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.
August 2018
(85%)
96 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(85%)
3128 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Best performing portable SSD tested to date (by a large margin)
Solid construction. Attractive design
Extremely fast data transfer speeds
Thanks to Thunderbolt 3 and PCIe NVMe interfaces
Multiple capacity options
Sleek design
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
Streamlined
Metal Enclosure
Excellent Performance
Thunderbolt 3 Bandwidth
Durable Chassis
Capacity Up To 2TB
Blazingly fast
Portable
Thunderbolt 3 interface
Sequential read and write performance
Full hardware-based encryption
Premium build quality
Great speed performance
Thunderbolt 3 + NVMe
Easy-to-use software
The editors didn't like
Physical size seems a bit larger than needed
Thermal design limits cooling for longer transfers (>5 minutes at >1GB/s)
Can only be used in Thunderbolt 3 capable systems (no USB 3.1 compatibility)
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...
The Samsung Portable SSD X5 is the fastest Thunderbolt 3 drive that we have had the pleasure of reviewing to date and its performance is most impressive. The X5 1TB drive that we reviewed today is rated at up to 2800 MB/s read and 2300 MB/s write and we w...
Published: 2018-08-28, Author: Tony , review by: Techreport.com
The X5 blew all of our other contenders clean out of the water. There is no doubt that it will land far ahead of the other portables in our rankings. We distill an overall performance rating using an older SATA SSD as a baseline. To compare each drive, w...
