


Who knows…maybe that just might have been the very first iteration of the Samsung portable SSD family! In fact, I used to show that drive off to anyone and everyone who would listen. Now, that might not seem like that much but for the coincidental size and shape of that portable SSD… and the fact that it is still running strong today. I still remember how impressed I was sitting there with the worlds smallest 1TB external SSD in my hand, one that had not only capacity and was super compact but also, it performed very well at 450MB/s with the latest in Superspeed technology. It consisted of ripping apart the MyDigitalSSD 256GB OTG Portable SSD I had just reviewed and throwing in the Samsung 1TB 840 EVO mSATA SSD we had reviewed prior. I can remember, long before Samsung’ release of their ‘T-family’ of portable SSDs, throwing together the worlds first ‘Samsung’ 1TB portable SSD in my office. It wasn’t always quite like this, however. It all comes into play with their newest 64-Layer V-NAND flash technology. Including a 2TB capacity into their newest T5 release, as they did for the T3 prior, one might say that 2TB is also the norm… but knowing what capacity they could fit into their palm-sized external T5 SSD would blow your mind. Our report today is on Samsung’ newest T5 2TB and 500GB SSDs, and at this point in the game, few might argue that Samsung sets the industry standard in all that is SSD.
