, asks to install something that is already installed.
This is a major step forward. I use every os out there and being able to secure my files and use cross platform is a huge win. Thanks for the good detailed review
I didn't know I needed a fingerprint reader on my drives.... but now I think I do
Hey!
Until The Sensor scratches
@@ericlink1278 haven't had that problem but if it does and somehow affects the sensor you just type the password /shrug
@@DarrinLin i thought you needed the fingerprint and the password?....did i misunderstand?
@@christopher_martin nope it’s one or the other. Think of the password as the master/backup.
I like the idea of the fingerprint sensor. Speeds are solid too.
pun intended?
Outragouskill probably
Excellent review, Jeff! It's really nice to know that it works without any extra installation on an ipad pro. And bonus good news is that the T5 will become even cheaper. hehe
Fingerprint sensor definitely is an extra touch of security, especially when you travel for work and need your work data with sensitive files to be secure. Certainly will look into purchasing this.
Samsung makes the best SSD drives hands down.
This is so cool! Samsung always improving their products, I love it! very useful feature.
Pretty much legendary
Thank you for including the graph at the end! I'm looking to pick up an SSD for transferring 500GB at a time and have no need for the fingerprints security, so it looks like the T7 doesn't make sense for me. Difficult to justify the $700 price tag on the 2TB x5, the T5 is definitely the way to go for most people... but I think I'm going to go with the x5 for editing 6K raw files off of, but for quick initial backups I'll wait a little bit longer on transfers and go T5
I don't know if you've bought yet, but I read someone say the X5 can experience the throttling with large files too. I think it's always a heat thing with these large files and fast data transfer rates. Maybe you can confirm if you pulled the trigger.
A braided cable would’ve been so hot.
are you able to create a larger, unencrypted partition while still keeping the secure partition locked? i.e - the ability to use a portion of the drive like a normal usb disk while the rest of it is only accessible when unlocked?
No, this is not compatible with all supported file systems.
I think I will wait for theT7 but without a fingerprint sensor.
Les Lariz - It will probably be much cheaper too.
Yea me too, I cant say I need Samsung to have a copy of my fingerprints
@@slaphappy7559 While I agree with you 100%, hows it any different than Apple having already collected probably yours and surely millions of other peoples fingerprints from iPhone 5-8 era touch id phones?
Trust samsung its a korean brand. Dont trust chinese brands like huawei one plus oppo xiaomi lol
@@abdiaden7049 I dont use Smart Phones
I picked up the 2tb version today at Costco for 129.99. That's 60.00 off their normal pricing. The sale ends on 6/11/2023. This is a great travel drive for my purposes.
the most informative video one can want for this drive
Great review. You hit all the points. I checked on the price and it is ridiculously overpriced. I’m not going to buy one until the competition comes out with their version and a reasonable price.
You can literally fit this in a wallet. Went for the 500gb model and its pure bliss. Fast speeds, compact and the fingerprint id is a nice touch.
Did it work straight away with Big Sur?
Great review Jeff. Glad you covered set-up as the documentation was practically non-existent with the drive itself.
Thanks again JB. Another great and honest review. Thanks for pointing out that under heavy load, there maybe some dip in performance. 🙏
Just placed my order. It somehow helps with my anxiety of losing my drive and some grabs my data.
Is it possible to divide the SSD in half and format one side in APFS for a Macbook and other in NTFS for a Windows laptop?
I love my T5 SSD, looks like T7 is a bit to thin for me to grab.
Thanks for the review. Very informative. I am going to get one. Huge fan of fingerprint readers, so more convenient than typing passwords. I will probably get one with small capacity for sensitive files and wait for the tb units with this functionality to show up.
Hmm... Cool, but not really needed.
If you format all your external drives w/ encrypted partition, as you should, then they will not be accessible unless you enter the password to decrypt them. Been doing this for years, even on thumb drives. No additional software needed. Thanks for the review!
Can you set that up in crime management ?
Can you tell me how to do that
shubham maske - In the Disk Utility, erase the drive, and choose: Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted): Uses the Mac format, requires a password, and encrypts the partition.
Whenever you insert the drive on any other Mac, it will ask for the password and decrypt its contents. If it’s your home machine, you can choose to save the password to your keychain. Easy Peasy, and no need to depend on third-party software that could fail when you most need the contents of that drive. You should also do the same on your Time Machine drives. If anyone were to get a hold of those, they will be paper weights unless you know the password (goes without saying, that this one should be long and complex. Preferably random generated and saved on a password manager).
