{"id":8426,"date":"2016-03-10T20:12:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T04:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2016-03-10T20:12:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T04:12:52","slug":"samsung-t3-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/samsung-t3-ssd\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung T3 &#8211; 1TB External USB 3.0 SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1U5UObw\" target=\"_blank\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/samsung_t3_ssd.png\" alt=\"Samsung t3 ssd\" title=\"samsung_t3_ssd.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"416\" height=\"316\" style=\"float:right; margin:5px;\" \/><\/a>I mentioned a few weeks ago that I&#8217;d decided to move my giant photo library of doom (<sup>tm<\/sup\n> Donald Burr) off of my Mac and onto an external drive. I didn&#8217;t want to sacrifice any speed, so I  bought the Samsung T3 1TB USB 3 drive with USB-C connectivity to accomplish this goal.  As I&#8217;d hoped, this drive is wicked fast.  Let&#8217;s go through some stats, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>The drive is spec&#8217;d out at 450MB\/sec.  We all love the free Blackmagic Disk Speedtest, so we&#8217;ll take a look at that first.  Blackmagic showed reads of 421MB\/sec and writes of 365MB\/sec.  I think that&#8217;s the closest I&#8217;ve ever seen a drive perform to its rated specs!  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/blackmagic_t3_speedtest.png\" alt=\"Blackmagic t3 speedtest\" title=\"blackmagic_t3_speedtest.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"432\" style=\"float:left;margin:5px;\"\/>Remember that the Blackmagic test is designed to test your drives to see if you can use it for real time video editing, not editing photos so this isn&#8217;t a perfect test but it&#8217;s still interesting.  The T3 did perform quite well for all but the highest level video editing which was pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s look at a more practical application for most people listening.  I moved my 400GB Photo Library over to the drive, and it started in the high 200s, then peaked at 398MB\/sec, and at the very last few minutes of the copy it dropped back down a bit under 200MB\/sec.  The entire 400GB moved in a little under 34 minutes.  That&#8217;s amazing, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>I can definitely say that I recommend the <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1U5UObw\" target=\"_blank\" >Samsung T3 1TB USB 3 SSD<\/a>.  As a reminder from last week, that will run you $428 on Amazon right now.  They have the 500GB model going for $218 and 250GB for $130 if you aren&#8217;t as much of a disk hog as I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned a few weeks ago that I&#8217;d decided to move my giant photo library of doom (tm Donald Burr) off of my Mac and onto an external drive. I didn&#8217;t want to sacrifice any speed, so I bought the Samsung T3 1TB USB 3 drive with USB-C connectivity to accomplish this goal. As I&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[538,556,450],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-samsung","tag-speed","tag-ssd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8428,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions\/8428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}