A Small Upgrade With a Significant Premium

Much like the original T1, the new Samsung T3 proved itself with internal SATA SSD-similar results, sustaining a throughput of 390MB/southward when downloading (reading) a unmarried big compressed file and 300MB/s when uploading (writing).

The T3 shines when treatment lots of pocket-sized files such every bit in our 'program' file transfer test which moves 6104 small not-compressed files totalling ii.75GB. The T3'south download performance was xl% greater than the fastest pollex drives we've seen and most four times faster than a conventional ii.5" hard bulldoze. Moreover, the upload tests showed the T3 to be v times faster than the quickest thumb drive we've tested and 42% faster than the Kingston HyperX Max 64GB portable SSD.

We've found that high performance thumb drives get hot after long periods of activity and while this doesn't seem to bear upon their functioning or reliability, it isn't exactly ideal. Fortunately, the T3's enclosure never became warmer than the ambience temperature and should that attain extreme levels, a 'Dynamic Thermal Guard' feature will actuate to protect your data and bulldoze.

The key upgrades brought by the T3 are its USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-C connector along with a more durable enclosure featuring shock-resistant metal case with an internal frame.

Besides that, not much has changed here and it seems foreign to call this the T3 given the express changes.

The suggested pricing of the new T3 serial would encounter it costing more than the electric current T1 models. For example, the 1TB model that we tested has an MSRP of $430 which would make it a lilliputian over 20% more expensive than the $350 T1 variant. That seems similar a heck of a lot for a new example and a Type-C USB connector.

Hopefully the drives come in well under the MSRP, especially considering a standalone 850 Evo 1TB mSATA bulldoze costs just $300.

Regardless, if you're after a meaty, high-speed, Type-C storage device and then Samsung's Portable SSD T3 serial is hard to beat.

Pros: Outpaces pollex drives and rival SSDs, super lite, runs cool, features USB iii.i Type-C and a metal case versus the T1's Blazon-A connector and plastic example.

Cons: A tad slower than the T1 in some tests yet the 1TB T3 is priced 20% over the T1 at $430 versus $350 (not to mention the 1TB 850 Evo mSATA at $300).