The T7 Touch can’t be touched (pun intended) when it comes to procuring the right balance between security, speed, portability and pricing. Military MIL-STD-810G 516.6 standard but is far slower than the T7. It is waterproof, shockproof and costs only $102 for the 960GB version. If you don’t care about either and just want an external solid state drive, then the ADATA SD600Q should be high on your list. At just under $167 at Amazon, it is far, far cheaper than the T7 Touch, although the price difference with the T7 is likely to be much smaller. It is a bit slower but retains the same form factor and design. If the Samsung brand is compulsory, then the T5 is the obvious choice if you can live without the fingerprint reader. On the other hand, it is FIPS 140-2 Level 2 Validated and comes with a number of security features that the T7 Touch doesn’t offer.
It is also far bigger and is much slower. The 1TB Fortress SSD from the former costs nearly twice the price of the equivalent T7 Touch. Instead, secure storage specialists like Apricorn Aegis or Datashur, will use a numeric keypad. If a military-grade security is an absolute must, then you won’t find a fingerprint reader anywhere. touch at this price point but then again, where it misses out on a knockout is that it doesn’t offer any IP68/MIL-STD-810G rating. If you want a device that offers seamless encryption, then the T7 Touch is hard to …. In real life we measured 1032 and 924MBps on CrystalDiskMark which is not that far from Samsung’s own readings The competition Samsung claims that the drive can achieve read/write speeds of up to 1.05GBps, which it says, is about twice what the T5 could reach. It can be a bit of an issue should you have to move the drive around. Note that the device needs to be connected at all times for the fingerprint reader to work. Here’s how the Samsung T7 Touch performed in our benchmark tests:ĬrystalDiskMark: 1032MBps (read) 924MBps (write)Ītto: 985MBps (read, 256mb) 897MBps (write, 256mb)ĪS SSD: 849MBps (seq read) 781MBps (seq write)