![]() On the other hand, that same limitation of only using Thunderbolt 3 also opens up many doors with its high bandwidth, making the drive viable as a scratch disk for content creation professionals.Are you a professional working with large multimedia files? Or an impatient amateur willing to pay money for time?īehold Samsung's latest storage gadget, the X5 portable external solid state drive. (In fact, for this review we partnered with MSI and tested X5 with the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF). This does cause the drives intended audience to be much smaller than a typical USB Type-C drive, mainly limited to those using Apple Mac machines, or modern high-end laptops. The Samsung X5 uses the Thunderbolt 3 interface, most notable for its 40Gbps bandwidth and up-to 100W of power however, despite using the same cable as a USB Type-C drive, the two interfaces are not to be confused. ![]() To achieve those speeds, Samsung have used an M.2 NVMe drive featuring the latest 3-bit MLC V-NAND, paired with a high-speed controller and their TurboWrite technology. Samsung claims the Samsung X5 is capable of read and write speeds of 2800MB/s and 2300MB/s respectively if those ring true in our testing, this will be the single-fastest external drive we've seen, without question. Last year we examined the Samsung T5 SSD which was incredibly impressive, this time around we're testing the Samsung X5 1TB. Today we look at something we've not seen from Samsung before a Thunderbolt 3-based portable solid state drive. We already rely on them for high quality televisions and monitors, their mobile division produces millions of devices per year, they make washing machines and fridge-freezers and, of course, flash storage in the form of SSDs, such as the Samsung 860 EVO and the Samsung 970 PRO NVMe drives. Samsung are rapidly becoming one of the biggest brands on the planet, dominating markets left, right and centre. ![]() Product on Review: Samsung X5 Portable SSD ![]()
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