Crucial X6 2TB Portable SSD – Up to 800MB/s, USB 3.2 – External Solid State Drive for PC, Mac, PS5, Xbox – CT2000X6SSD9, Black

I got my previous portable storage solution, the platter-based HDD WD My Passport Ultra in 2TB capacity, back in mid-2015. It's held up for almost eight years and I've been very proud of it. Recently it started to click, most likely meaning that it is on its way out. I take that to mean that the read-write head is striking the inside of the case on occasion. It actually happens maybe only once every two or three minutes when it's idle. So, maybe it's not that bad. And I could retire it to use as an only-occasionally backup drive - when I was copying and moving content from it to the new drive so it could be more easily accessible, the clicking did not occur nearly as often, so maybe I was worried for not much. Which is, fortunately, not an issue at all with the new SSD that I got just recently: Crucial X6! Same capacity, taking up the same position on my desk, but incredibly small - and no moving parts to wear out! YAY! Though of course I don't know for sure, I imagine that the inside is a small form-factor M.2 drive flanked with heat spreaders - the only other option is that the drive takes up the entire space inside the case. Either way, the drive is awesome and performs quite quickly for any number of applications. Much more quickly than the old magnetic drive, that's for sure. A weird thing is that it does not like CrystalDiskMark - creating its test file and then the speed test on it, well, takes a lot longer than I thought it would, whether I keep it on the default of 1 GB or go down to 128 MB. This makes this program unreliable for speed tests in my configuration - if I did not stop the test and let it show the speed that it determined, it would likely be much slower than the actual drive’s speed. Speaking of my configuration: my computer does not have a USBC port on it natively, and this drive only has a USBC port on it, most likely to save on space and keep the drive as miniscule as it possibly can be. Thus, I had to get a USBC to USBA adapter cable, which I had gotten before for use with another drive. As far as I can tell, without being able to use a benchmark program as previously stated, the functionality and speed is fine with this SUNGUY brand cable. And the cable is fairly snazzy as well as you can see, its nylon-esque cover being braided! Back at its inception two years ago, this drive was incredibly expensive at $285, and it was only available in 1 and 2 TB variants - now there's a 4 terabyte variant which I may get sometime. I was able to get this 2 TB variant for $110 and I am very happy about that. In retrospect, it might have been a bit better to be a bit more circumspect about my purchase and spend the extra $20 on the X8, which comes with its own USBA adapter and is apparently faster? (limited by the USBA connection, of course) But that's all right - this will do for me for now, and I'm sure that somewhere down the line I will get the X8 as well, and repurpose this drive for maybe an extra storage device for my Xbox One - or the other way around. Goodness knows it's slow enough with its magnetic drive built in. So yeah. get this drive if you want a little extra capacity and you're able to find a good spot for it to sit on your desk. Since it is so lightweight and small and thus likely to get lost if you don't secure it, I do highly recommend getting cable clips like those little adhesive/silicone ones that can grab onto cables and hold things securely in place - the ones I got have the brand names of OHill, ChefBee and ONME (yeah, I have lots of cables that need securing! ) and are sold here on Amazon for around $10, and come in both white and black (ONME had some Browns in their collection as you can see, but they stopped selling them over the past two years). Do some shopping as your needs entail 🙂 Take care, awesome fellow computer people, and happy storing!

I bought this for my son's laptop and it works great. The compact size allows for it to not be in the way and setup was quick and easy.

This portable SSD is so convenient, its small size makes it easy to take it anywhere with you. I use it to backup big files and it does it efficiently and quickly! In my experience it has never overheated nor have any issue with it.

I was surprised by the small size. It is easy to put somewhere. Like most current drives, it has no activity light. It came formatted as exFAT with 512k allocation units, which is very wasteful of storage space. I would suggest 128k for most people, but if you have a lot of small files like documents, you might consider NTFS with the default 4k allocation unit. You can format it in any modern format. The read and write speeds are the same. Many flash media have slower write speeds. The larger files are faster than small files. As with all flash based media I have used, fragmented files are slower than sequential files, which has to do with the charging of the address lines in the the memory chip. No heat problem like the cheap media have. It will run at full speed for many minutes without a thermal slowdown. Crucial is owned by Micron, one of the best makers of chips and an American company. I think this comes with a 3 year warranty, but it should last for at least 10 years unless subjected to heavy r/w activity.

