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Crucial X8 1TB Portable SSD Up to 1050MB/s USB 3.2 External Solid State Drive, USB-C, USB-A CT1000X8SSD9

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  • Incredible performance with read speeds up to 1050 MB/s
  • Works with Windows, Mac, iPad Pro, Chromebook, Android, Linux, PS4, and Xbox One
  • Durable design featuring an anodized aluminum core, drop proof up to 7. 5 feet, extreme-temperature, shock and vibration proof
  • Includes a 3-year limited
  • Backed by Micron one of the largest manufacturers of flash storage in the world

Specification: Crucial X8 1TB Portable SSD Up to 1050MB/s USB 3.2 External Solid State Drive, USB-C, USB-A CT1000X8SSD9

Brand

‎Crucial

Computer Memory Type

‎DIMM

Model Name

‎Crucial

Model Year

‎2019

Product Dimensions

‎11 x 1.15 x 5.3 cm, 100 Grams

Item model number

‎CT1000X8SSD9

RAM Size

‎1 TB

Memory Storage Capacity

‎1 TB

Hardware Platform

‎PC, Linux, Mac

Flash Memory Installed Size

‎1 TB

Digital storage capacity

‎1 TB

Hard Drive Size

‎1 TB

Hard Drive Interface

‎Solid State

Hard Disk Description

‎Solid State Hard Drive

Removable Storage Native Capacity

‎1 TB

Processor Brand

‎micron

Processor Count

‎1

Model

‎CT1000X8SSD9

Manufacturer

‎MICRON CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP

Data Transfer Rate

‎1050 Megabits Per Second

Compatible Devices

‎Gaming Console

Mounting Hardware

‎USB-C to USB-C (10Gb/s) cable, USB-C to USB-A (5Gb/s) adapter, Crucial X8 Portable SSD

Number of items

‎1

Wattage

‎3600

Power Source

‎dc

Batteries Included

‎No

Batteries Required

‎No

Total USB ports

‎1

Connector Type

‎USB

Hardware Interface

‎USB 3.1 Type C

material

‎Aluminium

Form Factor

‎Portable

Device type

‎External Drive

Media Format

‎Digital

Does it contain liquid?

‎No

Country of Origin

‎Singapore

Special Features

‎Portable

Item Weight

‎100 g

13 reviews for Crucial X8 1TB Portable SSD Up to 1050MB/s USB 3.2 External Solid State Drive, USB-C, USB-A CT1000X8SSD9

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  1. D.Rajan B.

    Bought this SSD (Crucial X6 500GB Portable SSD Up to 540MB/s USB 3.2 External Solid State Drive, USB-C – CT500X6SSD9, Black, 39 Grams) and using exFAT filesystem (to access the storage on Android and MacOS also). The WriteSpeed of this SSD is “40 Megabytes per second” at its max.
    This SSD is worth the cost and is very compact with a very relatively fast speed (copying 11 GB took 8 mins).
    But if you are looking for a very fast speed, then you must go for the SSD with 1Gbps speed (approx).

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  2. Aishwarya Shelar

    Size and quality is great only if Speed could be better the max it goes is around 300mbps

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  3. William

    So I am including my benchmark. You will see that this drive is a bit slower than the other benchmarks and likely because I already have over a TB added to it. I have two devices on my 3.2 on board motherboard USB controller. Processor is i7 10700 and 32GB RAM. Write caching turned on.

    This is about half as fast as my older internal NVME .M2 SSD and as you can see pretty much in line with other benchmarks and what I expected.

    I set a goal to replace all spinners on my desktop except for one drive that I use as a backup. This was probably the easiest upgrade possible and I replaced my 2012 2TB USB 2.0 drive finally.

    As for this drive it does not get hot at all. It is surprisingly heavy and solid feeling. I guess I am used to cheap crap these days, so feeling that the drive was made of great materials and had heft to it was very nice. It is extremely responsive but to be fair I haven’t done anything demanding.

