After more than 40 years in the semiconductor industry, Samsung has become the hegemon in the global semiconductor field. In the SSD market, Samsung's market share far exceeds that of SanDisk and Intel, ranking first in the world. In the flash memory particle market, Samsung is also far behind in second, accounting for nearly 40% of the global share.
 
In 2011, Seagate acquired Samsung's HDD business, and since then Samsung has focused on flash memory manufacturing and R&D. Today, the SSD industry is booming, while the HDD industry is in decline. Samsung has bypassed the oligopolistic competition in the field of mechanical hard disks and has won at the starting line from a strategic point of view.
 
With its strong technical strength, Samsung has an absolute say in the flash memory market. The three major structures of SSDs - cache, main control, and flash memory chips are all self-produced, and it is the only SSD manufacturer with independent control over the product. In terms of flash memory technology, Samsung has been at the forefront of the industry, and V-NAND flash stacking technology has further increased the flash memory capacity.
 
Strong technical strength brings strong product performance, and each generation of Samsung's SSD is the benchmark for its peers. The company's own control chip makes full use of flash memory performance, making the read and write data of Samsung's SSD very eye-catching. The predecessor T3 was identified as its own hard drive 850EVO in a technology media teardown, and its performance is certainly trustworthy.
 
Compared with the 100MB/s read and write speed of mobile HDD, the read and write speed of mobile SSD can reach more than 300MB/s, which is more convenient for running programs and games, and is suitable for users who use mobile HDD heavily. At present, the actual read speed of Samsung's T5 on sale is 500MB/s, and the write speed is 480MB/s, and the performance is close to that of an entry-level SSD. In addition, the portable SSD is more shockproof and smaller, and the Samsung T5 is more than half smaller than Western Digital's mechanical hard drive, My PassPort, which is more suitable for carrying.
 
Limited by the development of the flash memory industry, portable SSDs are small in capacity and expensive. SamsungT5The maximum capacity is only 2T, the price is 5399 yuan, and 2T is the most mainstream capacity of mechanical hard disks, and the price is only about 550 yuan. However, in the mobile SSD, the Samsung T5 is more cost-effective, and the 500GB version is priced at 1099 yuan, which is nearly 300 yuan cheaper than the Western Digital My Passport SSD; The 1T version is only priced at 2469 yuan, which is 500 yuan cheaper than Western Digital.