back to article Samsung revs flashy 1TB road warrior (then crawls away)

Samsung has used its 32-layer, 40nm V-NAND flash dies to produce its Portable SSD T1, a USB 3.0-connected drive for fast access to 250GB, 500GB or 1TB of flash capacity. As you would expect with a USB interface, the performance is dreadfully slow compared with an internal drive using SATA (or SAS) interfaces. Random read/ …

  1. Wam

    I'm glad you mentioned the size in the article - it looks like a large portable Bluetooth speaker!

  2. Irongut

    Smaller than a business card?

    My business cards are about 3 microns thick, how thick is this external SSD?

    1. A. H. O. Thabeth

      Re: Smaller than a business card?

      Isn't a micron a millionth of a metre?

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