    I did turn on write caching before running the benchmark but I have no idea if that’s necessary as SSD’s are usually 🔥 in the performance department. If I ever start having issues with this drive I will update my review as drive failures are a huge pet peeve of mine. For now 5 stars. 30 years in IT, etc.

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  4. Ree

    I like its compact size easy to carry it as an accessory.
    I use as the main storage device for my laptop which of SSD architecture and I don’t want to clutter the drive with data.
    I have no data folder in the laptop. All data is on the external drive.

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  5. Rohan Kumar Bharti

    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!

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  6. Aishwarya Shelar

    Dopo una lunga esperienza con i dispositivi di storage di Samsung e Sandisk, ho deciso di testare questo Crucial X8 di Micron, e si è rivelato essere un ottimo SSD in alcune circostanze e pessimo in altre. Ma andiamo con ordine:

    Questi i risultati dei miei test svolti su Macbook Air M2 e Disk Speed Test di Blackmagic:

    W/R in media di 870 MB/s – 834 MB/s per un file di 5GB (Run di 15 minuti)
    W/R in media di 853 MB/s – 829 MB/s per un file di 4GB (Run di 10 minuti)
    W/R in media di 855 MB/s – 830 MB/s per un file di 3GB (Run di 10 minuti)
    W/R in media di 860 MB/s – 829 MB/s per un file di 2GB (Run di 10 minuti)
    W/R in media di 859 MB/s – 832 MB/s per un file di 1GB (Run di 15 minuti)

    Risultati consistenti per lettura e scrittura, nessun problema nella gestione di formati Blackmagic RAW, risultati affidabili fino a 12K DCI 24; bene per formati H.265, affidabile fino a 8K DCI 60; nella gestione del ProRes 422 HQ, in cui risulta affidabile per formati fino a 8K DCI 24 e riesce anche a gestire il formato 12K DCI 24. Mentre non ho notato problemi nella gestione degli altri file della mia libreria. Non ha mai sofferto di surriscaldamento durante tutti i test svolti, nonostante parte del corpo sia in alluminio.

    Prima di passare alle conclusioni ci sarebbe da capire come sono fatti gli SSD oltre le specifiche superficiali, solo così si potrà scegliere in modo ponderato. E senz’altro utile conoscere i tipi più comuni di storage flash NAND, che sono SLC, MLC, TLC e 3D NAND o QLC. Una piccola spiegazione delle caratteristiche proprie di ciascun tipo di NAND:

    NAND SLC
    Pro: massima durata – Contro: costo elevato e ridotta capacità
    Le NAND SLC (Single-Level Cell) possono ospitare un solo bit di dati per cella. Grazie a questa caratteristica è possibile scrivere e leggere alla massima velocità. Le NAND SLC rappresentano quindi la soluzione migliore in termini di velocità e durata, grazie ai 100.000 cicli P/E (Programme-Erase) che assicurano una resistenza più prolungata rispetto agli altri tipi di NAND. Tuttavia, la ridotta densità rende le SLC il tipo di NAND più costoso e per questo meno utilizzato nei prodotti destinati ai consumatori. Vengono generalmente utilizzate nei server e per altri impieghi di settore che necessitano di velocità e durata.

    NAND MLC
    Pro: più economiche delle SLC – Contro: più lente e meno resistenti delle SLC
    Le NAND MLC (Multi-Level Cell, conosciute anche come DLC) possono ospitare due bit per cella. La densità delle MLC è maggiore rispetto a quella delle SLC e ciò amplia la loro potenzialità in termini di capacità. In effetti le MLC offrono un buon rapporto fra prezzo, prestazioni e durata. Tuttavia, le MLC sono più soggette agli errori di dati, visti i 10.000 cicli di P/E e pertanto hanno una durata inferiore rispetto alle SLC. Vengono generalmente utilizzate nei prodotti destinati ai consumatori in cui la durata assume un’importanza minore.

