Questions about Samsung Portable SSD T3

When the SSD T3 is only plugged in, it needs practically no power. If I copy a large file, then the power consumption on my Surface 2 increases from 8 watts to about 16 W. If a large file is copied internally, the power consumption increases to about 13 W. This means that the SSD needs about 3 watts when reading/writing, and almost nothing else.

Although the performance would allow this without any problems, many game softwares advise against it, or even prevent the outsourcing of files to external drives. I would therefore advise against it.

Hello, I don't think so, the ssd speed will reach its limits before the usb 3.0 :) so it won't change much

Although these discs have a USB-C port, they come with a short USB-C to USB-3 cable. So you don't need an additional adapter.

Depends on what kind of SSD you use otherwise. According to the manufacturer, the SSD can achieve a read speed of up to 450MB/s via USB3.1. It is possible to install Steam games, as long as you can define the path for the storage location in Steam. However, I cannot tell you whether this is recommended.

Ja, siehe dazu folgendes Youtubevideo, Samsung Portable SSD T3 Eindruck @ CES 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SxWI-1MSzM