Crucial X8 1TB Portable SSD - Up to 1050MB/s - PC and Mac - USB 3.2 External Solid State Drive - CT1000X8SSD9

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Digital storage capacity 1 TB
Hard disk interface USB 3.2
Connectivity technology USB
Brand Crucial
Special feature Portable
Hard disk form factor 2.5 Inches
Hard disk description Solid State Hard Drive
Compatible devices Laptop, Gaming Console, Desktop, Tablet, Smartphone
Installation type External Hard Drive
Colour Black

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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 with USB-C 3. 1 Gen2 and USB-A connectors
  • 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 warranty
  • Backed by Micron, one of the largest manufacturers of flash storage in the world

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Customer ratings
4.44.4 out of 5 stars30,166
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Crucial X8 External SSD
Crucial X8 External SSD
Crucial X8 External SSD
Crucial X8 External SSD
Crucial X8 External SSD

1. Some of the storage capacity is used for formatting and other purposes and is not available for data storage. 1GB equals 1 billion bytes.

2. Compatibility may vary and may be contingent on device formatting and host capabilities.

3. Compatible Android devices must be able to work with USB Mass Storage over OTG. Operating system updates and reformatting may be required.

4. iPadOS 13 required for the Crucial X8 to work with iPad devices with USB-C port.

Product description

Protect your memories with the Crucial X8 Portable SSD — back up important photos, videos, and documents with up to 2TB capacity. Expand storage on your PS4, Xbox One, iPad Pro, Android device, or simply free up space on your computer quickly with speeds up to 1050 MB/s. The Crucial X8 runs up to 1.8x faster than other portable SSDs and up to 7.5x faster than portable HDDs. Store with confidence on the Crucial X8.

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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I have a 1 TB version of this disk which continues to work flawlessly after several months.My recent purchase of the 2 TB versions triggered by a recent failure of a magnetic drive - probably the 5th such failure in the past year. To be fair, several of these have served well for many years, though a couple failed prematurely, in my opinion. Anyway, over the past decades I have often repurposed both internal and external drives and so decided to move to the newer technology with the hope that their longevity will be better than the mechanical drives and with their great speed etc. will in general serve better for the future. And the prices of the very fast SSDs have come down a lot.I am using this drive on the Thunderbolt 3 (TB3) port of a Mac Mini (2018) running macOS Mojave (10.14.6) as a Time Machine backup drive using Mac encryption. This drive is overkill for such a purpose, but as I mentioned, it will likely be repurposed as time goes by if it proves durable. I used the drive without reformatting and it seemed to work as expected for about two weeks. However, due to some event overnight the Mac issued a message that the disk had failed and recommended running the disk utility to repair. I did that (see attached) and it also failed and urged me to try again from Recovery, which I did, but Disk Utility First Aid again failed.Frustrated, I rebooted the Mac, noted that the Crucial 2TB seemed to be recognized and that the files on it seemed to be intact, so I have just continued to use it as it is and for the past month it has worked completely as expected. So I ran Disk Utility first Aid again and got the same result as previously. I confess that I do not understand the error message that refers to using the disk for booting. So, it could be a ticking time bomb that will get me eventually, or it could be unimportant for my current use. For now I am still using it and am satisfied with its performance.If this SSD should have other problems, I will modify my comment So far, it seems to be working fine, though the Mac error is disconcerting.
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shoppy online
5.0 out of 5 stars So tiny and dark it might get lost!
Reviewed in Canada on February 5, 2024
Capacity : 2TBStyle: X6 - up to 800MB/sVerified Purchase
At 2Tb, the Crucial solid-state drive (SSD )is thin, small, and symmetrical. The first one we purchased had a non-working USB-C cable, however we were able to exchange it for another one at no cost to us, and no refund-then-repurchase runaround.

It is not the fastest advertised speed out there (search Sandisk Extreme) but compared to the old hard-disk drives (HDDs) that we have been using, this is fast enough, and we barely have the hardware to take advantage of its maximum speeds.

This capacity meant that photos and videos taking up storage on our cell phones could be backed up, with plenty of room for games, music, and videos. Note that 2Tb isn't a lot of room for 4K video editing or anything like that; for daily household and school uses this is plenty.

The plug is USB-C, so your tv must have that type of plug (or you buy a USB-A adapter separately), and your tv can read 2Tb hard drives (most have capacity limits) if you want to plug that into a tv. For a monitor you will need a computer to read its contents as well as a USB-C cable, or an adapter.

My worry is that because it's so small and it's the colour black, one of these days I will drop it, it bounces on the floor, and lose it. I suppose I could put a bright sticker on it but I don't know how that will affect its heat dissipation. So far it's safe, being treated well and I haven't travelled with it much. Once the child gets older they will get one of these as well; at their age they will most likely lose it (heck, I might lose it, it is THAT small).