    NAND TLC
    Pro: elevata capacità e costo minimo – Contro: durata minima
    Le NAND TLC (Triple-level cell) possono ospitare 3 bit per cella. Il maggior numero di bit per cella si traduce in una riduzione dei costi e in un aumento della capacità. Tuttavia, ciò vuol anche dire che le prestazioni e la resistenza risultano ridotte, per la precisione a soli 3.000 cicli di P/E. Vengono utilizzate in moltissimi prodotti destinati ai consumatori, essendo il tipo di NAND più economico.

    NAND 3D o QLC
    Le NAND 3D sono state una delle principali innovazioni del mercato flash degli ultimi dieci anni. I produttori di memorie flash hanno sviluppato le NAND 3D per correggere i problemi riscontrati durante il tentativo di modificare le NAND 2D con l’obiettivo di ottenere livelli di densità maggiori a un costo inferiore. Nel caso delle NAND 2D, le celle che ospitano i dati sono posizionate in orizzontale, una accanto all’altra. Ciò significa che la quantità di spazio in cui posizionare le celle è limitato e se si provasse a ridurre la loro dimensione, se ne ridurrebbe anche l’affidabilità.
    Pertanto, i produttori di NAND hanno pensato a posizionare le celle in su un diverso piano ed è così che sono nate le NAND 3D, in cui le celle vengono impilate verticalmente. La maggiore densità di memoria così ottenuta si traduce in una più ampia capacità di storage, senza che ciò comporti un elevato aumento del prezzo. Le memorie NAND 3D offrono inoltre una maggiore durata e un ridotto consumo energetico. Il problema principale di questa tipologia però resta la durata limitata a soli 1000 cicli di P/E.

    Detto ciò, personalmente darei un voto di 7/10 al Crucial X8. I punti persi riguardano l’uso della tecnologia QLC e l’assenza di ogni tipo di RAM come cache. Per ovviare a questa scelta, l’X8 attua un piccolo trick del controller software, che assegna parte dell’area di storage QLC come pseudo-SLC, (effettuando il caching dei dati come farebbe una RAM) questo garantisce un’elevata velocità di trasferimento, solo fino a quando questa cache non finisce per essere saturata nell’attesa di essere trasferita sul più lento QLC. Questo il motivo delle varie segnalazioni di rallentamenti improvvisi avuti da altri utenti e documentati nelle loro recensioni durante i trasferimenti di grosse quantità di dati (la scelta migliore in questo caso è il disco da 2TB, dal momento che disponendo di più celle da utilizzare come cache ha una minore inclinazione a riempirla di dati). Non da meno c’è da considerare la gomma di cui è rivestito ai lati, che a me non è piaciuta, sarà un’ottima feature per chi lo usa molto in movimento e rischia spesso che possa sfuggirgli di mano, ma in quel caso il T7 Shield di Samsung sarebbe una scelta più saggia; non ho testato la resistenza alle cadute, ma Micron garantisce resistenza al 100% per cadute fino a 2 metri.

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  7. SANKET LAXMAN BOBHATE

    Size is so small, almost same as credit card.
    It can be directly connected to mobile as type c to type c cable provided in the box.
    Connected to samsung s23 ultra without any issue, first time formatting is required.(not tested with laptop and desktop as main purpose is store mobile photos to SSD)
    File transfer speed is good.
    Easy to carry and very light weight.

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  8. Rohan Kumar Bharti

    C’est le 5ieme que j’achète (j’en ai acheté pour toute la famille !). Attention, je n’ai pas le recul nécessaire pour donner un avis pertinent sur la durée de vie, j’ai choisi ce modèle en me fiant en partie sur la presse spécialisée, et sur le nom de la marque…
    Je m’en sers comme disque de sauvegarde. Je l’ai cependant testé en installant un gros jeu dessus et le résultat est probant: chargement plus rapide qu’en le lançant a partir d’un SSD externe sata. Et très peu de chauffe…

    Pourquoi j’ai racheté ce modèle? J’avais acheté il y a un an pour mon fils un SSD d’ 1To 2 fois plus cher que celui-ci de 2To. Modèle qui était sensé être un des meilleurs d’après le site spécialisé lesnumeriques.
    J’ai comparé avec plusieurs benchmark les 2 SSD et les différences sont minimes. Du coup le rapport qualité-prix est bien meilleur pour le x8, et le fait qu’il fasse quelque millimètres de plus ne m’importe pas.

