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.
85010096
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)
