Even cheaper than the price yesterday and it's local stock, so long as you're happy with the Titan Gray colour.
CamelCamelCamel.
Yes historical low.
I cancelled my red one for $199 and got this instead. This is cheaper, better colour and local delivery.
But anything red = faster so surely it's the superior colour!
But $12!! Can get 2 packs of chips lol.
same.
I appreciate this being referred to as a historic low. Many OzBargainers will say 'best ever' and yet the future prices are unknown.
We all like specific tech to get cheaper and cheeaper but lets be real here. This aint gonna get to $1 or $2 each. The manufacturer will put out a new and improved product to replace this so they can charge more ore less this ballpark figure.
Oh sure best ever should say best price yet. But thats just being pedantic.
@ $137.90
For an extra fiddy… you'd be silly not to get the 2TB!
nah i got the 1Tb for $123.11 (pricematching at OW) it has been sub $130 a few times.
I heard of people buying a desktop SSD and an enclosure to it into a portable SSD. Is that any cheaper than buying a portable SSD or is it just about the performance?
Longer warranty period, easier repurpose.
Depends which enclosure and drive you buy.
If you get an enclosure with a good chipset, you should be able to get similar read/write speeds as this Samsung.
What's the true difference between the Shield version and the normal T7 one? Is there a huge performance difference or just the extra protection?
Just the protection AFAIK
Apparently the Blackmagic digital video community says otherwise - the T7 has a very bad rep among them for poor sustained write performance once you exceed its cache limits (they actually preferred the older T5 for that reason), but supposedly the T7 Shield is better and was put on the official supported devices list.
Regular users probably wouldn't notice the difference unless they were continually writing to the drive at near-full capacity, though (like using it as a daily backup drive).
How interesting - thankyou
T7 uses 5th Gen 92L/96T V-NAND. T7 Shield uses 6th Gen 128L/136T V-NAND.
In terms of performance difference, the Shield has up to 15% lower power consumption and up to 10% faster transfer speeds, most noticeable during reads and smaller writes that don’t fill the cache. For sustained writes, expect around 700MB/s on the T7 and slightly faster on the Shield.
T7 is noticeably thinner, but Shield has a rubberised cover which may be beneficial if you expect to drop it.
I only get around 650MB/s write, is this normal? Thought it would be much faster than this. The port is Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 as well… so not sure why it’s so slow
What are you copying from?
Have you got another USB 3.2 port you can try?
My T5 transfers at 500MB/s, T7 should be double.
See here for how to enable Performance mode/write caching: https://youtu.be/fZLrEO9tQDc
Same, I only get 640 Write, 685 Read on MacOS. I have the 1TB version.
See the comment above from Guppy, the T7 gets poor sustained write performance once its cache has been exhausted. This could be what you're seeing if you're copying large files.
Sounds about right - maybe 10% slower than I’d expect. These are DRAMless and once the cache is full they tend to top out at around 700MB/s.
If you’re using a Mac, I’ve found I routinely get around 700MB/s sustained writes via APFS - but slower for HFS+, exFAT and ext4. If using with Mac only, format as APFS for optimal speeds, otherwise exFAT.
Slower than expected sustained writes could be the filesystem, the type or size or amount of files being transferred - or any number of other things.
Does this support Price match in Officeworks?
OOS online so maybe not….
Yes, just managed to get it price matched.
Bargain! Thanks
Okay so I ordered the UK one last week for $230 and this pops up…
Would this kinda thing be what people use to expand the storage space on a Desktop (Always attached to it) kinda computer? I'm considering getting replacement Mac this year and don't really care if I have internal or external storage so long as it's reliable for photo's and videos, and such, and so forth, as the crow flies etc.
A LaCie or an internal hdd would probably be better value for GB but otherwise yeah
A LaCie
Theres a blast from the past i rarely hear about. Mine is so old it had firewire ports. Who remembers those ports? LOL.
I recently opened my Porsche designed Lacie drive to find an IDE hard drive 😂
@lachhelix: Iomega. Theres another blast from the past. Still have my LS floppy disk drive and my iomega zip drives.
The T7 would be perfect for that, yes. It's not the highest performance SSD especially if you're copying very large files all the time, but for general purpose use it is more than speedy enough.
Oh no. ETA on my order says "Arriving 31 Mar - 29 Apr".
showing in stock but delivery eta 1-2 months
Not anymore, I saw the same and then next minute OOS
bugger. was in my cart . had gone off to find my wallet/CC and now its OOS again
Thanks for sharing this. Decent price! I guess this is historical low for Samsung T7 2TB?