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Review: Samsung T5 Portable 1TB USB 3.1 External SSD

Posted on March 16, 2019

If you’re like me, you have probably dreamed about having a portable USB flash drive that can store as much data as a hard drive yet transfer data back and forth at SSD-like speeds.

Up until now, that dream was little more than a fantasy.

Well, you can stop dreaming…

The new (and totally awesome) Samsung T5 Portable 1TB USB 3.1 External SSD (#ad) provides a whopping 1TB of storage, and when plugged into a USB 3.1 port it’s so fast that you’ll be hard-pressed to tell that you aren’t using an internal SSD! [Read more…]

Q&A: Should I buy an external USB Solid State Drive or an external USB Hard Drive?

Posted on August 25, 2016

External USB Solid State Drive (SSD) — (#ad)

Question from Calvin T.: I use a Gateway DX4860-UB20P desktop computer at work and I just purchased a brand new Dell Ultrabook to use at home and while I’m out on the road.

I’d like your opinion on the best way to transfer large files between these two PCs.

I’d rather not use a large USB flash drive because I’ve had a lot of trouble with files getting corrupted on them in the past, and I really need something that’s more reliable.

I was planning to buy a 1TB external USB hard drive, but I happened to stop in at Office Depot yesterday and noticed that they now sell external USB Solid State Drives.

It seems to me like an external SSD would be the perfect solution. Do you agree, or is there some reason why you’d recommend an external hard drive instead?

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]