We’ve seen a trend with many of these new Gen 2x2 drives, where sales and marketing have argued that if a drive is twice the speed, it should be double the cost, irrespective of the capacity. It appears that Samsung has fallen victim to some of this logic, making the T9 dramatically more expensive than the T7 or T7 Shield. In the scope of Gen 2x2 drives, the T9 is up there with the best options and is comparable with the performance we’ve seen from the Crucial X10 Pro and Kingston XS2000. The Samsung SSD T7 Shield 4TB is the largest drive in the T7 range and offers videographers a powerful storage choice when recording or editing footage. The new drive follows the same form factor as the T7 Shield I looked at last year and, for the most part, is identical in dimensions, weight and performance. The only major difference is that the new release has a 4TB capacity.

The specifications of the testbed are summarized in the table below: The 2021 AnandTech DAS Testbed Configuration In short, Magician 8.0 sounds useful but hardly comprehensive, but whatever it contains isn’t reviewable by us at this time.The review compares the Samsung Portable SSD T7 Shield 2TB against the other 2TB drives reviewed earlier using our latest direct-attached storage test suite. We have also added the Samsung Portable SSD T7 Touch 1TB to the mix, even though it doesn't make for an apples-to-apples comparison. The list of PSSDs considered in this review is provided below. admin.brightcove.com, metrics.brightcove.com, players.brightcove.net, sadmin.brightcove.com, vjs.zencdn.net clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 54-75-41-190_s-23-203-249-90_ts-1604429433-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 54-75-41-190_s-23-203-249-90_ts-1604429456-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 54-75-41-190_s-92-123-140-11_ts-1604427291-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 54-75-41-190_s-92-123-140-11_ts-1604427412-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, 54-75-41-190_s-95-101-129-96_ts-1604425019-clienttons-s.akamaihd.net, My thoughts about the Samsung SSD T7 Shield 4TB remain the same as they did for the T7 Shield I looked at last year. Again I love the size of the small drive, which makes it easy to clip to the side of a cageor dangles from your computer’s USB without straining the port, although not advised.

What we can say is that the previous release, Magician 7.0, doesn’t recognise the T9 or offer any firmware updates for it. The Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD matches the T7 Shield when it comes to performance and capacity. It comprehensively undercuts it when it comes to sheer value for money. It is significantly larger and its flashy orange color may not be to everybody’s taste but we do appreciate the carabiner and the fact that there’s a 4TB model as well. IP6X Test condition: Device was exposed to 2kg/m³ of active dust with a pressure under 2kPa for 8 hours in a vacuum chamber.

One useful test we perform is the AJA System test, as we repeat the same test with a 1GB file and a 64GB one. The difference in performance between these two file sizes often reveals how the drive handles a sustained write. All NAND drives have a cache limit where the write speed drops to that of the NAND modules, and that can be as low as 400MB/s, irrespective of the interface used.