Great purchase.
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Duda
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in Canada on July 14, 2024
Capacity : 500GBStyle: X6 - up to 540MB/sVerified Purchase
Works perfectly, very sturdy and size is portable. Great quality
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Chroma
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely tiny, but packs a mighty punch.
Reviewed in Canada on May 29, 2022
Capacity : 4TBStyle: X6 - up to 800MB/sVerified Purchase
I really like this thing. For the longest time, I was using LaCie's Porsche USB-C drives due to their high storage to value ratio and durable design. However, at the end of the day, they were still 5400-7200 RPM drives inside very nice shells. Quick aside, the old Porsche shells were so sharp, one actually sliced my finger open when I tried to extract the drive from it. These drives are quite solid overall, but are definitely heavy, and they have to constantly re-index and load content. I'd pull up a video on them and 75% of the time, they have a 10-15 second buffer to start playing the content again. Sometimes it would even do this mid-playback.

This tiny little thing has had no such problems. As a true SSD, it is 100% silent and loads content in an instant. Not once since I've had it has it lagged, buffered or crashed anything I've loaded from it. It's so small that it's not a detrimental add to a travel kit, it's a storage peace-of-mind for practically no downsides.

I will say, it's overall not as fast as the SSD in the M1 Pro MacBook Pro I connect it to. However, Apple sticks ridiculously fast drives in these, I honestly don't know many other drives that don't cost the same as a new MacBook that can rival the speeds of those. Past that little comparison, these are nice and speedy, and honestly well worth the additional investment. Maybe you don't need 4TB like I do, but the smaller capacity should still very much impress.
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wohlstand1
4.0 out of 5 stars It works... but only on USB-C port on new consoles
Reviewed in Canada on November 24, 2023
Capacity : 4TBStyle: X8Verified Purchase
I purchased this Crucial X8 4tb SSD to replace my external HHD. While they provide a usb-c to usb-a dongle in the box, you cannot use it to plug your device on the back ports. It only works when using the usb-c to usb-c cable plugged on the front port of the PS5 (and Xbox Series X). Since I own a PSVR2, this consisted of a nuisance, and I therefore chose to return it.

Still, if you own a PS5 of the new generation (with usb-c port in the back) or do not need your from usb-c port for PSVR, then it performs well and allows similar loading times for your PS4 titles on it as if they were on the console's main drive.
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DodoBey
5.0 out of 5 stars Little yet powerful external SSD
Reviewed in Canada on January 28, 2024
Capacity : 2TBStyle: X8Verified Purchase
It's little, easy to carry, and fast SSD. Smaller than my mouse and as little as a credit card but so capable.

- It comes with a USB-C to USB-C cable and USB-C to USB-A converter.
- Seems durable and solid.
- Fast enough to transfer big files. It has an average of 500mb/s of writing speed, depending on the situation and the file type, and can go up to around 1000mb/s which is fast enough for most cases.
- Comes with 3 years of warranty.

Got it during the black friday and highly recommended!
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DodoBey
5.0 out of 5 stars Little yet powerful external SSD
Reviewed in Canada on January 28, 2024
It's little, easy to carry, and fast SSD. Smaller than my mouse and as little as a credit card but so capable.

- It comes with a USB-C to USB-C cable and USB-C to USB-A converter.
- Seems durable and solid.
- Fast enough to transfer big files. It has an average of 500mb/s of writing speed, depending on the situation and the file type, and can go up to around 1000mb/s which is fast enough for most cases.
- Comes with 3 years of warranty.

Got it during the black friday and highly recommended!
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jesse
5.0 out of 5 stars great multi-purchase
Reviewed in Canada on February 18, 2024
Capacity : 2TBStyle: X6 - up to 800MB/sVerified Purchase
great brand, reliable product. i own a couple x8s and an x6, and recently bought one of these for my best friend to back up her files. i am no expert but have a modest understanding of external storage, i would say very good read/write speeds (usually moving files 40-50 gigs or less at a time), gets a little warm when plugged in for long periods/transferring but not to the extent where it makes me uncomfortable (and it's expected frankly for how fast it operates). have not had any issues yet, they are all product of thailand. very impressive.
fair warning, the x6s do not come with the usb-a adapter like the x8s do. if you do not have enough usb c ports or any at all, they sell the adapters separate.
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jesse
5.0 out of 5 stars great multi-purchase
Reviewed in Canada on February 18, 2024
great brand, reliable product. i own a couple x8s and an x6, and recently bought one of these for my best friend to back up her files. i am no expert but have a modest understanding of external storage, i would say very good read/write speeds (usually moving files 40-50 gigs or less at a time), gets a little warm when plugged in for long periods/transferring but not to the extent where it makes me uncomfortable (and it's expected frankly for how fast it operates). have not had any issues yet, they are all product of thailand. very impressive.
fair warning, the x6s do not come with the usb-a adapter like the x8s do. if you do not have enough usb c ports or any at all, they sell the adapters separate.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Problems since day 1, endless crashes and lost data
Reviewed in Canada on May 8, 2024
Capacity : 4TBStyle: X8Verified Purchase
Since day 1, this drive has been very slow and unreliable. My primary machine is a Mac, and it would sometimes not mount (and Disk Utility would not open). In those cases, I would "usually" be able to mount it on a Windows 10 machine, and run disk repair, and then be able to re-mount it on the Mac. So initially I thought it was just some temporary issue, maybe a Mac issue, yadda-yadda.

