Review: Samsung X5 Portable SSD (Thunderbolt 3 NVMe) @ 2800 MB/s

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/31/2018 08:22 AM | source: | 3 comment(s)

Have you ever seen a portable storage unit reach 2800 MB/sec? Well hey now, we review the Samsung X5 Portable SSD (1000GB). This, by far, is the fastest portable storage to date as it is NVMe and Thunderbolt based, combined with the DNA of NMVe it can reach 2800 MB/sec and 2300 MB/sec writes.

Read the review here.

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#5579236 Posted on: 08/29/2018 12:55 PM

Got a few kinks to tweek it seems, but god damn is it still impressive and its portable... How or why are we still on SATA when ports which many newer machines have a few of now are running at far greater speeds

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#5579490 Posted on: 08/30/2018 09:28 AM

Very nice drive. I must say it's a big leap from where we came from 2 years ago in terms of external storage.

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#5579771 Posted on: 08/30/2018 09:44 PM

How or why are we still on SATA when ports which many newer machines have a few of now are running at far greater speeds

The only logical explanation i can think of is not having many PCIe lanes on-chip, or perhaps the AHCI/SATA controller being much cheaper to implement.

both thoughts really boil down to cost though, i know cheaper platforms will almost certainly not have very many PCIe lanes to throw at NVMe drives.

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