Samsung T7 Shield Portable SSD

Samsung's Portable SSD T7 Shield is an external solid-state drive that's impervious to dust, rain, and tumbles. It's a durable and secure choice for outdoor workers and travelers, if on the slow side compared to non-rugged SSDs.

The Samsung T7 Shield is a durable and reliable portable SSD that would be at home in most environments. It’s designed for content capture but is otherwise limiting for general usage, however.

Faster than its Touch predecessor, the T7 Shield is also more rugged. It lacks fingerprint scanning, but is otherwise a faster, more durable external SSD.

The Samsung T7 Shield is an iteration, a marginal improvement on the T7 range; it adds IP65 rating to the T7 and that’s about it. It is not intrinsically a bad product, just one that is not competitive enough. Unless you want to stick to Samsung as a brand, there are more affordable and better protected options available, even from Samsung.