This teeny portable SSD should be on any creative pro's wishlist

The Crucial X10 portable SSD can store up to 8TB and is twice as fast as its predecessor, and just look how tiny it is!

Crucial X10 portable SSD
(Image: © Future / Ian Evenden)

Our Verdict

With an updated interface and higher transfer speed, the Crucial X10 portable SSD is a reasonably priced new entry into the world of small but capacitous drives you can fit in your pocket.

For

  • Fast transfers
  • Small and light
  • Up to 8TB

Against

  • No activity light
  • Not as fast as more expensive drives
  • Not as small as some

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Crucial’s X10 SSD is a light, compact, plastic rectangle that can carry as much as 8TB of data inside it. To access it, you can use a USB 3.2 x2 connection that gives you a transfer rate twice as fast as the previous-gen X9 (and it works on USB4 and Thunderbolt ports too). This makes it a tempting proposition for anyone who wants to carry large amounts of information between sites, or swiftly back up their cameras in the field. It’s fairly well priced too, and looks like taking a high position on the big list of the best external hard drives and SSDs for Mac and PC.

Key specifications

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Capacity

1TB - 8TB (2TB tested)

Interface

USB 3.2 Gen-2 2x2 (up to 20Gbps)

Dimensions:

50 x 65 x 10mm

Weight:

32g

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Read speed

Write speed

USB 4

1877.8 MB/s

2016.8 MB/s

USB 3.2 (10GB)

1069.3 MB/s

1037.7 MB/s

Thunderbolt 4

2003.8 MB/s

1933.3 MB/s

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Crucial X10 portable SSD score card

Attributes

Notes

Rating

Design:

A small, light plastic rectangle

4/5

Features:

Not much here apart from a USB port

3/5

Performance:

Faster than previous-gen drives

5/5

Value:

Fairly reasonably priced

4/5

The Verdict
8.7

out of 10

Crucial X10 Portable SSD

With an updated interface and higher transfer speed, the Crucial X10 portable SSD is a reasonably priced new entry into the world of small but capacitous drives you can fit in your pocket.

Ian Evenden
Freelance writer

Ian Evenden has been a journalist for over 20 years, starting in the days of QuarkXpress 4 and Photoshop 5. He now mainly works in Creative Cloud and Google Docs, but can always find a use for a powerful laptop or two. When not sweating over page layout or photo editing, you can find him peering at the stars or growing vegetables.

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