Cheers
@@Neur0bit thanks a lot for the reply, learned a new thing today 😊
@@shubhammaske1272 - You bet! Glad to help!
Imagine using this on macbook "we were bad but now we're good
I just got one 1Tb version for video - I won't use the fingerprint but it was cheaper than the non fingerprint version.
The reviewers keep failing to mention that $130.00 is for the 500gb version, the 1tb is $230.00.
A great review Jeff, but your faint background music was so bloody distracting!
Did you and appleinsider plan to upload your reviews at exactly the same time 😂
It's an embargo. Samsung says "don't post this until such and such time", and most journalists/bloggers/youtubers will agree.
@@9to5Mac I didn't know that....I learned 2 new things today
How secure is Samsung's encryption?
if anyone tries to get in, it just explodes and burns up. couldn't be more secure.
natarem damn. I’m ordering that now.
Good question.
natarem got me sold
@@natarem Self destruct sequences are always secure
Dude, where didnyou get the cartoons character voice? It's awesome!
At the garbage...bro....
Getting this in 2 months! So pumped up to put my files in here.
And you like it?
@@Don-po8vl oh yes. It is superb👌
Does it work with macbooks ?
They should now build a similar style external drive with NVME.2 technology .. 2500 plus read / write speed and call it a day.
Thanks for a great review Jeff, and I now have one on order.
That's a really good product.
I always was worried about loosing my ssd and leaking my data. Had happned to me in pasts twice!
I guess, this is what I need, Thanks Samsung.
Would loved to have the touch in red. The t7 is in red and that’s kinda what sold me on it.
This is cool. I had to disable encryption on my T3 becase I don't have admin rights to unlock the drive on my school computer.
Would I be able to save a copy of Windows onto a T7, then use the type C to type A connector to install the operating system through a motherboard's BIOS flashback feature on the rear IO? Or Can this type of OS installation only be done by saving the OS onto a USB stick?
Great video, what program do you use to test the ssd speed.? I just bought an ssd drive but I don't know how it runs.
tried a few but had more luck with black magic disk speed
"this drive is read only until you authenticate", i though "read-only" allows you to read them as well, not just having them displayed in a window. The files looked rather "classified" than read only.
Excellent review! Keep it up! 🔥🔥🔥
For me, the fingerprint feature is twice as useful. First, it is more convenient than manually entering the password. But, perhaps even more importantly for me, is that there is no need to install a proprietary application on other computers. And the latter advantage I realized not immediately, but only when I bought my mom the T5, and this when I already knew about the existence of the T7 Touch. ) That's why the next purchase definitely will be the Touch version.
Im not a Samsung fan but I like there innovations
Please mention can we use this in android after enable finger print sensor
What if I lose my finger during a fight with my cute latin girlfriend?
_Just pick it up off the ground and lick it clean and WALLAH!! YOU'RE IN!!!_
on my mac Samsung app telling me can't find the disc. but the disc is in the finder
Does the fingerprint protection in this device work similarly to Bitlocker? or will removing it from its case and using another housing allow the fingerprints to be bypassed? For heat issues during large file transfers, a phone cooler will assist keep the temperature down.
I have this baby in mind for the PS5 but I will go for the STD over the Touch. Thanks great review.
How did it work for the PS5? Any difference with downloading speed?
@@elprietito1281 Never bothered buying a PS5, Bought a new PS4 just before PS5 launch, it works well enough with that. No real interest in a PS5 until Battlefield 6 arrives
@@slaphappy7559 the only kid with a brain
@@Luca-La-Rosa Thanks buddy but im almost 50 years old, not so caught up in needless hype anymore.
@@slaphappy7559 one wise man called Jezus once said: u got a wife, u got a life
The jezus thing was made up but still i cant survive playing games my whole live if i did i was already dead
Will I get the same read and write speeds if I connects via type c to type a cable to my pc?
Is there any problem using it with a Mac? Have read some reviews on Amazon and people are saying that they have some issues(mostly with the app) using it with the Mac.
Vadim I’m having a problem now it won’t install the software :(
Benjamin B rown And there is no update coming to fix this?
@@owelz Im using the drive just without the Samsung Software for fingerprint and security and it seems to be fine and very fast. I just wonder if this whole no update is a dumb Samsung Versus Apple not supporting each other out of stupidity
Damn this T7 with fingerprint sensor is awesome! I just bought Seagate One Touch SSD today oh well.
don't know why but I couldn't go to the steps of welcome to access the Samsung portable while it was only asking for refresh??
