Quite a fast, little SSD - USB C
Has now and again been sub $200, however still a good price.
Will have an AU Warranty.
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Its cheaper to go to Bing lee ebay and add HGTSNS - $198 for C&C (2TB)
Thanks cancelled Amazon order and bought from BingLee
If you don't have a Bing Lee near you, you could go to OW and have them Price Beat Amazon it to bring it down to $206.
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/samsung-2t…
Bought one off Amazon UK via AU. Used it for back ups, so not heavily used, just every so often copying files onto it. After maybe a year, noticed significant drop in write speed and other oddities. Downloaded Samsung Magician scanned it a few times, eventually found some bad sectors. Returned to Amazon for full refund.
Heard something about Samsung having a bad batch of nand, not sure if I got caught up with it.
YMMV
This or Crucial X8? (X8 generally reviewed as faster)
Personally perfer the T7, it is smaller in size in comparison to the X8 and I use on both Win and MacOS - no issues. Comes out of the box formatted as exFAT so its good to go for both OS's.
exFAT is not the best choice for portable SSDs. It lacks journaling support, making it susceptible to file corruption from power loss, bad ejects, and unsafe shutdowns. While it generally shouldn't cause issues, it's something to be aware of.
File systems like NTFS and APFS, which include journaling, keep records of changes. In the case of file corruption, logs can be used to recover data.
I learned this the hard way!
Along with less customer formatting and compatibility issues (ie. returns), part of the reason they preformat it exFAT is likely because "supposedly" journalling file systems reduce SSD life quicker.
I think this is theory only and best drive/data life and experience will result from ideal file system for application (Win NTFS/lin EXT4/Apple APFS).
But it's the only format that can be read and written to across all the different platforms (macOS, Windows, Linux) that can hold files that bigger than 4GB!
FAT32 has 4GB limit, NTFS is windows only, APFS is Mac only, etc…
I know this is not a reflection of the SSD 2TB, but all of my Samsung metal silver flash drives have failed.
" but all of my Samsung metal silver flash drives have failed."
damn that sucks. was looking out for a deal on one of those because I wanted all full metal case (my experience with 128GB Sandisk is the plastic loop shattered making it easy to lose so unusable - I found out it's literally hollow and uses thinner plastic than take away containers).
maybe it's a temp management issue on the Samsung? you would think metal would dissipate heat better, but maybe the entire case heats up and works against it or something.
Thanks OP Had a $10.00 voucher as well