t7 protect wins the crimson dot design award 2023
Samsung unveils T7 Defend – a conveyable SSD that’s dustproof, waterproof, and absorbs shock from drops of as much as three meters. The 2023 Crimson Dot Design Award winner is suitable with varied gadgets, together with PCs, Macs, Android smartphones, and recreation consoles, and may switch knowledge as much as 9.5 instances sooner than conventional exterior laborious disk drives. The credit score card-sized gadget is characterised for its distinctive efficiency, reliability and safety. A rugged silicon rubber shell makes it very best for outside content material creators and vacationers.
watch above: designboom interviews Susanne Hoffmann, Head of Product Advertising IM Storage at Samsung, and Gyejin Jun, Product Designer at Samsung, on the tech firm’s Crimson Dot Design Award winner, T7 Defend.
Samsung T7 Defend Moveable Stable State Drive (PSSD) wins the 2023 Crimson Dot Design Award
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T7 Defend withstands three-meter drops
‘Whereas I used to be creating this product I used to be making an attempt to take care of our design identification, the one which Samsung moveable SSD has. I used to be making an attempt to visualise a design the place distinctive sturdiness is merged with reminiscence, so I created T7 Defend’s exterior within the type of a rugged protect manufactured from rubber,’ begins Gyejin Jun, Product Designer at Samsung.
One of many traits that units the Samsung T7 Defend Moveable Stable State Drive (PSSD) aside from others is that it’s the firm‘s first SSD that’s IP65-certified as waterproof and dustproof. Not solely that, however the gadget can be sturdy sufficient to resist a drop shock of as much as three meters – one meter larger than the earlier mannequin (T7 Contact). These qualities make it very best for outside content material creators or vacationers who want data-rich expertise with out having to fret about knowledge loss from any exterior, undesirable publicity. Regardless of the rugged exterior, T7 Defend is compact and light-weight, weighing simply 98 grams.
‘The T7 Defend is made for demanding environment like a workshop or the outside. It might face up to shock, mud and water. The product does all the pieces it must make your very helpful reminiscences protected. Successful the Crimson Dot Design Award for a storage gadget is in fact an ideal honor. We all know that our merchandise are good, however the mixture between design and know-how ultimately makes the innovative so we’re very proud to obtain this award,’ provides Susanne Hoffmann, Head of Product Advertising IM Storage at Samsung.
T7 Defend is Samsung’s first SSD that’s IP65-certified as waterproof and dustproof
the gadget’s rubber shell minimizes warmth switch
By way of efficiency, the T7 Defend delivers lightning-fast knowledge switch speeds, with a learn velocity of 1,050 megabytes per second (MB/s) and a write velocity of 1,000 MB/s. This makes it roughly twice as quick as its predecessor, the T5, and as much as 9.5 instances sooner than conventional exterior laborious disk drives (HDDs). Primarily, Samsung has addressed efficiency degradation and overheating points that happen when transferring giant information by optimizing. The exterior shell is manufactured from a rubber materials that has low thermal conductivity, serving to customers to comfortably deal with the gadget with minimal warmth switch. In consequence, there isn’t any efficiency drop, even when shifting information as giant as 2TB. This ensures steady knowledge transmission like high-quality video recording, enhancing, encoding, and rendering.
the moveable SSD delivers lightning-fast knowledge switch speeds, with a learn velocity of 1,050 megabytes per second (MB/s) and a write velocity of 1,000 MB/s
T7 Defend is suitable with varied gadgets – together with PCs, Macs, Android smartphones, and recreation consoles – to permit customers to retailer giant quantities of images, video games, and 4K/8K movies. It additionally prioritizes knowledge safety, that includes 256-bit Superior Encryption Customary (AES) {hardware} encryption to guard person knowledge in case the drive is misplaced. Moreover, the embedded Samsung’s Magician Software program allows customers to test the efficiency and standing of their SSD – similar to the quantity of storage used and temperature – conduct firmware updates, initialize the software program and extra.
‘The T7 Defend is an exterior SSD, which could be connected by USB to almost each digital gadget like a recreation console, a smartphone, or a laptop computer. Samsung all the time tries to encourage individuals with know-how and design to enhance their on a regular basis lives. We all the time take steering by person suggestions and by what’s happening out there and, on this case, we particularly listened to the wants and calls for of people that want the product of their office,’ continues Susanne Hoffmann.
the T7 Defend is suitable with varied gadgets, together with PCs, Macs, Android smartphones, and recreation consoles,
Samsung is dedicated to eco-conscious packaging. As with the corporate’s different moveable SSD line-ups, the T7 Defend makes use of one-third of the tray packaging in comparison with prior generations, whereas minimizing greenhouse fuel emissions throughout its manufacturing via effectivity.
‘It’s Samsung’s philosophy to do as a lot as attainable in-house. That applies to know-how, growth, manufacturing and in addition design. We’ll proceed to take action and I’m trying ahead to seeing many new designs sooner or later,’ she concludes.
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