Ever since T1’s unveiling at CES 2015 we’ve been eagerly waiting to get our hands on this exciting new storage device. We can totally understand why this drive would be aimed at professionals who need fast, mobile storage at their fingertips. Neither capacity nor transfer rates are a limiting factor with T1.

Although Windows 8 or a UASP enabled motherboard will need to be available to realise the full potential of T1, the data transfer rates are very pleasing indeed. During our testing we put T1 through a series of sequential benchmarks to push the limits of the drive, some premium, internal solid state drives struggle to cope with such tests but T1 took it within its stride. Furthermore, you’ll notice that most of the write performance figures are somewhat stronger than read performance – usually this is the other way around with read performance being the dominant entity, but Samsung has employed “Turbo Write Technology” which causes a substantial boost in performance, even during sequential operation.



By having such a compact enclosure, T1 is easy for consumers to carry with them whilst on-the-move. The build quality of this dainty piece of kit is also something to admire, Samsung hasn’t cut any corners with this product – it looks great and it performs just as great too.

We’re informed that current pricing would indicate that the various capacities of T1 can be purchased for: 250GB - £136.99 GBP, 500GB - £228.99 GBP, 1TB - £456.99 GBP. Desktop, internal SSDs are notably cheaper than this but the overriding feature with T1 is that it is portable. Users will struggle to find a drive offering such capacities and delivering such performance.

Although small in size, Samsung’s Portable SSD T1 is a monolith in mobile storage. It offers large capacities with class-leading performance and quality/security to boot.