There are times you can get away with a little thumb drive, and then there are times you need a seriously high-capacity drive that can store all of your big files and take a beating. That’s what the Samsung T7 Shield SSD brings top the table — all 4TB of it — and it’s a huge score right now at Amazon at just $263, nearly half off the usual $500 price.
The T7 Shield is nearly universally compatible, able to connect with Mac laptops, iPhones, and iPads; Windows PCs, Android devices, tablets, gaming consoles, and more. It’s USB 3.2 Gen 2 for peak speed and performance, but it’s also retro-compatible with USB 2.0 devices. And if you’re a content creator or editor needing a tough little titan to take on locations that could be hot, wet, or dirty — or you’re just clumsy and prone to dropping your tech goods — the T7 Shield is constructed with you in mind.
Power and Speed
With sequential read/write speeds of up to 1,050/1,000 MB/s4, the Samsung T7 Shield can more than keep pace with competing SSDs and also with your needs. You can edit files directly from the drive without compromising speed or performance, and you can connect it to 4K video cameras or other media devices and record the highest quality video directly to the drive, where there’s enough speed to digest it and enough room to store it.
The enemy of any SSD, of course, is overheating, which can melt down the tiny inner workings of the drive and kill your precious data. Nothing generates heat like speed, but the Samsung T7 Shield maintains its incredible speed while remaining impervious to overheating thanks to its high-tech rubber exterior with Dynamic Thermal Guard. Huge files transfer to and from the T7 Shield almost instantaneously while the drive itself stays cool.
No Delicate Flower Here
There’s no need to handle this hard drive with kid gloves — the Samsung T7 Shield is tougher than a two-dollar steak. It’s built with video and photo creators in mind, with IP65 water and dust resistance, and drop resistance of nearly 10 feet. And yet for a device with a massive 4TB capacity and all of that built-in toughness to guard it against accidents and the elements, it remains palm-sized, just 2.3 by 3.5 inches in size and just a half-inch in thickness, and tips the scales at just under 3.5 ounces.
We weren’t expecting such an enormous price cut with Cyber Week 2024 done and wrapped, but it looks like Samsung wanted to remind everyone that they’re the world’s #1 flash memory brand by dropping the Amazon price of the T7 Shield SSD by nearly half to just $263. It’s small enough to make a great stocking stuffer to the creative genius in your life.