Missing details of the slowdown reasons of the drives. They have what's called an "SLC Cache" which has a limited amount of GB's it can write at full speed and then it slows down. Of course heat definitely contributes to throtling just as you said as well.
This is so cool! I want to buy this
Do you have to use the fingerprint sensor? Or it wont read without a saved print?
I have MB Pro 14" M1 running Ventura. Everything works as described on your video, except when I attach the drive again after first time and setting password and fingerprints, the software does not recog I E the drive, so if I want to modify fingerprints, password or rename the disk, I have to reinstall the software.
Great video man. I have a question. If I am using only iPad Pro, would I bee able to do the initial security settings (like setting up the password and touch ID) on the iPad, or it can only be done on the Mac or PC? Thank You
I would like the exact same answer.
The initial setup cannot be done on ipad, but once setup dobe it can be used perfectly on ipd pro
you say download a film. to it, then access it via an Android mobile phone to watch the stored film? thank
Received mine today, it's amazing!
Wow this is nice
Been waiting for it.
Just wondering the heat ??
Ordered one today
Hello, I have a problem with the installation itself, can you help?
Does it solve the APFS encryption problem with T5 that prevents it from being used as an encrypted Time Machine volume?
The problem is with Time Machine. Apple hasn't updated the software to work with APFS. So, no APFS drive will back up using Time Machine. Other backup software out there will, if you research a bit.
@@alexbreyer6921 Hey Alex I needed a little help and excuse me for my noobiness. I have an extra macbook pro which is a 2015 13" model with i5. It's internal ssd gave up recently and I tried running it with an external hard drive which led me to discover that I cannot turn an HDD into an APFS drive so I'm stuck with El Capitan. Will using the t5 as an external drive solve this problem and let me upgrade to catalina ?
@@guptageneralstores5243 I believe yes.
@@guptageneralstores5243 Research the newer OS versions. I think you can now use an HDD in the newer format. I'd avoid Catalina as long as possible, though. Weirdness creeps up often.
Quick question, what if I replace the cable with a thunderbolt 4? Will it get more than 1gbps transfer speed??
Unfortunately the format change (size) screws up a lot of camera guys as there are a lot of T5 camera docs that use that format... :(
definitely getting one
Thank you so much for the review. I'm able to breathe a sigh of relief. I've just ordered the T7 Touch from Samsung directly and I got the 1tb size. I plan on using it on my Chromebook Plus 12th gen core i3 Flip for accumulated photos. I have the 2020 MacBook Air with the M1 chip but I haven't stored any photos on it yet and I'm not planning on it for now. This SSD is pre-formatted already in ex-FAT mode so I don't have to reformat it. Is this what you think too?
I reckon a lot of people use the c to A cable. Most computer still don’t use c to c connections yet. That I have seen.
So just curious, has anyone tried laying the drive flat on one of those cold pads you keep in the fridge for injuries? My assumption is the drive has a built in heat sensor and if you can keep the drive cool enough you could prevent the throttling.
Its probably not just heat. The drive probably has QLC flash and allocates some SLC to act as a cache. When that fills up, you're reading/writing direct to/from QLC.
Wait....which is longer again? T5 or T7? Can you go through that one more time? Is that T5 longer or shorter? Wait...which one is thicker? T5 or T7.... Can we have a separate video on that as well? How much thicker? Is it the thickness of 1 or 2 Apple Card?
we just need one that's FIDO2 compliant (A combo unit that is a FIDO2 key / offline password manager & secure storage)
So water cooling a ssd isn't a bad idea
Does this work in rear seat entertainment like bmw 7 series or s class have for watching movie ?
Not sure if I will give it a try, I had a lot of problems with Samsung storage devices.
thanks for the video ... one question i can´t find an answer: will the fingerprint.stuff also work when formatting the drive to APFS?
was working on a film set with 2x of the samsung t5, transferring up to 1.5tb a day (8k raw) to them each, t5 occasionally throttled down to 250mb a second, 900mb speed improvement could be helpful, but only if it didn't throttle as much
Hello does it work with any macbook pro models? I have the Macbook Pro 2019
If wanting to access my files from this SSD on someone else's PC/Mac, I do not need to download Samsung software on theirs? Just plug in, fingerprint/pw, and can instantly read/write?
When will the face id version gonna be released?
When it can recognize ugly faces like yours!
@@artenman !!!!!
@@batu3580 get roasted NERD
@artenman 😂😂😂😂😂
Small question, how does it work if you activate the fingerprint option and you then copy movies to the drive and from then connect the drive to your TV for playback. Can your TV read from the drive or not ?
