Samsung X5 Thunderbolt 3 Portable SSD Features Exceptional Speeds

Samsung today unveiled its first NVMe-based portable solid state drive (SSD) - the Samsung Portable SSD X5 - achieving new levels of performance and reliability for external storage solutions. Thanks to Thunderbolt 3's 40Gbps bandwidth - up to four times faster than USB 3.1 -the X5 offers a read speed of up to 2,800 MB/s, which is up to 5.2 times faster than the widely used SATA interface portable SSDs and up to 25.5 times faster than external HDDs. The drive also boasts the fastest maximum writ...