If you are one of the lucky owners of one of the MacBooks presented this year with USB-C connection, you may be interested to know that Samsung has just presented its external SSDs with this connection and called by the brand as SSD T3. Samsung already had other popular models of solid state drives like its T1 and now presents this smaller version, portable and shock resistant.
It also has a higher write / read speed than the T1 and a wide range of capabilities. Unlike T1, which used a USB 3.0 interface, the T3 uses the USB - C connection in its version 3.1 of the standard, which means that it is compatible with the latest MacBook models although these do not take advantage of all the speed they can deliver, remember that MacBook with USB - C connection They also support this version 3.1 Gen 1, that is, with transfer rates of up to 5 Gbps.
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Specifically, these Samsung T3 units have speeds of read and write up to 450MB / s, that is, much faster than the mechanical external drives most of us are used to and much closer to the internal drive speeds that already mount the majority of equipment of medium / high range.
The versions that Samsung has presented vary in capacities between the 250 GB of the input range up to 2 TB the highest capacity going through two intermediate versions of 500 GB and 1 TB of capacity respectively. These units have been billed as "something smaller than a business card" weighing less than 60 grams, despite including a new shock-resistant frame capable of withstanding 1500G of force and two meter drops.
Pricing has not yet been announced but the brand is expected to launch these units. during the month of February.