Samsung Portable SSD T3 2TB Review

By Nathan Kirsch February 22, 2016

CrystalDiskMark & ASSSD

CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2 x64 Benchmark:

CrystalDiskMark is a small benchmark utility for drives and enables rapid measurement of sequential and random read/write speeds. Note that CDM only supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with a queue depth of 32 (as noted) for the last listed benchmark score. This can skew some results in favor of controllers that also do not support NCQ.

Samsung Portable SSD T3 2TB on USB 3.1:

Benchmark Results: The Samsung Portable SSD T3 2TB was showing 443.3MB/s read and 430.2MB/s write on the sequential test when we ran the drive on the CrystalDiskMark storage test with the default settings (incompressible data). When running the 000 (0 Fill) test (compressible data) we found that the sequential read/write performance of the drive was about the same. The 4K performance was a respectable 29MB/s read and 79MB/s write.

AS-SSD (1.8.5636.37293) Benchmark:

We have been running the AS-SSD Benchmark app for over some time now and found that it gives a broad result set. The programmer has worked very hard on this software and continues to make updates often so if you use it, show him some love and send him a donation. There are now three tests that are found within the tool and well show the results from all three of them.

Samsung Portable SSD T3 2TB on USB 3.1:

Benchmark Results: In AS SSD we found the Samsung Portable SSD T3 2TB Drive was reaching 433MB/s read and 409MB/s in the sequential write test. The AS SSD Benchmark overall score ended up being 382 points.

Benchmark Results: In the AS SSD Copy-Benchmark we found the Samsung Portable SSD T3 2TB Drive had a speed of 202 MB/s in the ISO test, 162 MB/s in the Program test and 196MB/s in the Game test.