Crucial's X6 Portable SSD is a good basic external drive for everyday use and small backups, but its performance and build will fall short for incessant file movers and active users.

Crucial's X6 USB SSD operates at good SATA speeds, and it fits a ton of NAND storage into a very affordable, compact, and comfortable design.

The portable SSD market has been steadily expanding thanks to the increasing digital footprint of consumers. Content creators find themselves capturing photos and videos at higher and higher resolutions and bit-rates, while gamers are encountering...

Bus-powered portable flash-based storage solutions are one of the growing segments in the consumer-focused direct-attached storage market. The emergence of 3D NAND with TLC and QLC has brought down the cost of such drives. NAND manufacturers like...

With the Crucial X6, the SSD price-performance ratio fell below my buy now threshold, and the X6 instantly became a critical part of my kit, especially my travel kit. I love it.

A year after it was launched, Crucial has tweaked the X6 portable SSD design and made it even better value than it already was

Mediocre storage in a small form factor.

Today we will be taking a look at two portable solid state drives from Crucial, their X6 and X8. These drives are very similar, except that the X6 is a USB 3.2 gen 1 drive and the X8 is a USB 3.2 gen 2 drives. So the X6 will be the slower drive with...

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...

As I promised in our last Crucial review, we'll continue our coverage of Crucial's latest memory and storage products. And now it's time to take a look at their portable SSD, which is marketed under Crucial's X6 and X8 series. In this review, we will...