Smaller SSD drives like this can't offer the same level of storage capacity as some of the larger mechanical hard disk drives of course, but you can pick up the Samsung T7 SSD with 500GB, 1TB or 2TB of space (with the price going up accordingly). It's a quiet, cool external storage solution that you can just plug in and forget it's there – perfect if you're working on the go and want to take all your files with you.
As this is an SSD and there are no fans on the unit, noise wasn't a problem either. Samsung says that it's built some special thermal management into the T7 SSD to help keep temperatures down, and we didn't notice the drive getting hot at all during our time with it.
To give you some idea, transferring around 5GB of data from a Windows computer (with USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports) to the Samsung T7 SSD took around xxx seconds in our testing – this is a speedy drive that won't leave you waiting around for long when it comes to getting your files moved across. The actual real transfer rates that you're going to get will vary, depending on what you've got the Samsung T7 SSD plugged into and the sort of data you're moving across. In terms of these kinds of external drives, that's just about as good as you're going to get over USB at the moment. USB 3.2 Gen 2 is supported, if you've got the cables and the computer ports to work at those maximum speeds, while the top read and write speeds you can get from this drive are 1,050 MB/s and 1,000 MB/s respectively. The Samsung T7 SSD boasts some rather impressive specs, thanks mainly to the PCIe NVMe solid-state drive technology inside its shell.