Samsung Portable SSD T5 introduced

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250GB, 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB models. Built with the latest Samsung 64-layer V-NAND.

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540MB/s sounds suspiciously like it's still using a sloppy and inefficient SATA to USB bridge, certainly not getting close to the potential of 10Gbps USB 3.1 Gen 2 which it's supposedly capable of.

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

540MB/s sounds suspiciously like it's still using a sloppy and inefficient SATA to USB bridge, certainly not getting close to the potential of 10Gbps USB 3.1 Gen 2 which it's supposedly capable of.

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I gave up looking for NVMe external caddies, as of July 2016 they didn't make any stand alone, I had a slight glimmer of hope then realised it's just the T3 with the newer drive, save your money.