Seagate One Touch Vs Samsung T5 Ssd Which Should You Buy

If you’re in the market to buy a great portable SSD for your storage needs, chances are you’ve spent hours scouring all the options available on the market. If there’s one good thing about external storage devices that has happened over the last couple of years, it’s the fact that SSDs are becoming more affordable, and while there are a lot of great external SSDs you can check out, Samsung’s T5 Portable SSD, and the Seagate One Touch Portable SSD are two of the more popular choices out there. So which one should you buy? Well, I have tested both the SSDs extensively, and here are all the differences, the pros and cons that you should know before making a final choice.

The most important aspect of choosing an external SSD will most likely be the performance offered by them. There are multiple things to consider here, including what it is you want to use the SSD for, and the connection technology the SSD is using. That’s one of the areas where these two SSDs differ by a lot.

As was expected, the Samsung T5 SSD performs consistently faster than the Seagate OneTouch SSD. The Samsung T5 SSD reached write speeds of 467.8MB/s and read speeds of 490.2MB/s while the Seagate OneTouch SSD got write speeds of 219MB/s and read speeds of 372.8MB/s on an average.

In general, SSDs are more reliable than spinning disks, that’s just a fact. However, even with solid state storage, there are chances that something might go wrong, and in those cases, having a solid warranty would be helpful. Fortunately, both Samsung and Seagate offer a limited 3 year warranty on their respective SSDs, which means that if your SSD fails on you for some reason, you can get support from the companies.

Normally, this section wouldn’t matter, but if you’re dropping somewhere around ₹13,000 to ₹15,000 on an external SSD, it better look good and last long enough, right? Although design is a subjective thing to talk about, personally, I like the fabric-covered design of the Seagate OneTouch SSD over that of the metal body of the Samsung T5. The Seagate OneTouch SSD has a fabric finish on the top

Seagate does have one thing going for it though, the fact that it’s priced at ₹12,999 for the 1TB variant as compared to the ₹14,999 price tag on the 1TB variant of the Samsung T5 SSD.