RESUME Today’s technology delivers fast, pocket-sized speeds. Investing in a piece of storage that can also be used for more than just a backup is more than convenient. The Samsung T5 external SSD is recommended for a good backup of a nice collection of music.

PLUS POINTS Versatile Reliable Format Speed

We listen music with z all more and more via the various streaming services. Spotify, Tidal, Soundcloud, Apple Music – you name it. Sometimes it seems as if no one has any music carriers at home. Or is it?

There is a discrepancy to begin with. The audio enthusiast knows that music via those streaming services is often compressed enormously. A streaming service for – and point of sale for – music that does focus on audio quality is for example Qobuz. It is also possible to buy high quality music there. And there are plenty of other places online where it is possible to buy high quality music. Many of us at the editorial office therefore have a server or NAS at home for the storage of that music. We can also use it as a source to stream music over the network. A common set-up among music and film lovers, but it does require a backup: a backup!

Backup Importance As a hard drive in your server or NAS decides to retire, then you can wave to your music. You will not get it back. A possibility to at least partially overcome this is with a Raid configuration, but it is best to always make a backup of your valuable digital collection. And preferably several, because one backup is not a backup.

For that reason today we are going to get started with a Samsung T5 portable SSD. Samsung has been the market leader in SSD storage for several years. The brand’s Evo series has also won multiple awards. The Samsung T5 is very small in size. The device literally fits in your palm. Thanks to the housing, the T5 is shockproof, password-protected and uses Samsung V-NAND flash memory.

The use of large, heavy and often slow mechanical hard drives is no longer entirely of this time. This is mainly aimed at the really large amounts of storage in servers. The demand for faster information transfer, on the other hand, is growing day by day. The Samsung T5 has a USB3.1 gen2 connection and a transfer speed of up to 540 mb per second. This makes it possible to watch or listen to music and films directly from an external SSD. Running an operating system externally is possible, or games.

SSD Vs. HDD So what are the advantages of an SSD compared to an HDD? A Solid State Drive no longer has any moving parts. It is stored on flash memory chips. That provides much more speed. The energy consumption is very low, an SSD is more reliable and has little or no noise production.

An HDD or Hard Drive Disk is a magnetic metal disk. It is ‘written’ and read by an arm, like on a record player. Since it is mechanical, it does make noise. Searching and writing is also done physically, so slowly. The energy consumption is also a lot higher.

For this review we are going to back up Make a small 747 gigabytes of music. We connect the Samsung T5 to the Synology for this 215 + NAS. Next, we need to format the external drive so that we can use the T5 external SSD. We select all music and copy it to the T5 SSD. A real life test, just as you could use the external SSD at home. We can see that the time changes quite a bit.

Samsung has developed this external SSD for a large target group. Because the T5 is handy, you can take it with you. The option to protect the SSD with a password via an Apple or Windows computer will also appeal to many people. Looking at the performance, we see that a small file (10 mb) at a rate of 526 mb per second is written. For larger files – read: a file of 5 gigabytes or larger – we arrive at a 421 mb per second. The reading speed is also comparable. Those are great scores, for impatient people.

The full music backup finally takes just under four hours. That is quite fast, an HDD mechanical hard disk cannot do that very quickly. Nice even if it ever needs to be restored.

Better safe than sorry A good backup is worth its weight in gold. A second backup even even more. Something a music lover or collector with a nice digital collection should have. We experienced that ourselves years ago, because then we lost a lot . We cannot emphasize the usefulness and necessity enough, but with an SSD there is an extra advantage. This can be can easily be connected to the radio in the car, provided it is equipped with a USB connection. So you have all your own music at hand, in good quality, even when you’re on the go.

Conclusion A good backup is a must, especially for the audio (and film) enthusiast. Today’s technology provides high speeds in pocket format. Investing in a piece of storage that can also be used for more than just a backup is more than convenient. Especially if the reliability is high. The Samsung T5 external SSD is recommended for a good backup of a beautiful collection of music.

Samsung T5 SSD

€ 109 | samsung.com

Rating: 4.5 / 5