Item - Crucial X6 1TB Portable SSD – Up to 540MB/s – USB 3.2 – External Solid State Drive, USB-C - CT1000X6SSD9 Price paid w/Prime- $79.99 + tax on 10/23/21 Yes is the answer if you're wondering the question of whether it works with Series S! BUT- it will not work out of the box, you need to get a USBC to USB cable or else it will only be able to be used for media and will NOT be able to be formatted for game storage & playability. A dongle or adapter did NOT work for me. The cable did. Unfortunately it only comes with a USBC to USBC cable. Fortunately I had one laying around after dropping several F-Bombs due to confusion thinking it was plug and play for my XBOX Series S. I accept fault because the (in the box) section states it has a USBC to USBC cable but some obvious info listed somewhere would have been nice. Performance: Overall better than I expected I can play games from the drive and still use quick resume with non optimized Series S/X games which was a surprise to me due to reading otherwise with non Microsoft brand storage devices. I played Arkham Knight and Need For Speed online and went back and forth with quick resume and had zero issues. Cool. Price: Looks like $79.99 was a great deal since it now sits at $119.70 w/Prime but $119 still seems decent to me. At this price I would probably try to spend more time shopping around though but I guess I got lucky. Cons: 1.) (Not a problem for me) The write speed slacking off after 20% filled capacity spoken about in others reviews seems accurate to me after using it. I intentionally filed it past 20% to see how it would perform while playing before this review. Results - Started transfer at 16% capacity with 60ish gig Forza 4. Once the Crucial got past around 20% capacity , the transfer from the internal drive to the Crucial slowed down a bit. Transfer countdown went from 1 min+ to 2 min+ and kept bouncing around and ultimately took around 7 min total to transfer the game. The most important part to me though was gaming was not effected once it past 20% only write speed so for my usage it does not matter but if write speed is extremely important to you, maybe look for something better but even if I was using this on a computer and needed to transfer 60+ gigs and it took the same time as the game did, I would have no problems with that at all. Con 2.) Lack of updated info on gaming compatibilities. I seen an article on their page which discussed compatibility with an Xbox One but nothing on the Series S, a keyword search shows nothing. IMO, there should be some info from the company in this listing or on this site that in order to use this with the Series S you will need to have or buy a USBC to USB cable. Summary: I feel I got a great bang for my buck and I'm happy it will allow gameplay and quick resume. If it didn't have the slow down after 20% filed capacity and it was clear somewhere in the listing or on their site it would be a 5 star product for me. It's still a 4 star for me so I'm happy. The size is great too. Hope this helped you avoid some confusion or understand better what you're looking at!

I got the 2TB version of this SSD for use as external storage for my XBox. However, since the XBox only has USB A ports, I couldn't use the cable (which expects a USB C port) supplied with this SSD. No problem, for around $10 I just bought a 2 pack of USB 3.1 (A to C) cables, and used one of those (separately bought) cables with my XBox and this SSD. And when I plugged this SSD into my XBox (via the new cable) the XBox immediately saw this SSD as "external storage" and offered to let me format it for storing games. And after format, I was able to move all the games I wanted to this new SSD (and even tested playing some of them directly from this SSD). And the really good news is that this SSD seems to be only slightly slower than the builtin "internal" storage of the console itself, and much faster than the speed of my external hard disk. And while some XBox games will only run from the "internal storage" of the console itself, most XBox games are happy to run from external storage (such as this SSD). As a result, the games I play that require "internal storage" get put on my console's limited internal space, but I can put other games I'm playing on this external SSD. This arrangement gives me a lot more storage space for games, while still only having a minimal increase on game loading times.

Very good product and the price was great

Works very well as long as you use the USB cable that it comes with. I could not get it to work with USB A to USB C. The instructions do say to use the USB C to USB C that came with it. Other than that itcworks on my phone and laptop.