Crucial X6 4TB Portable SSD - Up to 800MB/s - PC and Mac - USB 3.2 USB-C External Solid State Drive - CT4000X6SSD9 - $179.99

forenzo

Sep 28, 2023 3:29 AM

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forenzoSep 28, 2023 3:29 AM

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It also looks like the link in the last x6 deal is still good which includes the 2tb for $89.

kelly58

Oct 1, 2023 4:51 PM

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kelly58Oct 1, 2023 4:51 PM

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Up to 800MB/s

Uhm, no. Maybe 40 MB/s, if you are very lucky. Astonishing slow. Much slower than an external mechanical drive.

I had a $100 Best Buy coupon that was expiring and bought this because, well there's no such thing as too much storage, and it's an SD so it's got to be pretty zippy.

To it's credit, it is tiny and light, but to all intents and purposes it's so slow, it's useless.

Anyway I returned it and got my coupon back, with 2 extract months to use it, so every cloud and everything. Somethings got to show up on BB for Black Friday.

Last edited by kelly58 October 1, 2023 at 09:54 AM.

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FrugalMindset

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Oct 3, 2023 6:09 PM

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FrugalMindset

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Oct 3, 2023 6:09 PM

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Quote from kelly58

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Up to 800MB/s

Uhm, no. Maybe 40 MB/s, if you are very lucky. Astonishing slow. Much slower than an external mechanical drive.

I had a $100 Best Buy coupon that was expiring and bought this because, well there's no such thing as too much storage, and it's an SD so it's got to be pretty zippy.

To it's credit, it is tiny and light, but to all intents and purposes it's so slow, it's useless.

Anyway I returned it and got my coupon back, with 2 extract months to use it, so every cloud and everything. Somethings got to show up on BB for Black Friday.

Are you sure there wasn't a bottleneck somewhere in your testing, i.e. possibly the cable or a port limiting the drive's data transfer rate?

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kelly58

Oct 4, 2023 3:56 PM

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kelly58Oct 4, 2023 3:56 PM

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Quote from FrugalMindset

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Are you sure there wasn't a bottleneck somewhere in your testing, i.e. possibly the cable or a port limiting the drive's data transfer rate?

Tried a different cable and even different computers - got the same result. Amazon reviews mention this problem but there are also people who are quite happy, so maybe it's a quality control issue.

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dealwellson

Oct 13, 2023 2:21 AM

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dealwellsonOct 13, 2023 2:21 AM

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My experience is that they are reasonably fast. I can edit 4K video on them directly. The newer generation is a good 20% faster unless you have a special version of USB 3 that only some PCs(no Mac's) have that lets you get over 2000 MB/s

Crucial X6 4TB Portable SSD - Up to 800MB/s - PC and Mac - USB 3.2 USB-C External Solid State Drive - CT4000X6SSD9 - $179.99

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