Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Crucial X10 Pro 4TB Portable SSD - Up to 2100MB/s Read, 2000MB/s Write - Water and dust Resistant, PC and Mac, with Mylio Photos+ Offer - USB 3.2 External Solid State Drive

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2024

I don't cloud files. I prefer to have them locally. Because of that strange habit, I have to take everyday an portable driver with me from home to work and vice versa. So I bought this SSD with 4TB (yeah, I need that much), to carry my lectures, sounds, videos with me everywhere I go. And this SSD has done the job perfectly. And it is beautiful.

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Erica

Compact Portable and Fast

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024

Capacity: 2TBVerified Purchase

I was surprised when I received the drive how compact this is. Fits in the palm of your hand. Sturdy and the best part portable! I am using it between my gaming PC and laptop. Plenty of space. I am running BG 3, Witcher3 and AC Mirage on either computer from this drive. I haven't tried connecting the Xbox X yet but I am sure it will work fine. Also went on the crucial site. Downloaded the storage program, this you should do. While registering the product - "Hey what's this?" a PC scan tool? Add 16 MB ram? Add 1TB SSD drive? Yup lets do it! Of course... being an adult child at 50... while your at it may as well upgrade the graphics card, processor, power supply... I mean... adding the ram and SSD means I need to open the case so.. stands to reason right?

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Blaine Miller

Wanted something small and fast for my new iPhone 15 Pro Max

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2023

Capacity: 4TBVerified Purchase

This little drive is definitely fast. On my macbook pro M1 Pro computer it maxes out the capabilities of the thunderbolt 4 port with what the apple silicon chips can support ( a maximum of 10 Gbps and about 900MB/s realized ) since apple silicon chips do not yet support usb 3.1 gen 2 2x2 and cannot use beyond 10Gbps. This drive is honestly still faster than my Sandisk 1050MB/s externall SSD and by about 200MB/s and so it is nice to see it pass a lot of tests for editing up to 8k60 footage off of it. I can only record in 4k60 with my camera gear but I have no doubts this drive will work plenty fast for my needs. I wanted 4TB to be able to throw a FCPX project directly on the drive and edit off of it in a pinch since my Macbook pro is only 1TB. This drive should be fast enough to achive that and copying 800GB in a little over 30 minutes is very impressive indeed. I also bought a cheap metal ring that I adhered to the side of this drive so I can use magsafe to hold it to the back of my phone. This drive is useful for capturing 4k60 Log footage from my iphone and the width is almost as wide as a magsafe ring so that worked nicely. The drive is light and has an activity light too. The drive is tiny compared to what I was expected having used the sandisk drives already. Also the price was a little cheaper than the sandisk option and comes with a 5 year warranty. Im not sure what more you could ask for. Hopefully it lasts a good long while but if not at least I have 5 years of some form of included warranty that I'd imagine they would replace the drive. If your looking for an easy solution to mount an External SSD to the back of your iphone this one should work just fine.

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Stephen van Scoyoc

May not measure up in practice...read on.

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2024

Capacity: 4TBVerified Purchase

This is an excellent bit of kit but may not be a good value depending on your equipment. My work is mostly processing videos up to 4K using a maxed out Surface Pro 8, an external GPU, and a variety of external drives and caddies. By far external USB SSD drives are fantastic and blisteringly fast. However, regardless of the rated speed of the drive, your bottleneck is likely to be the port on your computer or hub. The key is whether you are using a Thunderbolt 3/4 port or a USB4. The two are compatible BUT a USB device plugged into a Thunderbolt port will be capped at 1,000 mb/s. As far as I'm aware, currently, most high speed ports are Thunderbolt so this drive will not run at the max rated speed. I also purchased at the same time the Crucial X9 and it runs at the same speed (about 850 mb/s). A Samsung T7 also runs at the same speed. So, check your hardware carefully before paying extra for speed you may not be able to use. For comparison, in my setup, a caddy hosted standard 2.5 drive runs about 50 mb/s, a 3.5 drive runs about 100 mb/s, and a Samsung SSD at about 350 mb/s. These tiny USB external drives like the Crucial are the way forward if you use laptops and/or need portability.

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Ryan W Patterson

Drive stopped working, Crucial won't send a replacement.

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024

Capacity: 2TBVerified Purchase

BEWARE: I am currently dealing with Crucial to try and use the warranty/RMA prcoess to replace the drive that stopped working after about 60 days. This already sucks because I transferred all of my games over to this drive to clear up room on my PC...and now I lost all of my save data.

I have sent about 10 screenshots at this point, tested this drive on three computers (where it still doesn't recognize the SSD) and they are still wanting more information. At this point, I get the feeling like I'm going to be ripped off. I will update this posted if they actually replace the drive, but I have serious doubts. I read reviews of their customer service (after the fact), and I'm coming to the realization that I am probably being scammed. So I'm most likely going to take a $160 hit for trusting this company, and I want to help other people avoid this.

DO NOT BUY FROM CRUCIAL. The product may work for a little while, but you will get no help from them if it malfunctions.

To Crucial: Replace my drive like you should, and I'll update this review.

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jnish

Small, Fast and Dependable

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024

Capacity: 4TBVerified Purchase

Originally purchased Crucial X10 Pro Portable SSD in 4TB size and had to return as found didn’t work with Panasonic LUMIX S5IIX that has a limit of 2TB.

Ended-up purchasing a Crucial X10 Pro Portable SSD 2TB size to record directly to Panasonic LUMIX S5IIX via camera’s USB-C port in various formats - jpeg, raw stills and up to Prores 422 at 1.6Gbps videos during international trip for 14 days straight working the camera and SSD at least 8 hours a day and all worked amazingly well. There was just 1 instance the camera stated it was unable to record to the SSD about 2 seconds after I pressed the camera’s record button. However, that could have been related to the camera and it was quickly resolved by turning off and on the camera, and happened just once in 14 days of straight full day use.

