High five for samsung’s new solid state drive. You can support the site directly via Paypal donations ☕. TNR earns Amazon affiliate commissions from qualifying purchases.Semi-Annual Sale: Save $60 on the Inspiron 24 All-in-One.All benchmarks were performed on a Surface Pro 4 using a USB 3.0 interface. The external SSDs and fast USB flash drives were tested in both CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2 and the earlier CrystalDiskMark 3.0.4 in 64-bit mode with five repeats and 500MB file sizes. Sandisk Extreme Pro USB 3.1 Solid State Flash Drive.What’s perhaps even better for consumers, though, is that this competition is driving prices down, making fast storage something that anyone can have. While this isn’t quite enough to make RAIDed fast drives obsolete just yet, the traditional, spinning-plate 250MB/s dual HDDs will only be around for another few years at most. The latest external SSDs benefit from some hardware innovations that give sequential read and write speeds of 400-500MB/s - some 100-200MB/s faster than the first generation fast flash drives. But it’s been a few years since then and the portable SSD market has matured into an appealing category, attracting the efforts of big hard drive players like WD and LaCie, and even sporting a few second- or third-generation drives from SanDisk and Samsung, respectively.
PRIOR TO SAMSUNG releasing its T1 external hard drive, portable solid state drives (SSDs) were a little expensive to be a particularly appealing alternative to portable external hard disk drives (HDDs). Portable ssds have become faster and more affordable over the past couple of years, but are they still too flashy for your average consumer?
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