Less than twenty years back when I bought my first desktop, a Compaq Pressario, a teenager from the neighbourhood walked in and said, ‘That’s a terrible waste of money, uncle. What will you do with such a huge hard drive. No one will ever need 3.2 GB.’ I wish this fellow is reading this post on portable drives that now range from 250 GB to 2 TB. So those who intend telling buyers that 2 TB is what they do not need, remember the story of the teenager I’ve just told.
Everyone has the need for large storage devices and in the world of gaming, media, movie production, architecture, and design to name a few, this need is only going to grow. Yes, that’s the sort of data consumption graph that is valid today. The travel enthusiast, the photography lover, the student, the professional, the careerist, the writer, the teacher, the salesman… everyone is literally wanting real-time data reference to help him move ahead in life. Even data is getting heavier with so much multi-media and high resolution output becoming the desired levels.
The technology market has no alternative but to find its way to the best alternatives available because the consumer is no longer happy with any storage device. He wants something that is slim and compact in design, has blazing-fast read/write speeds, does a really quick transfer of data, has on-the-go traits, favours compatibility with laptops, desktops, TVs and android devices, is shock resistant, and has hardware encryption. Now if I were in-charge of purchase in an office and were to float a tender for storage devices, these are the parameters I would quote… the only problem here is that right now it is only the Samsung Portable SSD T3 devices that will qualify. Well, fair enough, the right stuff needs to reach the consumer at the right time.
Samsung Portable SSD T3, a premium, palm-sized, external solid state drive (SSD) offers multi-terabyte (TB) storage capacity. Equipped with Samsung’s proprietary Vertical NAND (V-NAND) and SSD TurboWrite technology, the T3 drive provides advanced performance, enabling consumers, content creators, business and IT professionals, to quickly and easily store and transfer large multimedia content across a variety of devices. Mr. Sukesh Jain, Vice-President, Samsung India Electronics, told me, ‘With digital content on the rise, consumers, content creators, and business professionals are in need of a high-speed, reliable and secure storage which is accessible from multiple devices such as PCs, smartphones and tablets. Samsung is leading the way in redefining and revolutionizing the external storage market with the success of Portable SSD T1 launched in 2015. We will set new benchmarks with the new Portable SSD T3 without compromising on storage capacity, style and security.’
Obviously then, a device that weighs about 51 grams and measures 74x58x10.5 mm, has read/write speeds up to 450 megabytes per second (MB/s), goes with a USB 3.0 super speed interface and is up to 4X faster than external HDDs, bears a shock up to 1,500G and resistant up to 2 meter drop test, and has AES-256 bit hardware encryption is what suits both the lay as well as the pro consumer today.
What matters in our fast-paced lives full of information that needs to be read, assimilated, and creatively used, is the entry of a powerful storage device always with us and this is what makes us future-ready.
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Samsung Portable SSD T3
Mr. Sukesh Jain, Vice-President, Samsung India Electronics launching the device
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This post was published in ‘The Education Post‘ dated 23 May 2016:
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Arvind Passey
21 May 2016
