So why would you pay such a premium for your external storage? While you can pick up a 2TB external HDD for £80, the equivalent capacity T3 comes in at £499. Available in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities, it stands shoulder to shoulder with most portable hard disk drives (HDDs).Ĭapacity is one thing, but price is another matter altogether and flash memory doesn’t come cheap. The Samsung Portable SSD T3 is tiny – about half the size of an iPhone 5S – but don’t let that fool you into thinking it can’t store huge volumes of CAD data. The bundled Samsung Portable SSD software makes it incredibly easy to set up encryption on the T3 Samsung Portable SSD T3 – The drive You will then be able to use the Samsung Portable SSD T3 just in the same way you would any standard external drive. To unlock the encrypted drive, you simply need to enter the password. Should the drive fall into the wrong hands, no one will be able to read or write files, let alone see the contents of the drive. Once installed, it only takes a few clicks to secure the drive with a password. On the root of the drive, you’ll find Windows and OS X installation files for the Samsung Portable SSD software.

Setting up the Samsung Portable SSD T3 for encryption is incredibly easy. Windows has BitLocker built in and Mac OS X has FileVault, but neither are directly compatible. One of the best things about Samsung’s encryption technology is that it works across multiple platforms – Mac OS X (10.7 or higher), Windows (7 or higher) and Android KitKat (version 4.4 or higher). With Samsung’s new T3, a 2TB USB 3.0 external Solid State Drive (SSD), however, protecting your data has never been so easy. With a shockresistant metal case and the inherent durability of flash memory, Samsung says the T3 can survive a drop of up to two metresĭrive encryption isn’t rocket science, but if you don’t know your BitLocker from your BitTorrent, then it might be something you’ve ignored.

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