Unlike USB memory sticks and SD cards is in Samsung's SSD T1 to a full solid state drive in miniature.
Accordingly high is the Euro-Pro-gigabyte ratio. I paid almost 170 euros for my T1 with 250 GB of storage, including shipping. For 1 Euro is thus obtained 1.47 GB or vice versa 1 GB costs 68 cents. The package content includes in addition to the usual small manual only a USB 3.0 cable. The length I find the right place with about 11 cm, since I mainly use solid state drive to the notebook.
In return, the really very little storage medium in 1.8-inch format that in direct comparison even smaller and lighter fails as my external Samsung S1 Mini enthusiastic 1.8-inch hard drive with 250 GB is also (by the way, sometimes over has cost 100 euros). Since these little over 30 MB also comes because of the USB 2.0 connection / s data transfer, this is only used in rare cases. The housing quality is in spite of the many plastic still okay. The rough structure ensures a good grip and with about 30 grams of extremely low weight does not preclude a mobile use.
Compared to the Samsung S1 Mini Samsung SSD T1 works naturally faster. According to the data of the manufacturer promises up to 450 MB / s when reading and writing. Who still uses an older operating system without UASP support, according to the manual must reckon with a lower speed. After setting remain about 230 GB (net) left to use.
The achievable speed I've tested the tool AS SSD under Windows 8.1:
Seq. Read: 428.44 MB / s write: 410.20 MB / s
4K Read: 23 MB / s Write: 38.57 MB / s
4k 64Thrd Read: 132.78 MB / s Writing: 95.12 MB / s
Read Access Time: 0.1 ms Write: 0.1 ms
On occasion I test with AJA even performance on Mac and push the results here after.
Edit 02/11/2015:
With AJA Mac (exFAT) tested,
will
397 MB / s when reading
315 MB / s write
achieved.
Mac OS Extended format is the reading rate with
395 MB / s or less unchanged,
the write rate increases to something
344 MB / s.
The test values reached so not all the results in Windows, but the drive is now also no longer dewy
out-of-the-box but has already been used relatively intensively.
The heat development remains even after prolonged use in lukewarm area. Not to compare with an older ADATA USB Flash Drive (16 GB), which is questionable hot after a few minutes.
Conclusion
Samsung has made a great external memory to bounce back with the SSD T1. The performance is impressive and the storage capacity of 250 GB version perfectly adequate for me. Alternatively, however, 500 GB or 1 TB are available. For me, the SSD T1 is due to the high mobility of the right successor to replace previously used sticks and memory cards. In the end, these were only temporary solutions to replace my somewhat outdated 1.8-inch Samsung S1.
Edit 02/11/2015
Even after more than a week of intensive use like Samsung T1 extremely well. The small storage drive runs like clockwork. Use the drive on Macs and PCs, and had no problems so far. However, Samsung has warned that it may come with the changing use of Macs and PCs to the fact that certain data can only be read. Has not yet occurred to me. Password protection, I have, as it is used as a mobile drive on the go, of course enabled. Terms of Yosemite Mac and Windows 7/8 with respect to the password protection so far also without incident.
Edit 15/04/2015
Reliable, fast and extremely mobile. These characteristics come to mind every day anew postiv eye. Especially in mobile use this storage solution is due to the ultra-compact dimensions for me indispensable. Also like to be the problems functioning password security.
