Crucial X6 2TB portable SSD
1. Introduction/Retail Package
Crucial, a well known flash memory company, recently announced a new portable series storage devices called the X6 series. This new line of products aims for road warriors who want big storage capacities, with good reading/writing speeds and of course proper priced. Today we will examine the Crucial X6 2TB external storage device.
- Features
Your digital life stored at your fingertips: How much can you carry between the tips of your fingers? With the Crucial® X6 Portable SSD, the answer is: A lot! Whether you’re downloading videos for offline travel, organizing family photos, collaborating with classmates, or heading off on a great adventure, the Crucial X6 is affordable, and ready to go wherever you do.
The SSD that takes you where HDD can’t: With speeds up to 3.8x faster than most traditional HDDs, the Crucial X6 lets you load and transfer files fast and get back to your day. Say goodbye to slow, fragile hard drives and lengthy load times forever.
Tiny drive. Huge capacity: With up to 2TB capacity, take your digital life with you. Massive photo libraries, files, games, and movie collections can now all fit in your pocket. At less than 42 grams, the Crucial X6 weighs less than your car keys.
Reliability and durability are Crucial: The Crucial X6 is tested to withstand a 6.5-foot drop, and is shock, vibration, and extreme temperature resistant — safeguarding your important files wherever you go.
Ready for anything: The X6 portable SSD is the storage device that works with most everything: PC, Mac, PS4, Xbox One, Android devices, and more6. USB-C ready straight out of the box.
- Specifications
Storage |
1TB, 2TB |
Interface |
USB 3.1 Gen-2 Type-C (10Gb/s)
- Backwardly compatible with USB 3.2 Gen-1/USB 3.1 Gen-1/USB 3.0 (5Gb/s) |
Sequential Read Speed |
Up to
540MB/s |
Sequential Write Speed |
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Form Factor |
external USB-type C device |
Endurance (Total Bytes Written) |
120 TB |
Dimensions |
11 mm L x 69 mm W x 64 mm H |
| Weight |
42grams |
Warranty Length Limited |
3-Year Warranty |
- The Package/Overview
The Crucial X6 2TB portable SSD comes at a price of ~$220 over Crucial's website, The retail box is rather typical for a Crucial product and has all the logos for users to identify it. Inside the retail box you will find the portable SSD drive, among with Type-C to Type-C USB cable and a short manual:
The product is really tiny with 64mm x 69mm dimension
The X6 series also come with an 1TB variant with much lower price of ~$120.
- Installation
Not much to be said here, just get the drive and plug it at an empty USB 2.0/3.0 ports. The drive came preformatted at exFAT file system and has an empty space for users around 1.81TB
The Crucial Storage Executive Software didn't recognized the product, however the CrystalDiskInfo software gives us more details:
