Do you want to use a fast drive for your computer? If so, you can learn something about Samsung new external X5 solid-state drive which has high read & write speed and good shock-resistant feature. Read this article to learn more information.
Samsung Announced Samsung External X5 SSD
Perhaps, you are searching for a fast way to transfer and save your data to an external drive. And here is the good news: no long ago, Samsung announced its first external NVMe-based solid-state drive – Samsung external X5 SSD, or you can call it Samsung portable SSD X5.
This SSD is using a Thunderbolt 3 connection which means that the files can be transferred to or from the disk drive at speed up to 40 Gbps.
This Samsung external X5 SSD is specially designed for professional and content designers who need a fast disk drive which can be used for a long time.
After you get a new SSD, you can use this free partition manager – MiniTool Partition Wizard to manage the drive.
The Main Features of Samsung External X5 SSD
Speed
The main technology you should pay attention to is NVMe. Its full name is Non-Volatile Memory Express. Actually, it is a specification for NAND flash memory, and it can be used to connect a storage device to a host personal computer’s PCI Express bus.
You can understand it like this: with this SSD, you can make the data communication with fast speed on the PC. By contrast, the speeds of using the standard hard drive and cartridge-sized SSD are slower.
You can see these data:
According to Samsung statement, Thunderbolt 3 gives a promise that the transfer speed can reach up to 40 Gbps. But, the actual speed depends on how many PCI Express lanes the connection can access.
On the other hand, the old USB 2.0 port has the slowest transfer speed at 480 Mbps, and the new USB 3.1 port transfer speed is faster: 5Gbps (Gen 1) and 10 Gbps (Gen 2).
Obviously, Samsung external X5 SSD wins by its fast transfer speed.
From these data, you can see that this Samsung new SSD has read speed up to 2800 MB/s, and its write speed can reach up to 2300 MB/s.
Due to Thunderbolt 3 connection and NUMe-based NAND flash memory, this SSD can have this crazy speed. And it is said that the read speed is 25.5 times faster than the USB-BASED hard drive.
It is a wise choice to install the Windows operating system on an SSD. You may be interested in this guide: Migrate OS to SSD/HD.
Shock-resistant
But speed is not the final target of Samsung. It also has a good shock-resistant feature. It is said that this new Samsung portable SSD X5 owns shockproof internal frame and rugged metal housing which can bear a drop of up to 6.6 feet.
The frame of the SSD is a full-metal body with a glossy finish. And there is a non-slip mat on the bottom of the drive. So, it is not easy to drop or gliding across the desktop surface.
Samsung external X5 SSD has a 3-year limited warranty and it will be available all over the world from 3 Step, 2018. This excellent SSD price is higher. The manufactures’ suggested retail price starts from $399.99 of the 500GB model, $699.99 of the 1TB model, and $1399.99 of the 2TB model.
Key Specifications
Read here, you may want to know the specifications of this Samsung External X5 SSD. Actually, you can get them from the following tablet:
About The Author
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Stella has been working in MiniTool Software as an English Editor for more than 8 years. Her articles mainly cover the fields of data recovery including storage media data recovery, phone data recovery, and photo recovery, videos download, partition management, and video & audio format conversions.
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