LG UltraGear 27-inch QHD 165Hz IPS Gaming Monitor (27GN800-B) vs Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2
What separates them
These two differ on 2 recorded specifications. The LG UltraGear 27-inch QHD 165Hz IPS Gaming Monitor (27GN800-B) is ₹5,991 dearer.
LG UltraGear 27-inch QHD 165Hz IPS Gaming Monitor (27GN800-B) vs Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2
LG
LG UltraGear 27-inch QHD 165Hz IPS Gaming Monitor (27GN800-B)
₹22,990
DisplayHDR 400 is worth understanding for what it is not: with no local dimming zones, enabling HDR mostly raises brightness and washes out contrast, and most owners turn it off.
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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 LG UltraGear 27-inch QHD 165Hz IPS Gaming Monitor is for
Buy it if: Anyone wanting one monitor that games at 165 Hz and does colour-accurate work.
Avoid it if: Anyone buying it for HDR -- without local dimming there is nothing there.
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
2 of 22 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | LG UltraGear 27-inch QHD 165Hz IPS Gaming Monitor | Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹22,990 | ₹16,999 |
| Form factor | 27 inch gaming monitor | Portable external SSD |
| Weight | 6.2 kg with stand | 98 g |
| Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty |
| Adaptive sync | G-Sync compatible and FreeSync Premium | not published |
| Annual energy use | 44 kWh a year at 4 hours a day, about Rs352 at Rs8 per unit | not published |
| Brightness | About 320 nits sustained | 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 |
| Colour | sRGB 99 percent | not published |
| Drop rating | not published | 3 metres |
| Encryption | not published | AES 256-bit hardware |
| Ergonomics | Height and tilt, with a 100 mm VESA mount | not published |
| HDR | DisplayHDR 400 -- a badge rather than real HDR, since it has no local dimming | not published |
| Interface | not published | USB 3.2 Gen 2, 10 Gbps |
| Panel type | IPS | not published |
| Ports | 2 x HDMI 2.0, 1 x DisplayPort 1.4, headphone out | not published |
| Refresh rate | 165 Hz | not published |
| Resolution | 2560 x 1440 | not published |
| Response time | 1 ms grey-to-grey at the fastest overdrive, which introduces visible overshoot | 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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