Shooting 4K or 8K video, or keeping a library of large game installs, fills a laptop or phone faster than most people plan for. The Samsung P7 portable SSD, which goes on sale in Malaysia on 11 November, is a pocket drive built for exactly that overflow, and it moves files over USB4 at up to 4,000MB/s. The 1TB model is RM1,170 and the 2TB model is RM2,350.
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Quick facts
- Price: RM1,170 for 1TB, RM2,350 for 2TB
- On sale: 11 November, on Shopee and Lazada
- Speed: up to 4,000MB/s read over USB4, about four times the T7
- Built for: 2-metre drop testing, plus shock and vibration tests
Samsung P7 portable SSD: how fast it is
Samsung rates the P7 at up to 4,000MB/s for sequential reads and up to 3,800MB/s for sequential writes. The company puts that at roughly four times the previous generation. For reference, Samsung quotes its 4TB T7, which uses USB 3.2 Gen 2, at up to 1,050MB/s read and 1,000MB/s write.
In practice, the gap matters most when you are moving one large thing at once: a day of camera footage, a project folder, or a game you want to carry between machines. Those headline numbers are sequential speeds measured by Samsung, and the speed you actually see also depends on the port and cable on the other end. A USB4 or Thunderbolt port is needed to get near the top figure; older USB ports will run the drive at their own, lower ceiling.
Samsung says the P7 works with desktops, laptops, smartphones, game consoles and cameras. It has also passed 2-metre drop testing, plus shock and vibration tests, which is the part that counts for anyone carrying footage between shoots, or a backup on holiday.
The drive first appeared in August, when Samsung showed the P9 and P7 at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne. Samsung Malaysia is unveiling it locally on 11 November, the same day sales open.
Samsung P7 price in Malaysia
These are Samsung's suggested retail prices for Malaysia:
- 1TB: RM1,170, on sale from 11 November
- 2TB: RM2,350, on sale from 11 November
- 4TB: RM4,700, coming in 2027 (date to be announced)
- 8TB: RM9,300, coming in 2027 (date to be announced)
The 1TB and 2TB models will be sold through Shopee and Lazada. Across the range the price works out to between about RM1,163 and RM1,175 per terabyte, so the bigger sizes do not get meaningfully cheaper per terabyte.
Why external storage is worth pricing up
The P7 makes the most sense set against what built-in storage costs. When we read Apple's Malaysian store last month, every MacBook Pro storage upgrade worked out to RM2,250 for each added terabyte, and adding 3TB to a MacBook Pro costs RM6,750. On phones, going from 256GB to 1TB on an iPhone 18 Pro costs RM3,000 in Malaysia.
At its suggested price, the P7 costs a little over half Apple's per-terabyte rate for MacBook Pro storage. Built-in storage and an external drive are not the same thing: internal storage is always there, while a portable drive can be lost, and has to be plugged in. But for footage, archives and game libraries that do not need to live inside the machine, a fast external drive is the cheaper place to put them.
Who should look at it
The P7 is aimed at people whose files have outgrown their devices: video shooters offloading from a camera or phone, creators editing straight off an external drive, and gamers carrying large installs between a PC and a console. If your laptop or PC has a USB4 or Thunderbolt port, the P7 is a quick way to add room without paying for a bigger built-in drive. If it does not, check what speed your port can deliver before paying for USB4.
Product image courtesy of Samsung.
