

- SAMSUNG PORTABLE SSD T1 REVIEW PRO
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I will try to reformat the SSD using the Mac defaults and leave the shonky Samsung encryption to evolve outside my experience. It was only when I restarted that the SSD data miraculously re-appeared and am now transferring my precious data back to my old HD. Confidence in Samsung support now completely destroyed and I vowed to never trust Samsung with my data again. THAT WAS IT – no other data recovery tools recommended.
SAMSUNG PORTABLE SSD T1 REVIEW SOFTWARE
This is when despair set in when they started to ask if I had tried troubleshooting steps including running ANTI-VIRUS software (seriously?) and trying 3rd party data recovery tools. I logged out and back again and I had trouble holding panic back as I scrambled for the Samsung webchat support. This is when real horror took hold as only a small partition mounted with only the Samsung software. Samsungs Portable SSD T7 Touch scored our PCMag Editors Choice award and Best of the Year honors as the top external solid-state drive for 2020, largely on the strength of its fingerprint. I unplugged the SSD and tried the USB in the laptop directly as I remembered that some hard drives don’t like to share power with other USB devices from the same port. Imagine my concern to discover that nothing mounted on the desktop when I did so. However, when I arrived at work, I set up my laptop and plugged in the T1 SSD into the USB keyboard which also had other USB peripherals attached.

Last night I transferred 700GB+ onto it, erased the old external HD, and took it to work. However, the formatting of it didn’t allow Time Machine Back-ups, so I decided that I could at least use it as my archival hard drive for 20 years of data.
SAMSUNG PORTABLE SSD T1 REVIEW PRO
Just bought a 1TB one and had plans to use it as a super-fast TimeMachine Backup for my MacBook Pro running El Capitan. Now, looking back at my improvised Samsung 1TB external SSD that was created some time ago, we can see that things are surprisingly very similar in build this original design being a MyDigitalSSD OTG case housing the Samsung 1TB 840 pro mSATA SSD. To the right of that is a small light that displays a blue LED during disk activity. The external connector itself on the Portable SSD T1 is a USB 3.0 micro connector. Last but not least, we have the mSATA to USB3.0 adapter which contains the ASMedia 1153e USB3.0 controller with UASP support. The SSD itself consists of a green printed circuit board, a low power 2-core MGX controller (S4LN062X01-Y030), four pieces of Samsung 3D V-NAND flash memory with a product number of K9DMGB8S7C, and a Samsung DRAM cache memory chip. The exterior plastic case is secured by clips of which there is no easy way to get them apart, short of a great deal of frustration. The Samsung Portable SSD T1 is comprised of five pieces, three being the plastic exterior, a mSATA to USB3.0 bridge, and a Samsung 850 EVO 1TB mSATA SSD. We don’t need to speak of a certain 840 Pro where the pentalobe screw didn’t want to cooperate, resulting in my punching a hole clear through that SSD.

Perhaps the most valuable piece of advise we can offer if you are considering disassembly of the T1 is …DON’T DO IT! Personally, I love taking things apart and have been doing it for years and, given this love of ripping things apart, it is only natural that things sometimes just don’t go right, especially with Samsung SSDs.