    Attention ! Les taux de transfert annoncés par les marques sont les taux théoriques maximum de la norme USB 3.1
    C’est fatiguant (mais normal !) de lire des commentaires d’utilisateurs se plaignant que les taux ne sont pas atteints car … cela n’arrivera jamais !
    Ce qui est important est de savoir si on ne s’éloigne pas trop des taux réels obtenus par les mailleurs SSD, et ces taux sont inférieurs (d’après ce que j’ai lu) à 900Mo/s (à comparer aux 1050Mo/s annoncés)

    Sans rentrer dans les détails , j’ai lu que ceci s’explique entre autre par le fait que lorsqu’on copie un fichier, un code correcteur d’erreur est transmis pour chaque octet copié, ce qui fait que la copie transfere en fait plus de données que le fichier original! Cela signifie que lorsque vous copiez 100mo, en fait c’est 120mo qui transitent par le câble (les chiffres sont donnés au pif, c’est juste pour illustrer le phénomène)

    De plus la vitesse réelle dépend fortement de la connectique USB du PC et de la qualité du câble que vous allez brancher dessus.
    En effet si vous n’avez pas un port 3.1 sur le PC ou que vous en avez un, mais vous utilisez un câble 3.0 ou 2.0, vous serez limité par la vitesse liée à la norme la plus basse utilisée.
    De même si vous copiez un fichier d’un disque dur vers le disque SSD, le SSD ne pourra pas écrire plus vite que la vitesse à laquelle il reçoit les données !

    Ce que j’ai constaté :
    Au max (tout en 3.1), j’obtiens des taux de transfert vers les 800Mo/s, et le disque se débrouille mieux en copiant des gros fichiers plutôt que des petits.
    Quand je copie des gros fichiers a partir d’un vieux disque dur, j’ai un taux stable a 80 ou 100Mo/s selon la fragmentation du disque… Ce qui est très bien!

    Dernier piège à éviter : il faut savoir que si vous utilisez un hub USB 3.1 en branchant 2 SSD dessus, chaque SSD ne pourra recevoir que la moitié de la norme théorique (3 périphériques USB branchés ==> 1/3. Et oui, c’est le fonctionnement des hub !)
    Donc si vous voulez profiter au max de la vitesse d’un disque, évitez les hub (sauf si vous branchez des disques durs sur un hub USB 3.1, auquel cas la bande passante partagée sera de toutes les façons bien supérieure à celle des disques branchés).

    Un dernier pour la route: certains constructeurs trichent en proposant sur leur tour plusieurs ports USB qui sont en fait liés à un hub interne. Du coup, le taux max sera divisé par le nombre de périphériques branchés !

    Bref si vous n’obtenez pas autour (+/-) 800Mo/s, ce n’est probablement pas le disque qui a un défaut mais quelque chose autour qui bride les transferts

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  9. SANKET LAXMAN BOBHATE

    Easy to use just like pen drive. Fast response while transferring files. Not compatible with Google pixel 6a.

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  10. Rahul Raina

    It works well. But, I didn’t receive the USB-A connector as mentioned in the pictures which is exactly what I was expecting.

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  11. K.S.Ramaprasad

    good download speed.good crucial product.

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  12. jpa

    ⚡Commençons directement par parler des choses importantes et qui intéressent tout le monde, est-ce que ce SSD tients ses promesses ?⚡

    Pour bien placer les choses, le test a été fait avec un SSD Samsung 980 Pro (pour ne pas être limité lors des copies par la source) et branché sur un port USB 3.2 Gen 2 bien sur 😉

    Crucial annonce une vitesse atteignant 1050Mo/s et …. pari presque tenu ! Comme vous pourrez le voir sur la capture du benchmark, j’atteins 1020 Mo/s. Donc c’est plutot bien ! SAUF QUE, c’est un benchmark ! Dans la vraie vie, ca se passe comment ?

