Samsung is gearing as much as launch a successor to its extremely well-liked transportable SSD, the Samsung T7 SSD, greater than three years after its launch.
This machine is without doubt one of the finest SSDsnot to mention one of many finest transportable SSDswe’ve ever reviewed. Nevertheless, regardless of a number of new entrants into the T7 household, together with the T7 Contact and the T7 Protectlately, it’s clear Samsung feels it’s time for a {hardware} refresh.
It’s simply as nicely, forward of the annual Black Friday gross sales in November, TechRadar Professional has noticed a lot of on-line retailers itemizing a 2TB model of the Samsung T9 SSD. This hasn’t formally launched, however could be on the way in which imminently.
Every little thing we all know concerning the Samsung T9 SSD
Samsung has revealed a bare-bones record of the T9 SSD with the product quantity MU-PG2T0B, which retailers together with PC12.fr and Grosbill Professional are utilizing.
We additionally noticed a model listed with the Australian retailer Microboss, however this has been taken down on the time of writing.
We haven’t seen any technical info but, nevertheless it does appear the SSD can be obtainable in a 2TB measurement. Microboss, nevertheless, went additional to say it boats learn and write speeds of as much as 2GB/s – making it twice as quick as its predecessor and one of many quickest transportable SSDs on the market if true.
The Samsung T7 SSD launched in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB fashions, suggesting we might even see the identical with the T9 at launch. Then, sooner or later, Samsung could broaden its measurement to 4TB, and even past, because it did with the T7 Protect.
There’s additionally each probability it may very well be cheaper at launch than the T7, with PC12.fr retailing the T9 SSD for €236.52 together with VAT (roughly $250) and Gosbill Professional retailing the machine for simply €199 (roughly $215) – although it’s unclear if that is inclusive of taxes.
The 2TB model of the T7, against this, was first obtainable for $370. This was bought alongside the 1TB model at $200 and the bottom 500GB version at $110.
A successor to the favored T7 could be welcome, contemplating this machine wasn’t even fitted with Thunderbolt 3 at launch. With Thunderbolt 4 now present in a few of the quickest SSDs, it’s doable Samsung could embody the usual in its forthcoming T9, though at this stage it is pure hypothesis.
We do not know when Samsung will launch the T9 SSD both however, if we had been to hazard a guess, it’s going to actually be out prematurely of Black Friday, which falls on 24 November this yr.
