The perfect portable drive, according to Samsung, should look good, weigh like a feather, not be afraid of bumps, be no larger than a regular flash drive, and have some special tricks that no other portable SSD on the market knows. For example, Samsung was the first company to launch the unique Samsung T7 portable SSD with an in-body fingerprint scanner and 256-bit AES hardware encryption.

If at work you have to constantly exchange tens of gigabytes of information, then models from the Portable series are an perfect replacement for outdated portable hard drives. Due to the lack of mechanical parts, Samsung Portable SSDs are not so afraid of bumps or crushes in a backpack, the data exchange speed here is 5 to 10 times higher, and the prices are not much higher.


The range of the Portable series is somewhat reminiscent of the Evo line - there is a clear continuity between the models, and new items come out less than once a year. All of them are based on 3D TLC NAND memory and communicate using a USB-C port. Older models with a USB-C gen1 port were limited to 540 MB / s data transfer speeds, while newer models with USB-C gen2 have doubled the speed.

For those users who are not satisfied with such features, Samsung periodically releases non-format portable SSDs a la X5. With 64-layer memory, eight-channel Samsung Phoenix controller and Thunderbolt protocol, this drive is capable of delivering up to 2100 Mbps during write operations and up to 2800 Mbps when reading files.