The Samsung Portable SSD T3 was a compact, durable, lightweight, and fast external solid state storage device, that offered killer performance when it launched. The T3 has been out for quite a while, however, and Samsung has since released a few newer types of flash memory, which are better suited to low-power, portable storage devices. As such, the company decided to tweak the T3's design, update it with newer TLC V-NAND flash memory, massage the firmware, and the brand-new Samsung Portable SSD T5 was born.

We?ve got one of the new Portable SSD T5's on-hand and have some benchmarks to share with you on the pages ahead...