Amazon.com: Crucial X8 1TB Portable SSD – Up to 1050MB/s – USB 3.2 – External Solid State Drive, USB-C, USB-A – CT1000X8SSD9: Computers & Accessories $95
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Also note that you need to leave a portion of the drive empty so that there is room for the "pseudo SLC" write-cache feature of this drive.
From reading people's reviews of this drive, a number...
Amazon.com: Crucial X8 1TB Portable SSD – Up to 1050MB/s – USB 3.2 – External Solid State Drive, USB-C, USB-A – CT1000X8SSD9: Computers & Accessories $95
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Are you using the cable that came with it? What size files are you transferring? Why not submit for a replacement if you're really having those issues? Drive seems to be well reviewed and speed tests...
Amazon.com: Crucial X8 1TB Portable SSD – Up to 1050MB/s – USB 3.2 – External Solid State Drive, USB-C, USB-A – CT1000X8SSD9: Computers & Accessories $95
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Do not buy this! I have two of these and they get SO hot, no matter what, that they throttle down to 50MB/s or so. Get the SanDisk. I regret buying these.
Amazon.com: Crucial X8 1TB Portable SSD – Up to 1050MB/s – USB 3.2 – External Solid State Drive, USB-C, USB-A – CT1000X8SSD9: Computers & Accessories $95
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Common USB 3.0-3.1 devices support speeds up to around 500 MB/s. This speed can be saturated by any decent SATAIII SSD in an external enclosure.
Some USB 3.1 (marked Gen 2) and all USB 3.2 devices...
Amazon.com: Crucial X8 1TB Portable SSD – Up to 1050MB/s – USB 3.2 – External Solid State Drive, USB-C, USB-A – CT1000X8SSD9: Computers & Accessories $95
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How's this SSD? I was going to get the Samsung 870 EVO and use it as external drive. None of my devices have USB 3.2, so will I see any benefits in performance?
Amazon.com: Crucial X8 1TB Portable SSD – Up to 1050MB/s – USB 3.2 – External Solid State Drive, USB-C, USB-A – CT1000X8SSD9: Computers & Accessories $95
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Lowest price ever, usually much higher. Solid state drive that's twice as fast as most 500 speed portable ssd. Was originally looking for a deal on the SanDisk but this is only slightly bigger
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