Does it have an activity lite so you can see it is transferring data from a distance?
what way around solution would you recommend for older thunderbolt 2 macs to use such NVME's external Drives?
umm you embeded your right forefinger for security and then opened it later with yur thumb hahahah its magic ,,,,,,,,,
Feedback , louder voice needed
Great video btw
Roger that.
I dont have a computer or laptop so can I setup and install this device using my Galaxy S22 Ultra?
Is it advisable to reformat the drive to APFS? Would that wipe out the Samsung Touch features?
great review
jeff what if the fingerprint didnt work. How to enter the password on lets say the ipad?
You don't. There's no app for the iPad. You'll need to connect it to your Mac. It should work, however. There's no timeout like with Touch ID.
Nice Hardware, but BEWARE - You’ll probably install SPYWARE too!
I bought this device and it’s pretty neat hardware. Be aware, however, that using the headline feature of this device - the fingerprint scanner - requires you to install bloat- / spyware from Samsung on your system.
The actual application, once installed, will allow you to set up the security and to configure your password and fingerprints. What you won’t necessarily realise, unless you pay close attention during the installation process, is that it will also install a deamon that permanently runs in the background of your system (starting up automatically whenever you reboot the system). Not only does this eat up a bit of system ressources and battery (a small amount per deamon, but it adds up);
This deamon also monitors your activity and reports data about your system, your address, your language settings and your usage back to Samsung's servers. From there it’s shared with unidentified 3rd parties (as laid out in the license agreement that you will hastily accept when eager to use your new device).
This monitoring and the data transfer have absolutely no functional justification whatsoever. It does not provide you with any benefit or additional features. You cannot opt out of this, if you want to use the security features of the device, and it’s sufficiently sneaky for most people to be unaware of it. In my book, for all intents and purposes, this is SPYWARE. Of course no uninstall app is provided, leaving you to painstakingly identify all relevant files in the depths of the system folders of your MacOS or Windows and to delete them manually one by one (so let’s call the whole thing bloatware as well).
Not only is this COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE for a nearly £500 / EUR500 / $500 device, it is also really rude to not make this very clear to customers before they purchase a device. Once you own it, there is no way around it, if you want to use the advertised features.
Come on Samsung ! Really? I for one will not buy another one of these (otherwise lovely) devices, unless Samsung come to their senses and stop sneaking such stuff in under the radar!
Fantastic review. This drive is in a class of its own. Cheers
Are you sure its just the heat? Many cheaper SSDs, don't have any DRAM cache, they're often QLC or TLC and revert a small part of storage to SLC as pseudo cache, so data sits in this before being written to slower QLC. (The Crucial X8 definitely does this, and I'd be surprised in the T7 wasn't doing similar).
May I throw in a suggestion for a video here ? : => old iMacs vamping up Speeds & upgrading their speeds by running the MAC OS systems (with internal old HD's content included of course), from bootable, external, SSD drives, (again with the former HD's content of your internal HD of course) connected with the old iMacs built-in Thunderbolt 2 or USB 3.o or 3.1 or 3.2 GEN2, or even older firewire 800 Connection on the macs..etc, etc...). And to top it off, comparing it with running these older macs from a bootable 500Gb or 1Tb Sandisk or Lexar "SD Memory card",.... which works like a charm, by the way. In both scenarios using the internal Mac HD now as the backup drive for the time machine backup system... just to be safe... Food for Thought?
Interested to see how this would work as an external boot drive.
Authentication babe authentication firrst
Plus I think the drive is designed to meet your data storage/backup needs with security as a priority so I don't think this would be the choice if you're looking at performing tasks like booting from external devices which you're gonna be formating around.
So can you use it with apple devices then a gaming device
So the encryption and fingerprint sensor doesn't work on Android without PC?
Im looking to get the 500gb t7 for my Surface pro 7. Besides storage capacity what would are the differences between 500gb and 1T?
this ssd can make boot windows and have problem when boot at bios? because got fingerprint sensor...
Even my previous-generation Dell G7 laptop has Type-C. I don’t know if I will buy this though.
I purchased the Samsung T7 2TB without the touch button and the LaCie Rugged USB-C 5 TB for use with the MacBook Air M1should I format them APFS or macOS extended journaled?
It doesn't work for me in Big Sur with the T7 (MBP2020). I can only access the HD, I can't use the Touch program. Does not recognize the program, is in a loop, asks to install something that is already installed.