This is a best case scenario as we are testing on a desktop PC that has USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports! Samsung Portable SSD T5 Performance By USB Interface. The Samsung Portable SSD T5 series uses USB 3.1 Gen 2 with UASP to reach these high data transfer speeds and if you use this drive on an older port you will get lower transfer speeds as a result. The scores improved to over 540 MB/s read and 510 MB/s write on both drives when a queue depth of 32 was tested! These scores are comparable to an internal SATA III SSD, so these are some wicked fast sequential file transfer speeds.
When it comes to sequential read/write performance we topped out at 486/481 MB/s on the 500GB model and 481/480MB/s on the 2TB model. Samsung T5 Portable SSD – 2TB CrystalDiskMark: Samsung T5 Portable SSD – 500GB CrystalDiskMark: We are including results for you to look at as you can use it at home to compare with to get an idea what the best case performance looks like on this drive. The problem is that the tests are so small and quick it rarely ever fills up a drives cache and is not a good look at real world performance on many external drives or SSDs that use TLC NAND Flash memory. Samsung Portable SSD T5 Performance BenchmarksĬrystalDiskInfo is free benchmark that many people use to test storage drives with, but this test runs really quick and the results show the highest score of the five ‘burst’ tests for each performance metric tested.