The perpetual concern of gaming enthusiasts: How long before your GPU starts playing? But another fight has emerged in recent years.
Will your games even go to your computer? Today, just one game can swallow up to 150GB, more than the disk capacity of some laptops, even today.
The Samsung T5 is a solution. This is a small SSD that fits in the palm of your hand, but can hold up to 2TB of storage. Or, really, every game that will probably pay off in the next six months or more.
Pocket power
The best part is that you can put the Samsung T5 in your pocket, plug it into your computer if necessary, and even take the Steam installation directories to a friend and save download time.
Even if you end up needing to share your game installation files with a friend, the transfer speed * of 540MB / s will fly in the space of a few minutes, instead of hours. Nobody wants to wait an age to start playing.
Consider a Samsung T5 as your proprietary Spotify AAA playlist that you can take anywhere.
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Built for the road
You can really go anywhere too. Drop it 2m and it will be fine. A few days in your backpack while you are busy working or lecturing? No problem.
This is a hardened external hard drive, and you will never guess. The Samsung T5 has an anodized aluminum casing that looks as smooth as any smartphone, and it comes in a ton of colors including black, blue, red, and gold.
We are not saying that you need to adapt your SSD to your gaming rig, but you can if you wish. We are a bit in love with the red Samsung T5 SSD.
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Choice, choice
You don't need to be a game changer to use the Samsung Portable SSD T5. It is available in storage tiers ranging from 250GB to 2TB.
Adapt it to your needs and you will be looking for the perfect way to take your games with you wherever you are. And the Samsung Portable SSD T5 also means that you won't have to open your PC case and take care of the connectors.
The range currently starts at just € 94.99 (€ 96, AU € 169) for the 500GB version. Samsung's T5 SSD costs € 167.99 (€ 154.90, AU € 279.35) and the more exclusive 2TB player costs € 279.99 (€ 330.75, AU € 465.59).
These are sale prices, with RRPs of € 97.99, € 197.99 and € 399.99, respectively.
You can find more information on Samsung.com.
* Figures based on Samsung testing. Performance may vary based on host configuration. To achieve maximum transfer speeds of 540MB / s, the host device and connection cables must be USB 3.1 Gen 2 compliant and UASP mode must be enabled.