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Amazon has for 4TB Crucial X8 External USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C Solid State Drive (CT4000X8SSD9) on sale for $159.99. Shipping is free.
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Great price on a fast, rugged, waterproof, ultra-high capacity, ultra-small portable solid-state drive. I've had one of these USB C 3.2 thunderbolt drives for a while now and absolutely love it! Have it attached to my Nvidia Shield Pro (which is also on sale right now) and holds my entire movie and TV show collection on its Plex server.

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Model: Crucial X8 4TB Portable SSD – Up to 1050MB/s – USB 3.2 – External Solid State Drive, USB-C, USB-A – CT4000X8SSD9

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T7 Shield is a TLC drive that can sustain 800MB/s sequential writes through the entire disk: https://www.anandtech.com/show/18...-upgrade/3

X8 is a QLC drive that sustains 800MB/s sequential wriets only for a short period of time before dropping to 150MB/s: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16...-onthego/6

There is a very big performance difference if you are actually going to write a large amount of data to the drive.
I have two x8 2tb and they are super slow if you are copying or moving a lot of data at one time. I thought they were bad, but they speed up if you transfer smaller amounts of data. Not ideal for a backup IMHO.

I switched to the Samsung T7 Shield and enjoy much better performance.

Or just buy a cheap nvme and e enclosure. 😉

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10-10-2023 at 08:27 AM.
10-10-2023 at 08:27 AM.
This is cheaper than the Samsung T7 Shield 4TB which is $199 today. How does it compare to that? I'm actually looking into getting a Samsung 870 EVO 4TB SSD and putting it in an enclosure because I can do a price match from Dell to today's flash sales and put that in an enclosure.
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10-10-2023 at 08:39 AM.
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Quote from Rizvi1 :
This is cheaper than the Samsung T7 Shield 4TB which is $199 today. How does it compare to that? I'm actually looking into getting a Samsung 870 EVO 4TB SSD and putting it in an enclosure because I can do a price match from Dell to today's flash sales and put that in an enclosure.
Two features off the top of my head that the Shield has and this doesn't: hardware encryption support and an activity light.
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10-10-2023 at 08:43 AM.
10-10-2023 at 08:43 AM.
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Two features off the top of my head that the Shield has and this doesn't: hardware encryption support and an activity light.

Ah nice, thanks for the info
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10-10-2023 at 09:42 AM.

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10-10-2023 at 09:42 AM.
Quote from Rizvi1 :
This is cheaper than the Samsung T7 Shield 4TB which is $199 today. How does it compare to that? I'm actually looking into getting a Samsung 870 EVO 4TB SSD and putting it in an enclosure because I can do a price match from Dell to today's flash sales and put that in an enclosure.
T7 Shield is a TLC drive that can sustain 800MB/s sequential writes through the entire disk: https://www.anandtech.com/show/18...-upgrade/3

X8 is a QLC drive that sustains 800MB/s sequential wriets only for a short period of time before dropping to 150MB/s: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16...-onthego/6

There is a very big performance difference if you are actually going to write a large amount of data to the drive.
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10-10-2023 at 11:28 AM.
10-10-2023 at 11:28 AM.
Quote from ckx :
T7 Shield is a TLC drive that can sustain 800MB/s sequential writes through the entire disk: https://www.anandtech.com/show/18...-upgrade/3

X8 is a QLC drive that sustains 800MB/s sequential wriets only for a short period of time before dropping to 150MB/s: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16...-onthego/6

There is a very big performance difference if you are actually going to write a large amount of data to the drive.

Thanks for the breakdown. I actually think I may go with the Samsung 870 EVO 4TB because that's on sale right now for $169 at Best Buy and Amazon. I'm trying to get Dell to price match so that I can use my Dell AMEX Offer $50 off $100. And then the UGreen enclosure is on sale for Prime Day at $14
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Uggh I bought the 2TB X6 just two days ago
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Can it be used in the eufy homebase?
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I have two x8 2tb and they are super slow if you are copying or moving a lot of data at one time. I thought they were bad, but they speed up if you transfer smaller amounts of data. Not ideal for a backup IMHO.

I switched to the Samsung T7 Shield and enjoy much better performance.

Or just buy a cheap nvme and e enclosure. 😉
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10-11-2023 at 07:57 AM.
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Quote from ghostfreckle :
I have two x8 2tb and they are super slow if you are copying or moving a lot of data at one time. I thought they were bad, but they speed up if you transfer smaller amounts of data. Not ideal for a backup IMHO.

I switched to the Samsung T7 Shield and enjoy much better performance.

Or just buy a cheap nvme and e enclosure. 😉
I have one too and it's not too bad after the initial fill since everything from there is incremental and the cache is decently sized. Of course that cache shrinks as the drive fills up.
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10-11-2023 at 08:11 AM.
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I bought 2x 4TB T7 Shields for backups and storing movies and holy good lord do they transfer files fast and consistently! It took about 8 hours to copy 4TB of movies from my old external 4TB HDD (usually takes almost 24 hours mechanical HDD to mechanical HDD in the past!) and then duplicating to the other T7 Shield took just over an hour for 4TB woohoo!

I got the best historical deal earlier this year @ $220 each but now they are going for $199, I'd highly highly recommend them! They're nice and impact resistant, got a durable rubber outer case and yes, label maker labels stick to the rubber just fine haha. They also each c9me with USB-A and USB-C cables as well. Very happy with them over here!
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10-11-2023 at 11:26 AM.
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Quote from ckx :
T7 Shield is a TLC drive that can sustain 800MB/s sequential writes through the entire disk: https://www.anandtech.com/show/18...-upgrade/3

X8 is a QLC drive that sustains 800MB/s sequential wriets only for a short period of time before dropping to 150MB/s: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16...-onthego/6

There is a very big performance difference if you are actually going to write a large amount of data to the drive.
You comparing the T7 with the X6 not X8.
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You comparing the T7 with the X6 not X8.
No, I am comparing it to X8. This image is from the second link:

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