66 PCWorld MARCH 2020REVIEWS
IMAGE: SAMSUNGSamsung Portable SSD T7 Touch:
Faster, with fingerprint security
This successor to the T5 is thinner and faster and adds a fingerprint scanner,
but without adding much to the price. BY JON L. JACOBISamsung’s Portable SSD T7
Touch is a very nice upgrade
to the older T5 (which will still
be available). It’s thinner, a
significantly faster reader, and it also sports a
fingerprint scanner that you can employ, or
not—your choice. Sure, you could get an
official FIPS-certified secure drive, but thosecost far more than the T7, which gives you this
extra bit of security while remaining within the
price range (currently $130 on Amazon [go.
pcworld.com/smt7]) of a normal USB SSD.
That makes it a sweet deal for the average
user who still wants effective data protection.
(Corporations generally require FIPS, and
secure government use always does.)