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Samsung T7 1 TB, two leads, a drop height and seven footnote marks review
A one-terabyte portable drive that publishes both sequential figures, a drop height, an aluminium case and two supplied leads, and that carries seven footnote marks whose notes appear nowhere on the page.
The bottom line One of the best-specified pages on this shelf for everything except endurance: generation, both rates, a drop height, a case material and two leads. Seven footnote marks hang over it with nothing behind them, and no term or written total appears at all.
On the listing
A one-terabyte portable solid-state drive on USB 3.2 Gen 2 at 1050 MB/s reading and 1000 MB/s writing, offered for telephones, Mac machines, computers and consoles, in grey; high-speed external storage in a pocket-sized body with capacities of up to 4 TB across the range; up to nine and a half times the speed of an external spinning drive at those two rates, for recording and storing high-resolution video at the same time; a compact, robust aluminium case supplied with two leads for connecting to computers, telephones, televisions and consoles; protection against falls from up to 2 m, with optional password-protected hardware encryption at 256 bits; a free management application that optimises performance and keeps the drive updated; and a box containing the drive and both leads.
The generation, named
USB 3.2 Gen 2, written out. Several drives on this shelf name a connector shape or a family and stop, which leaves a buyer unable to tell which of their own sockets produces the figure on the box. This page states the generation three times. Together with the two published rates it is enough to work out what any given laptop will do with the drive, which is the whole question on a portable one.
Seven marks and no notes
Superscript figures follow the capacity, both rates, the compatibility list, the drop height and the software. Not one note appears. Each mark signals a condition attached to the sentence it follows, and the conditions are exactly what a buyer would want on a drop height or a rate. The figures stand as printed and the marks stand beside them, unexplained.
Two leads and no socket
The box carries one lead between two symmetrical connectors and one ending in the older rectangular plug. That covers a recent laptop and an older machine, which is the practical answer. What no line states is the socket on the drive itself; the shape has to be taken from the leads, and the site does not infer a fitting from an accessory.
Aluminium, and why it matters here
A metal case on a drive this fast is doing thermal work, not only cosmetic work. The bridge chip and the flash both produce heat at a thousand megabytes per second, and a shell that carries it away holds the rate up for longer. It also takes being carried loose in a bag. Naming the material says more than calling the drive robust would.
Before ordering
Ask for the term and the written total, and for the notes behind the marks. Everything about speed, fit and protection is on this page; everything about what the maker stands behind is not.
Availability
Priced from 160 € to 188 € across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores the day this page was checked.
It is stocked on the British Amazon store as well, in that country’s own currency. The range above leaves those out: it counts euro stores and no others.
In the American Amazon catalogue with no live offer against it: the reference exists, nobody is filling it.
Every figure in this section is what Keepa held on the day this page was last updated. Stock and prices move without warning.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 10 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
Where it holds up, and where it stops
Strengths
The generation is named in full, so the standard a computer socket has to meet is stated rather than implied by a connector shape
Two leads are supplied and both shapes are named, which covers a recent laptop and an older machine without a second purchase
Encryption at 256 bits in the hardware is offered as an option with a password rather than imposed, and the case material is named
Compromises
Seven footnote marks appear across the bullets and not one note is printed anywhere on the page
No measurement and no weight, on a drive sold on fitting in a pocket
None of the three endurance quantities, so nothing on the page carries an obligation
Specifications
Capacity
1 TB — printed in the title and repeated in the box list, in the maker’s unit and reported here in that unit. The first bullet separately names capacities of up to 4 TB across the range, with a footnote mark whose note does not appear
Interface standard
USB 3.2 Gen 2 — printed in the title and named again in the second bullet and the box list, with the generation given in full rather than left at the family
Stated link rate
Not published on the listing as a figure in gigabits per second — the page quotes rates in megabytes per second and names the generation, leaving the link rate to be looked up in the standard
Connector type
Not published on the listing as a socket on the drive — the third bullet and the box list count two leads, one running between two symmetrical connectors and one ending in the older rectangular plug, and neither says which end meets the drive
Stated sequential read figure
Up to 1050 MB/s — printed in the title and repeated in the second bullet, which carries a footnote mark whose note does not appear on the page
Stated sequential write figure
Up to 1000 MB/s — printed in the title and repeated in the second bullet under the same footnote mark, fifty below the reading figure
Stated ingress or drop rating
Drop resistance from up to 2 m — stated in the fourth bullet, carrying a footnote mark whose note does not appear. No ingress code is published beside it
Dimensions
Not published on the listing — the third bullet calls the case compact and robust and gives no measurement, on a drive the first bullet describes as pocket-sized
Weight
Not published on the listing — no figure in grams appears in the title or in the six bullets
Cable supplied
Two leads — the third bullet and the box list both count one running between two symmetrical connectors and one ending in the older rectangular plug. Neither length is stated
TBW rating
Not published on the listing — no total in terabytes written appears anywhere on the page
Stated MTBF
Not published on the listing — no figure in hours appears in the title or in the six bullets
Warranty length
Not published on the listing — no term of any length appears, on a page that does state that a management application keeps the drive updated
Amazon reference
B087DFLF9S (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
8806090351679
The questions that come up before an order
What is lost when a footnote mark has no note?
The condition. Marks of that kind normally qualify a figure — the machine it was measured on, the capacity it applies to, the circumstances of a test. Seven of them appear here, on the capacity, the rates, the compatibility list, the drop height and the software. Each one signals that something qualifies the sentence, and the page never says what. The figures are reported as printed and the marks are reported with them.
Does an aluminium case do anything besides look solid?
It carries heat. A portable drive of this speed produces enough of it that the case is part of the cooling, and a metal shell moves heat out of the bridge chip and the flash better than a plastic one. It also survives being carried loose in a bag rather better. The material is worth naming for both reasons, and this page names it.
1 TB · USB-C 3.2, generation not published · up to 1050 MB/s read · drop resistance to 2 m · one lead named, no length · no write figure · no TBW, no MTBF, no warranty
A one-terabyte portable drive that publishes a drop height and a single reading figure, names a lead without measuring it, and stops its interface designation one word short of a generation.
Best for: A laptop bag where a drive gets knocked about, and where the published drop height and the named backup arrangements matter more than a second rate.
1 TB · USB 3.2 Gen 1×1 · up to 500 MB/s as a transfer rate · two leads in the box · rubberised surface, no rating · no dimensions, no weight · no TBW, no MTBF, no warranty
A one-terabyte portable drive that counts two supplied leads and names the interface generation, and that never states the socket on the drive, a rate in gigabits or a single endurance quantity.
Best for: A household backup that moves between a computer and a console, where two supplied leads and a stated interface matter more than a full sheet of figures.
2 TB · USB 3.2 Gen 2 · up to 1050 MB/s read · up to 1000 MB/s write · magnetic case and ring supplied · two leads in the box · encryption at 256 bits · no dimensions, no weight · no TBW, no MTBF, no warranty
A two-terabyte portable drive supplied with a magnetic case and ring, whose first bullet states outright what the magnets will not do, and whose page publishes both rates and no endurance quantity.
Best for: A recent telephone used for filming, where the magnetic case is the point and the drive will spend its life attached rather than in a bag.
