Anker 3-in-1 Cube with MagSafe Wireless Charging Station vs Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2
What separates them
These two differ on 1 recorded specification. The Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 is ₹4,000 dearer.
Anker 3-in-1 Cube with MagSafe Wireless Charging Station vs Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2
Anker
Anker 3-in-1 Cube with MagSafe Wireless Charging Station
₹12,999
Folding three chargers into a 5 cm aluminium cube is a genuine piece of engineering and the reason to buy it -- a nightstand and a travel bag both keep one object instead of three cables.
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Samsung
Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2
₹16,999
The write figure worth planning around is not 1000 MB/s but what happens after the cache fills: on a sustained multi-hundred-gigabyte transfer it settles closer to 600 MB/s.
Full details →Who the Anker 3-in-1 Cube with MagSafe Wireless Charging Station is for
Buy it if: Apple users with a phone, watch and AirPods who travel and want one object instead of three.
Avoid it if: Android users entirely, and anyone who does not already own a 30 W adapter.
Who the Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 is for
Buy it if: Anyone offloading video or photos in the field who needs the drive to survive being dropped.
Avoid it if: Anyone who needs sustained 1000 MB/s writes for hours -- no consumer SSD holds that.
Specifications, side by side
1 of 19 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Anker 3-in-1 Cube with MagSafe Wireless Charging Station | Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹12,999 | ₹16,999 |
| Weight | 440 g | 98 g |
| Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty |
| AirPods | 5 W | not published |
| Apple ecosystem only | The Watch puck fits nothing else, so this is not useful to Android users | not published |
| Apple Watch | 5 W fast charge, official Apple module | not published |
| Cache behaviour | not published | The advertised write speed holds for the first several tens of gigabytes, then drops -- this is normal and rarely stated |
| Capacity | not published | 2 TB |
| Charges | iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods simultaneously | not published |
| Cooling | Passive; the aluminium body warms noticeably in use | not published |
| Drop rating | not published | 3 metres |
| Encryption | not published | AES 256-bit hardware |
| Folded size | About 5 cm cube -- it genuinely folds into a travel form | not published |
| Form factor | not published | Portable external SSD |
| Interface | not published | USB 3.2 Gen 2, 10 Gbps |
| iPhone output | 15 W, Qi2 and MagSafe certified | not published |
| Requirement | Needs a 30 W or higher USB-C adapter, which is not included | not published |
| Sequential read | not published | Up to 1050 MB/s |
| Sequential write | not published | Up to 1000 MB/s, falling to roughly 600 MB/s once the SLC cache fills on a large sustained transfer |
| Water and dust | not published | IP65 |
Every row is a figure one or both products record. A blank is a figure the catalogue does not hold, not a zero.
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