Testseek.com have collected 96 expert reviews of the Samsung X5 Thunderbolt3 / USB3.1 and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung X5 Thunderbolt3 / USB3.1.
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Published: 2020-12-15, Author: John , review by: pcmag.com
Abstract: What's the best way to be sure your external hard drive won't suffer an early demise due to rough handling? Keep it in a climate-controlled room, wrapped in bubble wrap, resting on a feather pillow, and plugged safely into a stationary desktop PC.Excellen...
The drive can easily get hot, Only one color combo available
Samsung has always been one of the best in providing both an elegant looking external drive, as well as an excellent performance to go along with it and the X5 does deliver in both departments, especially from the speed point of view and not just purely f...
The 1TB variant of the Samsung X5 SSD costs Rs 48,999, making it one of the (if not the most) priciest external drives in the market. It goes without saying that for most prospective SSD buyers, the X5 would be overkill. It's clearly not meant to sit in a...
Abstract: A popular accessory for the MacBook Pro is fast external, bus-powered storage which is useful for backup, archiving, and/or "sneaker" net. Two new Thunderbolt 3 bus-powered products entered the fray. Let's see how they compare to the competition.(Image...
Published: 2018-09-17, Author: Ali , review by: camerajabber.com
The Samsung X5 is just one of the many new fast external hard drive to emerge recently.It is, however, one of the few that features Thunderbolt 3 over USB-C. This means that it offers far faster read and write speeds than the majority of the competition.I...
Samsung's latest portable drive is touted as being its fastest yet. The X5 leverages both NVMe and Thunderbolt 3 technology for performance as high as 2.8GB/s read and 2.3GB/s write. Ideal for creative professionals or media enthusiast, the new drive can...
The Samsung x5 matches its advertised read speed and writes thanks to that fast last generation 64-layer 3-bit written V-NAND. Combined with a bit of an SLC and DRAM cache and a very fast Thunderbolt 3 interface, this thing will smoke anything and after c...
Published: 2018-08-28, Author: Tom , review by: pcmag.com
Extremely fast data transfer speeds, thanks to Thunderbolt 3 and PCIe NVMe interfaces, Multiple capacity options, Sleek design,
Expensive, Heavy, No USB support, Difficult to connect to Windows PCs
The sleek, expensive Samsung Portable SSD X5 offers the fastest single-drive external storage money can buy, but it's suited mainly to well-heeled content-creation pros using late-model Macs...
Bottom Line, The sleek, expensive Samsung Portable SSD X5 offers the fastest single-drive external storage money can buy, but it's suited mainly to well-heeled content-creation pros using late-model Macs
Expensive, Heavy, No USB support, Difficult to connect to Windows PCs
The sleek, expensive Samsung Portable SSD X5 offers the fastest single-drive external storage money can buy, but it's suited mainly to well-heeled content-creation pros using late-model Macs...
