You no longer have to leave a (part of) the SSD unsecured to use it with all your devices. However, it can also be a completely different device such as your game console or smart television. This can be a PC to which you have no rights or which runs on an operating system for which there is no software.
In addition to convenience, unlocking with a fingerprint has another important advantage: you can also unlock the disk on devices on which you cannot install the software. By the way, Samsung cannot recover a password, the only thing that is possible is to reset the ssd completely, after which all data is gone. Unfortunately you cannot perform a factory reset yourself to start all over again, for that you need the help of Samsung. Although you can access your data with your fingerprint, you need the password if you want to change settings or disable encryption. The ssd then uses aes 256-bit hardware encryption for encryption. New is the possibility to also add one or more fingerprints. This is possible just like with its predecessor with a password. You can enable encryption for the SSD via the software.
You can connect the SSD directly to an Android phone with USB-C connection with the supplied cable.
In addition to the software for Windows, there is also an Android app. From the package, the ssd is unsecured and you will find the software for Windows and macOS on the disk. It’s not for nothing that the T7 has Touch in the name, because the most striking innovation compared to its predecessor is a fingerprint scanner on the housing.
That does not matter, of course, for use, but it does show that the portable ssd has really become a fully-fledged product. In the T7 Touch no separate ssd is used internally, all chips for both the ssd and the usb controller are placed on the same circuit board. And in top model Portable SSD X5 with Thunderbolt 3 interface, an m.2-ssd was placed in a similar way. The previous version, the Portable SSD T5, indeed contained a separate mSata SSD that was connected to a board that took care of the conversion to USB. The Portable SSD T7 Touch uses a nvme-ssd, but that is different than you might expect, not a separate m.2 copy. The T7 Touch uses a nvme-ssd, which means that the usb interface can be fully used. The predecessor Portable SSD T5 was also equipped with a Gen2 USB connection, but offered transfer speeds of up to 540 MB / s because the sata-SSD simply could not be used faster. The specified read and write speed of the T7 Touch is 10 MB / s. The ssd has a usb-c port that uses usb 3.2 Gen2 that offers a maximum transfer of 10 Gbit / s. The Samsung Portable SSD T7 Touch is equipped with a USB connection. If there is no disk activity for 10 seconds, the LEDs go out. With disk activity, the four sides of the square light up in turn as if it is a rotating ring. The ring around the fingerprint scanner contains four separate LEDs and serves as status LEDs. Nice is that, just like the case, it is black or silver. The first thing you notice is that a square fingerprint scanner is placed on the housing.
These are not very long with a length of 40 centimeters. In addition to the ssd you will find a usb-c and a usb-a connection cable in the package. However, the housing is somewhat thinner.
With a size of 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.8 cm, the T7 Touch is an inch longer than its predecessor. The housing of the Portable SSD T7 Touch is made of aluminum and comes in a black or silver version. Specified speeds Read speed 1050 MB / s, write speed 1000 MB / sĬrystalDiskMark Reading speed 1029.9 and write speed 960.14 MB / sĮncryption AES 256-bit hardware encryption Interface Usb 3.2 Gen2 (Usb-c connection) Samsung combines all those features in their new Samsung Portable SSD T7 Touch. In addition, many SSDs also have encryption. The ssd also offers many advantages as an external drive: small, energy-efficient and shock-resistant. The SSD has now displaced the hard disk as the storage medium in PCs.