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I remember when my office had a 10-Megabytes drive (Mega, with an M). It was (give or take) the size and weight of a car tire. A few weeks ago, I got the T7 SSD from Samsung. It is two Terabytes big and the size of a credit card. I feel old.
Not only does this drive boasts an impressive 2TB storage, but it also claims to run at read speeds up to 1,050 MB/s and writes at speeds up to 1,000 MB/s. This is quite impressive, so, of course, we had to put it to the test.
Working with video often requires big storage and fast speeds. Here, we use SSDs to either capture the video directly (like with the BMPCC) or to create an on-location backup (like with everything we do). When we need to evaluate the performance of an SSD, we turn to benchmark software.
There are many SSD benchmarking tools out there. CrystalDiskMark is probably ranked at the top, but there are others too. For video, though, one of the best benchmarking software is the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. Sadly it is only available for Mac. I use a PC. So in this tutorial, I will show you how to install and enable the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on a PC.
Samsung has announced its newest portable SSD, the Samsung T7 Touch. Building on the popularity of the Samsung T5, the new T7 Touch is designed to operate with the fastest speeds possible on the USB 3.2 Gen 2 spec. It doubles the speed of the T5, coming in at around 1GB/sec. The Samsung T7 also comes with security in mind, adding a Touch ID fingerprint scanner on top of password protection and AES 256-bit hardware encryption.
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