Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 vs Keychron Q1 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard
What separates them
These two differ on 2 recorded specifications. The Keychron Q1 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard is ₹4,991 dearer.
Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 vs Keychron Q1 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard
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.
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Keychron
Keychron Q1 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard
₹21,990
QMK firmware is what separates this from an expensive gaming keyboard: the remapping lives on the keyboard, so layers and macros travel to any machine you plug it into with no driver installed.
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 Keychron Q1 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard is for
Buy it if: Anyone who wants to tune switches and layout, and keep that config across machines with no software.
Avoid it if: Anyone needing a portable or numeric-keypad keyboard.
Specifications, side by side
2 of 19 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 | Keychron Q1 Max QMK/VIA Wireless Custom Mechanical Keyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹16,999 | ₹21,990 |
| Form factor | Portable external SSD | Custom mechanical keyboard, 75 percent |
| Weight | 98 g | 1.6 kg |
| Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty |
| Battery | not published | 4000 mAh, about 100 hours without backlight |
| 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 |
| Case | not published | Full CNC aluminium, gasket mounted |
| Connectivity | not published | 2.4 GHz receiver, Bluetooth to 3 devices, or USB-C |
| Drop rating | 3 metres | not published |
| Encryption | AES 256-bit hardware | not published |
| Firmware | not published | QMK and VIA -- fully remappable including layers and macros, stored on the keyboard itself |
| Interface | USB 3.2 Gen 2, 10 Gbps | not published |
| Layout | not published | 75 percent -- function row and arrows kept, numeric keypad dropped |
| 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 |
| Sound | not published | Double gasket mount with internal foam, tuned for a low-pitched sound |
| Switches | not published | Hot-swappable, 5-pin, no soldering |
| Water and dust | IP65 | not published |
| Weight note | not published | 1.6 kg. This is desk furniture, not a portable keyboard |
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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