Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 vs LG UltraGear 27-inch QHD 165Hz IPS Gaming Monitor (27GN800-B)
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.
Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 vs LG UltraGear 27-inch QHD 165Hz IPS Gaming Monitor (27GN800-B)
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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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.
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 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.
Specifications, side by side
2 of 22 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 | LG UltraGear 27-inch QHD 165Hz IPS Gaming Monitor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹16,999 | ₹22,990 |
| Form factor | Portable external SSD | 27 inch gaming monitor |
| Weight | 98 g | 6.2 kg with stand |
| Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty |
| Adaptive sync | not published | G-Sync compatible and FreeSync Premium |
| Annual energy use | not published | 44 kWh a year at 4 hours a day, about Rs352 at Rs8 per unit |
| Brightness | not published | About 320 nits sustained |
| 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 |
| Colour | not published | sRGB 99 percent |
| Drop rating | 3 metres | not published |
| Encryption | AES 256-bit hardware | not published |
| Ergonomics | not published | Height and tilt, with a 100 mm VESA mount |
| HDR | not published | DisplayHDR 400 -- a badge rather than real HDR, since it has no local dimming |
| Interface | USB 3.2 Gen 2, 10 Gbps | not published |
| Panel type | not published | IPS |
| Ports | not published | 2 x HDMI 2.0, 1 x DisplayPort 1.4, headphone out |
| Refresh rate | not published | 165 Hz |
| Resolution | not published | 2560 x 1440 |
| Response time | not published | 1 ms grey-to-grey at the fastest overdrive, which introduces visible overshoot |
| 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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