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Samsung’s Portable SSD X5 is all about being fast

Portable SSD X5

Samsung has uncovered its first NVMe-based convenient SSD, the Portable SSD X5, which is focused at IT professionals and content makers who need to exchange substantial documents rapidly. It has a perused speed of up to 2,800MB/s and a write speed of 2,300MB/s (2,100 MB/s for the 500GB model).

Those read and write speeds, joined with 40Gbps-transmission capacity Thunderbolt 3 availability, will give Portable SSD X5 proprietors a chance to exchange a 20GB record in as meager as 12 seconds, Samsung claims.

The quick exchange rate ought to demonstrate helpful for those working with 4K video records or high-resolution photographs, for example. In any case, you’ll require a Mac or PC with a Thunderbolt 3 port; the X5 isn’t backward compatible and won’t work with USB. The drive weighs 150 grams and incorporates a shock-resistant interior frame, measures to prevent the X5 from overheating and data protection with AES 256-piece equipment encryption. The X5, which has a supercar-enlivened outline, goes marked down September 3rd for $400 (500GB), $700 (1TB) or $1,400 (2TB). It additionally conveys a three-year limited guarantee.

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