Importantly, when returned home and plugged the SSD directly into my 2023 MacBook Pro, all still and video footage was able to instantly play back in real-time directly from the SSD. Of course also transferred entire SSD recorded content of over 1TB of data to a backup drive which was extremely fast to complete. I ended-up purchasing another 2TB Crucial SSD - Highly recommended SSD!!! Hope this helps :-)

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Maldoc

Decent Portable SSD but Falls Short of Expectations

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2023

Capacity: 4TBVerified Purchase

I recently purchased the Crucial X10 Pro 4TB Portable SSD and wanted to provide some initial thoughts. Overall, this is a reasonably well-made portable solid-state drive that provides ample storage space in a compact form factor. However, it falls a bit short in some key areas compared to claims made by the manufacturer.

The size and portability are excellent. The drive is quite small, just a little thicker but shorter than a credit card, and easy to slip into a bag or pocket. The rugged aluminum housing also seems durable enough for everyday use.

In terms of performance though, I'm not getting quite the speeds advertised. Transfer rates are closer to 10x slower compared to the claimed read/write speeds. It's still reasonably fast, but not as fast as one would expect.

Additionally, the available capacity is less than the advertised 4TB. After formatting, only 3.63TB of the drive was usable. This may be due to different calculations of what constitutes a terabyte, but it's a noticeable difference from what's on the box.

I'm also still trying to figure out if this drive supports any kind of encryption. It was not clearly mentioned in the documentation, and I have not found any settings for enabling encryption yet. Data security is important to me, so I hope this is something that can be added later via a firmware update if it's not already supported.

Overall, the Crucial X10 Pro is a decent portable SSD in terms of size, portability and reasonable speeds. However, it falls short of expectations when it comes to performance, available capacity out of the box, and encryption support. I will continue testing it and provide an update after more extended use. I hope Crucial can address some of these shortcomings in future revisions of this drive.

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Stase

So good for gaming

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2024

Capacity: 1TBVerified Purchase

I have a gaming laptop that has only 500GB of hard drive and that equals only a couple of games to be installed at once.
I tried a few different external drives that took ages to download games onto, but saw this recommend as one of the best.
So I gave it a try and I'm in love!
I use this as the default drive for Steam and all my other 3rd party apps. All my games start up fast, and download as fast as the internal.
Plus who doesn't love the ability to take their whole game library from one place to another?
I went 1TB to test, now buying a bigger one.
100% recommend!

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Topher

Comes with odd partitioning

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2023

Capacity: 4TBVerified Purchase

First off, this is a wonderful SSD. It is lightning fast, and, aside from some initial issues, compatible with a huge range of devices and operating systems. It's probably the fastest external SSD that I have ever personally used, but I don't have benchmarks or anything to back that up. I was able to move 400 gigabytes of downloads from my computer to the drive in less than 30 minutes. The compatibility with crucial storage executive is also useful.

However. They did something incredibly stupid and I'm having trouble trying to figure out exactly why. Instead of formatting the entire drive as a single partition with a common format such as exFAT, they broke it up into two partitions. One partition is the main drive, and is formatted like you would expect, but in front of that is a very tiny unknown partition. That causes severe issues on Android, because Android tries to mount the first disk/partition that it comes across, and since crucial decided to put an apparently pointless and unformatted partition right at the front of the drive, that's the one that Android sees. So unless you go in and nuke the partitions and reformat the whole drive, you're going to have compatibility issues depending on what you plug this into. I have no conceivable idea why they would have this second tiny partition. It was only a few hundred megabytes, not big enough to really hold anything substantial. It didn't seem to have a file system that could be recognized by any disc software that I'm aware of, and it's apparently not necessary for using with the crucial storage executive (which I initially suspected). Removing all of the partitions and reformatting the drive does not affect its ability to be managed by the crucial storage executive. So... There's literally no reason that they should have put this partition in, and all it does is decrease the capabilities of the drive, so whoever made this decision is some kind of idiot. (Edit: It's almost infinitely unlikely, but it's possible, in the most exotic and extreme sense, that they use this partition to store extra blocks of NAND to compensate as individual cells fail. If this is the case, this is the dumbest implementation I've ever seen on an SSD. Usually they are under-provisioned at the hardware and firmware level, and the firmware has access to a little bit more flash memory than the operating system does. When cells fail, they activate the appropriate number of reserve cells, extending the useful life and preserving the actual capacity of the drive. Again, I emphasize, this almost is required to be done at the firmware level. Implementing this with some kind of hidden partition just doesn't make sense. The user should never see the over-provisioned flash memory reserved for repairs. If this is indeed the case, I recommend not using this drive, as it is designed with an inherent fault. However, since I've never seen this done anywhere else, I doubt that's the case. It's just literally the only thing I could think of.)

There's a decent chance that that complaint doesn't apply to you, but for those who use it in a professional IT or with multi-device administration, it's not going to behave quite the way you expect right out the box.

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William K. Volkman

Reformat to get performance and space

Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2024

Capacity: 4TBVerified Purchase

Comes with ExFAT which both Windows and Apple hate, top write speed was 50MB/sec. I connected to Linux and reformatted with ext4 and am getting 578MB/second write speed. Never believe those "Up To" numbers that they quote - you'll never see them. Another fun fact is with ExFAT is it grossly over allocates disk space, copying 300GB of pictures off my hard drive consumed more that 2.5TB of space. When reformatted with NTFS on Windows, Apple's file system, or ext4 on Linux you only use 300GB.

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