550MBps

Samsung's latest portable SSD can handle RAW 4K video

by 

Steve Dent

08.15.2017

We keep hearing about obtuse terms like "96-layer" and "V-NAND" for flash storage tech, but what does that mean for actual products? Samsung has given us a concrete answer with its latest portable SSD drive, the T5. It uses bleeding-edge 64-layer V-NAND and USB 3.1 gen 2 tech to generate impressive 540 MB/s transfer speeds, assuming your host computer can handle it. That's about as fast an external device of any kind that you can find right now.