Crucial X6

The Crucial X6 Portable SSD offers solid value for money. There are much faster USB and Thunderbolt drives, but the Crucial X6 combines good performance and good design for an attractive price. The Crucial model is also ideal to take with you thanks to its compact dimensions. How many drives can you fit so comfortably in your pocket?

They are small, robust and fast: SSD hard drives offer additional storage space for documents, photos and other data. We had 40 external SSD hard drives tested. 27 were awarded the test quality rating of Good. But it's worth taking a look at the details: We discovered significant differences in price and maximum achievable speed...

Crucial's X6 Portable SSD is the only SSD in this comparison that works according to the faster USB 3.2 Gen 2. The measurements revealed some differences to the Marvel Xtreme M80, which uses the same controller. When reading large files, the X6 achieved just under 1 GByte/s, and when writing, our measured value is even slightly higher; when writing completely, however, the X6 is around 30 per cent...

Crucial's X6 is an affordable and very portable USB Type-C SSD that dishes out fast and responsive performance, but its relatively small cache results in reduced performance during larger sustained data transfers.

An external SATA SSD in a handy format whose strength lies in reading. The purchase price is quite fair in view of the capacity.