    Alors comme vous pourrez le voir sur une autre capture : début de copie (gros fichiers de 50Go), j’atteins 600Mo/sec. On est donc loin des 935Mo/sec du benchmark en écriture. Mais cela reste une excellent vitesse. Je pense que la différence de vitesse est due au fait du mode d’écriture : le benchmark fait une écriture séquentielle la ou la copie windows doit faire une copie aléatoire (bon je ne suis sur de rien, c’est une supposition)

    LE PROBLEME : au bout d’un certain temps , le SSD n’est plus capable de tenir ce débit !! Comme vous pourrez le voir sur une autre capture, arrivé au 2/3 de la copie de mes 3 gros fichiers (après avoir copié 100Go à 600Mo/s), le débit chute à 90Mo/sec (soit plus de 6x moins vite !!!) et le débit restera ainsi jusqu’a la fin de la copie !

    Pour la lecture, c’est le même constat, les débits finissent par chuter également lors d’une trop longue copie !

    Alors j’ai essayé de le brancher sur un port USB 3.2 Gen 1 ou 3.1 (je ne sais plus). L’écriture est 2 fois plus lente soit environ 300Mo/sec. Pour le coup, le SSD a réussi a tenir plus longtemps ce débit mais au bout de 130Go => débit qui tombe à 90Mo/sec

    Bref, je trouve vraiment dommage que les tests sur les SSD ne parlent pas de ce phénomène et qu’ils se limitent souvent à des benchmarks ou des tests limités (genre une copie d’un fichier de 10Go). Et surtout je trouve un peu menteur le discours marketing ! Pourtant j’aime crucial mais la, c’est un peu la déception ! Je ne sais pas comment les autres SSD se comportent a ce niveau !

    🔥Est-ce que ce ssd chauffe ?🔥

    Oui le SSD chauffe ! Mais c’est tout a fait normal ! Les SSD Nvme montent en moyenne à 50°C. Mon 980 Pro, lorsqu’il est très sollicité sollicité monte à 60°C ! Donc ce SSD chauffe également et comme il a un corps en aluminium (ou autre metal), la chaleur est transmis au boitier. Celui-ci est chaud, assez chaud meme (ideal en hiver) mais pas brulant au point de ne pas pouvoir le toucher. Je peux le serrer dans ma main aussi longtemps que nécessaire, donc ca va. (mais oui, c’est surprenant la première fois)

    🤌Est-ce qu’il est de qualité ? 🤌

    Oui la construction est très bonne. Le boitier métallique rend ce ssd d’autant plus qualitatif (et cela participe également à la dissipation de chaleur j’imagine). Crucial est un acteur important de la construction de mémoire (filiale de micron) donc la encore, j’ai confiance dans le produit

    🤨Conclusion 🤨

    Dans les faits, ce SSD reste très bon ! Dans un usage courant (on ne fait pas toujours des copies de plus de 100Go), il propose un débit rapide ! De plus, sa qualité et son format sont très appréciables (attention, il prend facilement les traces de doigts). Pour certaines utilisations comme la lecture de video en direct depuis le SSD sera un jeu d’enfant car le débit nécessaire est de toute facon très bas (meme pour une video 4K) par rapport au débit dont il est capable.
    Cependant, la baisse des débits constatée est préjudiciable malgré tout pour certaines utilisations et surtout, on se doit de le savoir avant d’acheter. Ce phénomène est peut-être présent chez les autres également.
    J’aurais également aimé une petite sacoche pour l’emmener. Le boitier métallique risque de souffrir des voyages 😉

    Voila, en espérant que ce petit retour vous aide et vous soit utile, n’hésitez pas à l’indiquer 🙂

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  13. shaik liyakath hussain

    It’s good and fast speed

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