Samsung Portable SSD X5: Performance. If your Mac or PC has the chops (Thunderbolt 3), you’ll like the X5 (shown in the charts as the gold bars), Read ‘em and weep Thunderbolt 1/2 and USB users.

Samsung introduced its very first external NVMe-based solid-state drive: The Samsung Portable SSD X5. It requires a Thunderbolt 3 connection, meaning your files will transfer to and from the drive ...

By mixing the advanced SSD memory with the TurboWrite caching technology the new Samsung X5 is capable of hitting peak read and write speeds of up to 2,800MB/s and 2,300MB/s respectively.

When the Samsung X5 Portable SSD was first revealed, I was a bit taken aback by the design, especially when you consider that the company’s T5 drive was so tiny, unassuming, and minimalistic.

Inside the X5’s enclosure is an NVMe M.2 SSD, and Thunderbolt 3 interface board. The SSD is in the same class as the Samsung SSD 970 EVO and features the same 64-layer V-NAND and Phoenix controller.

Samsung introduced a new portable X-series NVMe SSD with support for Thunderbolt 3. The new Samsung Portable SSD X5, with its 40Gbps bandwidth, can hit read speeds of 2,800 MB/s.

Samsung's X5 portable SSD is a beast with best in class performance, but a price tag above what the average consumer will need. We review the red and gray device and compare it to a pair of other ...

The Samsung Portable SSD X5 is the first portable drive to make use of NVMe technology, backed up by the 40Gbps of bandwidth offered by Thunderbolt 3 technology.

The sleek, expensive Samsung Portable SSD X5 offers the fastest single-drive external storage money can buy, but it's suited mainly to well-heeled content-creation pros using late-model Macs.