Samsung T9 Portable SSD Review - 20Gb/s Performance in Your Pocket?

Video Chapters
00:00 - The Start
01:05 - How to Spot a Good USB?
02:15 - USB Names and Speeds ARE A MESS!
04:10 - What IS USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 and WHY?
05:10 - Unboxing the Samsung T9
07:27 - Samsung T9 Design
10:14 - Samsung T9 Hardware
11:00 - Seriously, Why Not USB 4 or TB4?
15:15 - Mobile Connections with the Samsung T9
17:58 - AJA Tests of the Samsung T9
22:19 - Samsung Magician Review
25:00 - What Happens when you connect the drive to a TB3, USB 3.2 Gen 2 or TB4 Port?
25:40 - Verdict and Conclusion of the Samsung T9 Review

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[WesPerry]

My big question is, does it work well on a Mac? Their Apple Silicon machines have a long history of not properly interfacing with 20GB/s devices, generally only handshaking at either 10GB/s or 40GB/s and nothing in between.

[PCFixITStanmore-toyd]

Any idea when 8TB T9 will be coming out?

[joshmannbroadcast]

My product manager brain has a crazy reasoning for the lack of a thunderbolt port here, and I'm a prime suspect. I just purchased the T9. The SanDisk G40 I wanted to use for my iPhone 15 Pro - ProRes 4K60 would not connect, claiming in the error message, "Thunderbolt accessories are not supported on this iPhone". First of all, I'm using a thunderbolt cable to connect the G40 and it worked fine with the Crucial X6, I just had terrible frame drops using that SSD for longer periods of time (more than 10min) and reflected the transfer speeds with big files on my Mac which prompted me to find a faster drive. I'm hearing online that iPhones can't send enough power certain drives, possibly thunderbolt drives.

As much as I wanna believe this could be solved with a software update on Apple or SanDisks side. I fear Samsung knew about the power limitations of the iPhone 15 Pro way ahead of time and planned to opt-out thunderbolt ports so they sold more units once the new iPhone 15 released. Meaning Apple may not have plans on supporting those thunderbolt connections or higher power requirements, which would suck. I was super excited to use that drive.

It's a stretch, but the market for iPhone is massive and average people like me never really considered doing all this research on SSDs until Apple talked about it. Funny enough, I thought we were moving further away from needing physical storage of things but here we are.

Like I said, this is a wild claim, up for discussion!

[SocialWorkProfessor]

Sorry to hear about the cold. Get well soon.

[renrickdash]

@nascompares $440 for the Samsung T9 and $290 for the Crucial X10. Both 4TB SSD are USB 3.2 Gen2x2. Why is the the Samsung $150 more? Additionally the X10 has 100MB/s faster read speed.

[HK-NYC]

Did you get a chance to use T9 on a Mac or MacBook Pro ?

[NahuelMS]

Look at the size of your TB drive, is triple de size. That is because it generates more heat, that's probably why samsung don't use the 40gb interface, it is really difficult to make it work in a tiny case like the one from t9.

[techknowbabble]

I personally believe No Tech company is going to release a perfect product when they can release a few version in between that people will still buy and will make the just a bit more richer...

[jGRite]

I looked up the price on Amazon, and Samsung's official store has the price or size capacity wrong. I see a 1TB T9 for $439 ready for pre-order. Hopefully they fix that.

[dabbridges]

With regards to the interface and data transfer speeds, how well does the T9 deal with temperature during sustained transfers, and what difference - if any - does the lower speed make? (i.e. if USB4 was implemented, would the drive throttle, or require a cooling fan?)

[ShaneMcGrath.]

Any new rumours of a DS1824+ release date?
It's just too close now for me to pull the plug on a 1821+ unless they significantly drop in price.

[US_Joe]

Heads up guys. I bought 2 2tb T-7's @$400 and they both failed in about 3 mos! Samsung would not recover the drives. They replaced both of them with the newer ones which are now half the price I originally spent. BTW: There were no S.M.A.R.T. indications leading to a failure. Obviously I will not use these drives. I now just use ext. NVME's in an enclosure. DO NOT BUY SAMSUNG!!! $800 in the hole - Thanx Robbie 👍

[blahorgaslisk]

Also not to confuse with the Samsung K9 Thunder...

[ramman]

When I worked in a college years ago the first gen usb 3 ugdn 2 nits from Samsung were notorious for the interface connectors to break leaving students panicking after they just bundled it in there bag without removing the connector I picked up a usb3 thunderbolt unit which also suffered the same I ended up opening it to find just a blue drive inside which cost for the capacity almost double the price since then I just get a 3rd party enclosures grab some thermal grizzly graphine sheets and a decent drive on sale time since then I’m a happy camper and will never go back to full cost external

[He.wrote.danger]

New to portable ssd's here...can you transfer files back and forth between mobile and ssd??

[iZacq]

Nice Good Info 👍🏻
But is there another External SSD with higher speeds ?
Time 15:15 Whats the SSD Speed on S23 Ultra/Fold5 & iPhone 15 pro max ?
Is it same as T9 or higher/lower ?
Time 24:23 Thats the reason i asked the above Question

[mlatief]

Hi
I will use this on iPhone 15 pro max the 4 TB version.
Do you think the speed will be ok
Thanks for the great explanation

[Lucy-dkcz]

I have a Sandisk Pro-G40 sitting in a box which I am too worried to use with mission critical data. No idea if it’s impacted by Sandisks recent issues....

[mrblack]

Is the samsung evo 870 good enough for nas ? Or streaming

[singhmandip]

Does Samsung T9 work with iPhone and android phones