Crucial X8

I’ve bought a Crucial X8 1T. It’s really great, but you got to be careful to completely re-format the SSD clean. I had a lot of problem at first, but since then it’s been a real delight. Barely any difference from the internal SSD

Micron needs to seriously re-think this device's power consumption. Even when not using the thing, even after waiting a long time to make sure it's 100% finished with committing whatever was in its write cache, the thing still emits way too much heat for me to use this on a regular basis except perh...

Apparently without TRIM support, the built-in "Active Garbage Collection" is wholly inadequate to maintain performance. I have both a 1TB and a 2TB X8. I use both via USB on my 2013 Macbook Pro. The performance starts out great but begins to deteriorate after a couple of months and I cannot get it t...

Although it worked well at first, it has 2 major problems to be aware of: (1) It gets hot — a lot — when in operation. This is common to all SSDs, but the case was suposed to dissipate the heat better and it does not make a good job at that. You cannot hold or touch the unit, and this is probably wh...

This external SSD uses QLC memory with a small SLC cache. QLC (Quad Level Cell) type of memory is newer and cheaper to produce memory over the previous generation of TLC (Triple Level Cell) memory which is why they can price this 1TB external at ~$150. If you regularly transfer small files that are ...

I purchased 2 of these. I run a top 5% setup (of the world) and have seen 1000 MB/s + (sustained write) from other external USB-C drives on my system. It's not my system. These drives heat up fast and I think they start to throttle ? Just a guess. I put a fan over it to cool it for long xfers (ridic...

I just bought this drive and intended not for basically a super speed vault for pictures and videos to share between computers and to use with my S20 phone. While copying 120gb of files from an old hard drive it got unbelievably hot... My concern with this drive is if the heat is effecting the drive...

Brand new HP Spectre laptop, maxed out machine and won't work at all on the USB-C or USB-A. Speeds of 3.5 are the best I can get. I had a VM of 120 GB, was going to take over 9 hours. Connect to a HP desktop, 550 speeds. Have no idea what is wrong with the laptop that it can't function correctly. An...

OK, I saw previous reviews, that said it could be slow on extended use. And that it got hot. So, I copied over my full data set of about 275k files, using 456 GB. It took about eleven hours. Thing is, using this same data set (and same laptop and same USB 3.0 port), and a spinning USB disk drive (th...

It's fast but not as fast as I thought it'd be. I have a 2016 Macbook Pro. So currently, I have it connected with the wire included. I'm at 12GB transferred with 35 more GB to be transferred. It says 35 minutes to go. Maybe it's because it's 8000 files? Not sure, it's fast but I expected more. It do...