The reality is that the drive is completely unusable. I have lost tons of data on it, and been completely unable to recover. The drive is clearly defective as any attempts to test the read/write speeds or use the drive in general constantly result in drive stalls.

Normally I would just chalk this up to a loss and not think too much about it, but this is my SECOND crucial drive purchase (the first one being an internal SSD), and that one ALSO DIED prematurely. So, I no longer trust the brand at all.

Sadly, although I've had problems with this drive since day 1, I thought they might not be so serious, so I kept using the drive way past the return window. An expensive lesson learned.
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Amazon Customer
1.0 out of 5 stars Problems since day 1, endless crashes and lost data
Reviewed in Canada on May 8, 2024
Since day 1, this drive has been very slow and unreliable. My primary machine is a Mac, and it would sometimes not mount (and Disk Utility would not open). In those cases, I would "usually" be able to mount it on a Windows 10 machine, and run disk repair, and then be able to re-mount it on the Mac. So initially I thought it was just some temporary issue, maybe a Mac issue, yadda-yadda.

The reality is that the drive is completely unusable. I have lost tons of data on it, and been completely unable to recover. The drive is clearly defective as any attempts to test the read/write speeds or use the drive in general constantly result in drive stalls.

Normally I would just chalk this up to a loss and not think too much about it, but this is my SECOND crucial drive purchase (the first one being an internal SSD), and that one ALSO DIED prematurely. So, I no longer trust the brand at all.

Sadly, although I've had problems with this drive since day 1, I thought they might not be so serious, so I kept using the drive way past the return window. An expensive lesson learned.
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Mari
5.0 out of 5 stars Buena compra
Reviewed in Mexico on April 30, 2024
Capacity : 4TBStyle: X6 - up to 800MB/sVerified Purchase
He utilizado ya por meses y es muy práctico, fácil de transportar, de usar y además con gran capacidad.
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Ivam Henriques
5.0 out of 5 stars Compacto e eficiente
Reviewed in Brazil on March 6, 2024
Capacity : 500GBStyle: X6 - up to 540MB/sVerified Purchase
Tamanho compacto, ultra leve. Boa usabilidade e velocidade.
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Ruben L. A.
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy buena unidad de disco de estado sólido externa.
Reviewed in Mexico on October 30, 2023
Capacity : 1TBStyle: X8Verified Purchase
Esta unidad SSDes de muy buena calidad y muy alta velocidad. La estoy utilizando en una iMac de 2017 que traía disco duro y funcionaba muy lenta. Reinstalé el sistema operativo en el SSD conectado al puerto USB C y funciona con mucha velocidad aún con los programas de diseño más pesados, casi tan rápido como las nuevas Mac. Es una enorme mejora en el desempeño, particularmente cuando se usa software demandante de recursos. Lo recomiendo ampliamente.
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Martin M. Hernandez Tena
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente y muy buen funcionamiento
Reviewed in Mexico on September 28, 2023
Capacity : 4TBStyle: X8Verified Purchase
El disco lo puse de entrada en un HUB UGREEN con el convertidor USB-A que viene incluido y la lectura era de aproximadamente 345 MB/s No tenía otro puerto USB-C libre en la Macbook Pro ya que tengo un Pen Display pero ya después lo que hice fue conectar dicho Pen Display por HDMI en el HUB y conectar el SSD en el puerto USB-C de la mac y subió a entre 687 a 745 MB/s en escritura y en lectura 763 MB/s lo que mejoró significativamente. Estoy muy contento con la unidad Crucial X8 SSD. Son 4TB, el material excelente, casi no se calienta . Muy recomendable!!
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Martin M. Hernandez Tena
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente y muy buen funcionamiento
Reviewed in Mexico on September 28, 2023
El disco lo puse de entrada en un HUB UGREEN con el convertidor USB-A que viene incluido y la lectura era de aproximadamente 345 MB/s No tenía otro puerto USB-C libre en la Macbook Pro ya que tengo un Pen Display pero ya después lo que hice fue conectar dicho Pen Display por HDMI en el HUB y conectar el SSD en el puerto USB-C de la mac y subió a entre 687 a 745 MB/s en escritura y en lectura 763 MB/s lo que mejoró significativamente. Estoy muy contento con la unidad Crucial X8 SSD. Son 4TB, el material excelente, casi no se calienta . Muy recomendable!!
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Wade Manns
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT drive, fast and small!
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2023
Capacity : 2TBStyle: X6 - up to 800MB/sVerified Purchase
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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Wade Manns
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT drive, fast and small!
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2023
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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