Samsung T7 Shield Up to 4TB Rugged USB 3.2 Portable SSD

Samsung Electronics America announced a 4TB capacity for its T7 Shield Portable SSD (PSSD).

Designed for outdoor content creators or travelers who want to secure and protect their data from exposure to the elements or life’s mishaps, the new capacity joins the 1 and 2TB variants of the T7 Shield introduced in April 2022.

The T7 Shield 4TB can combat the storage limitations of many devices. With 4TB of capacity, consumers can take more pictures on their phones, gamers can keep more titles in their game libraries, and creators can save hours of recorded video at resolutions up to 12K.

“As innovation in photo, video and graphics resolution technology evolves to be more life-like than ever, there is a need for higher capacity storage options to store and edit creations,” said Jose Hernandez, senior director, product marketing, Samsung. “Now at 4TB of capacity, the T7 Shield has enough room to store anything creators require while retaining its sleek and durable form factor and quick performance.”

The T7 Shield delivers a read speed of 1,050MB/s and a write speed of 1,000MB/s, which are approximately 2x as fast as its predecessor, the T5. Faster speeds save valuable time for consumers, digital creators, and professionals by minimizing the time spent on loading screens or waiting for files to open or compress. The T7 Shield can handle the toughest creator tasks like video recording, editing, and rendering without suffering performance degradation or overheating thanks to its Dynamic Thermal Guard. Designed to work across multiple devices, this SSD is compatible with PCs, Macs, Android smartphones, and game consoles.

The T7 Shield improves workflow efficiency and stores data in an accessible slim form factor. It is shock-resistant from drops of up to 10 feet and IP65-certified as dustproof and water resistant. Reliably secure, it supports AES 256-bit encryption. Despite the new rugged design, the T7 Shield is compact, fitting in a pocket, backpack, or camera bag and weighs a 3.5 ounces.

Whether on a photoshoot or family vacation, with the company’s Magician Software, users can access real-time information, set preferences, and manage their firm SSD’s performance, power usage, capacity, health, security capabilities, and more. Its newest feature, coming in February, is data migration, which is designed to help users upgrading the SSD in their laptop by transferring the OS and data from an old SSD to a new one ^[1] .

Available for purchase in black, the T7 Shield 4TB comes with a USB Type-C-to-C cable and a USB Type-C-to-A cable and includes a 3-year limited warranty with MSRP of $429.99.

The T7 Shield is the newest addition to the company’s portable SSD family which includes the T7, a daily driver that provides  fast speeds in a sleek design, and the T7 Touch, a security-focused drive equipped with a built-in fingerprint sensor for enhanced data protection.

^[1] Magician Software is only supported on Windows OS. Portable SSDs support Data Migration only on systems with Windows 8 or higher version.