Samsung T7 Touch Review – Fingerprint Secured USB C SSD

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Samsung is well known for their SSDs, whether it’s their older SATA drives, newer M.2 options, or their USB ones, so a new version must be the best thing around, right? Well, lets see. This is the T7 Touch, a USB C SSD that lets you secure your data with your fingerprint.

Lets start with a look at the thing, it’s impressively small for having up to 2TB capacity, easily fits in your palm or pocket, and has a single USB C port as it’s only connection. The other input, if you can call it that, is the fingerprint sensor and its surrounding LED status light. It comes in either silver, like this one, or black, and what’s great is that it comes with both a USB C to Type A cable, and Type C to Type C cable in the box, making it simple to use with both your PC and your phone.

So, the big deal then, since it’s literally in the name, is the “touch” feature. How does it work? How fast is it? Why would you use it? Well, it’s actually a really good feature. Say you are working on some top secret stuff on the go, well if you accidentally drop it, or leave it on a train, your data is pretty secure. 

You set it up with the included software, I’m doing it on Windows but you can do it on MacOS or via the Android App, and you’ve got the option of either leaving it unsecure, secured with just a password, or a password and a fingerprint. Once setup, every time you plug it in, it’ll be looking for a password or fingerprint, although if you plug into a device you don’t have the software installed on, you’ll still be able to use your fingerprint to unlock it, but would need to install the settings tool to unlock with a passcode.

Now, it does mount a partition when in “security mode”, but it’s a read only partition that has just the setup files for the settings apps so you can sign in – I’m no pen-tester, so I don’t know if there are any exploits that would let you jump partitions without unlocking it, but for the average prying eye, this is more than enough. It’s not quite as robustly secure as the datashur SSD I’ve checked out before, but I think these are for different target markets. 

So, it’s reasonably secure and stupidly easy to use, but does that security make it slow? Nope! Of course, the bottleneck here is the USB connection, up to USB 3.2 Gen 2 – or 10Gb/s – meaning a claimed 1GB/s read and write speed. In my testing, is can do close to 1GB on reads, but is more like 800MB/s writes, which is still great, but not quite what Samsung is claiming.

Doing my duplication test that stresses both reads and writes simultaneously, I was seeing around 300-350MB/s which is actually pretty good, considering it’s a USB C SSD. It’s fast enough that if you were a photo or video editor who was editing on the go, you could have all the footage and project on this so you could easily hand it over to another member of your production team. 

Pricing is a bit of a concern, it’s around £200 or $230 for this 1TB model, which while only $10 more than their 970 EVO Plus M.2 drive is almost £50 more than their own T5 which is also a 10gbps USB C connection, but of course a newer product, and that fingerprint reader, account for the difference there. Just know you are paying a bit of a premium for the new features and style when you pick one up, which by the way if you do want to, or just see pricing when and where you watch this, take a look at the link below. It’s an Amazon affiliate link that’ll take you to your local amazon store. 

So, what’s the verdict? I think it’s a great drive. While you do pay a bit of a premium, it’s not too overpriced and the extra piece of mind knowing your data is secured from most people is a nice-to-have, especially in business. For the home gamer, I’d get the T5 and save yourself some money, but if you even slightly use it for work, it seems like a no-brainer.

T7 Touch on Amazon: https://techteamgb.co.uk/t7touch
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