Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 vs Anker 3-in-1 Cube with MagSafe Wireless Charging Station
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.
Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 vs Anker 3-in-1 Cube with MagSafe Wireless Charging Station
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 →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.
Full details →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.
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.
Specifications, side by side
1 of 19 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 | Anker 3-in-1 Cube with MagSafe Wireless Charging Station |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹16,999 | ₹12,999 |
| Weight | 98 g | 440 g |
| Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty |
| AirPods | not published | 5 W |
| Apple ecosystem only | not published | The Watch puck fits nothing else, so this is not useful to Android users |
| Apple Watch | not published | 5 W fast charge, official Apple module |
| Cache behaviour | The advertised write speed holds for the first several tens of gigabytes, then drops -- this is normal and rarely stated | not published |
| Capacity | 2 TB | not published |
| Charges | not published | iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods simultaneously |
| Cooling | not published | Passive; the aluminium body warms noticeably in use |
| Drop rating | 3 metres | not published |
| Encryption | AES 256-bit hardware | not published |
| Folded size | not published | About 5 cm cube -- it genuinely folds into a travel form |
| Form factor | Portable external SSD | not published |
| Interface | USB 3.2 Gen 2, 10 Gbps | not published |
| iPhone output | not published | 15 W, Qi2 and MagSafe certified |
| Requirement | not published | Needs a 30 W or higher USB-C adapter, which is not included |
| Sequential read | Up to 1050 MB/s | not published |
| Sequential write | Up to 1000 MB/s, falling to roughly 600 MB/s once the SLC cache fills on a large sustained transfer | not published |
| Water and dust | IP65 | not published |
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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