Crucial X10 Pro 2TB Portable SSD – Up to 2,100MB/s Read, 2,000MB/s Write, Lightweight Storage for Photography, Videography, Gaming, Fast backups, USB 3.2 – External Solid State Drive

Great performance compared to others with similar specs.
From a realistic standpoint, the Crucial X10 Pro offers exceptional speed and durability, making it a practical choice for anyone in need of reliable portable storage.Speed: Perfect for quick file transfers, video editing, and gaming.Durability: Its rugged aluminum case handles drops and bumps, and it’s compact enough to fit in your pocket. Its lightweight design makes it less prone to impact damage.Versatile: Available in sizes from 500GB to 4TB, it’s plug-and-play with Windows, MacOS, and Android. There’s no need to worry about the size of the drive since all capacities come in the same dimensions.Security: Built-in hardware encryption keeps your data safe.Bottom Line: Although pricier, its performance and features make it a solid investment for reliable, high-speed storage. From my experience, the Crucial X10 Pro outperforms the Samsung T9 in both performance and build quality in every way.Example: In my everyday use, I transfer 800GB to 1TB of data for personal needs. The Samsung T9 transfers at 30 to 60 MB/s, while the Crucial X10 Pro achieves speeds of 300 to 500 MB/s.

Starts Getting Critical Disk Errors
I bought two of the 4TB Crucial X10 Pro Drives in early September. I used the same methods to format them in APFS Encryption for my Mac Mini computer. In early November, one of the drives would not open due to encryption errors, which my Mac stated was a “disk error”. It was impossible to run the Mac Disk Utility on it since it would not open up due to encryption errors. Finally, I erased it and changed it to APFS unencrypted. File copying back to it was okay until the drive was about 20 percent full, then it indicated drive errors.Running the Mac Disk Utility on it revealed that the drive was corrupt and cannot be repaired. I contacted customer service at Crucial since it was too late to return the drive to Amazon for a replacement. Within a few minutes, I reached a customer service representative with an accent so bad it was extremely hard to understand him, especially since I am hearing impaired. Finally he asked that I send (via email) information including photos of the drive, the Amazon invoice, etc. I am still awaiting an answer from Crucial over three days later for a drive that is not just used by copying backup files, but I actually use as a primary data drive for my Mac Mini. The performance of the one drive is awesome, but the other drive is next to useless and I am still waiting for Crucial to send a replacement and to answer my email. By the way, Crucial has a disk management program for Windows that allows you to troubleshoot their drives; but not for Apple Macs. Not impressed. I would not buy this drive again.

Comes with odd partitioning
First off, this is a wonderful SSD. It is lightning fast, and, aside from some initial issues, compatible with a huge range of devices and operating systems. It’s probably the fastest external SSD that I have ever personally used, but I don’t have benchmarks or anything to back that up. I was able to move 400 gigabytes of downloads from my computer to the drive in less than 30 minutes. The compatibility with crucial storage executive is also useful.However. They did something incredibly stupid and I’m having trouble trying to figure out exactly why. Instead of formatting the entire drive as a single partition with a common format such as exFAT, they broke it up into two partitions. One partition is the main drive, and is formatted like you would expect, but in front of that is a very tiny unknown partition. That causes severe issues on Android, because Android tries to mount the first disk/partition that it comes across, and since crucial decided to put an apparently pointless and unformatted partition right at the front of the drive, that’s the one that Android sees. So unless you go in and nuke the partitions and reformat the whole drive, you’re going to have compatibility issues depending on what you plug this into. I have no conceivable idea why they would have this second tiny partition. It was only a few hundred megabytes, not big enough to really hold anything substantial. It didn’t seem to have a file system that could be recognized by any disc software that I’m aware of, and it’s apparently not necessary for using with the crucial storage executive (which I initially suspected). Removing all of the partitions and reformatting the drive does not affect its ability to be managed by the crucial storage executive. So… There’s literally no reason that they should have put this partition in, and all it does is decrease the capabilities of the drive, so whoever made this decision is some kind of idiot. (Edit: It’s almost infinitely unlikely, but it’s possible, in the most exotic and extreme sense, that they use this partition to store extra blocks of NAND to compensate as individual cells fail. If this is the case, this is the dumbest implementation I’ve ever seen on an SSD. Usually they are under-provisioned at the hardware and firmware level, and the firmware has access to a little bit more flash memory than the operating system does. When cells fail, they activate the appropriate number of reserve cells, extending the useful life and preserving the actual capacity of the drive. Again, I emphasize, this almost is required to be done at the firmware level. Implementing this with some kind of hidden partition just doesn’t make sense. The user should never see the over-provisioned flash memory reserved for repairs. If this is indeed the case, I recommend not using this drive, as it is designed with an inherent fault. However, since I’ve never seen this done anywhere else, I doubt that’s the case. It’s just literally the only thing I could think of.)There’s a decent chance that that complaint doesn’t apply to you, but for those who use it in a professional IT or with multi-device administration, it’s not going to behave quite the way you expect right out the box.

It saves files. And frees up space.
Nicely made, very tiny. Mounts on my MACOS desktop with no fuss. I’m not trying to edit/save video to/from this drive in real time. So speed is not of the essence. But copies my 128GB SD card data over in a few seconds. As a solution to free up space on my laptop SSD, I am not sure what else one could need?

I connected this to my laptop which was getting full. I moved a bunch of high resolution images to it and it is FAST! This is the fastest external drive I’ve ever had. Since it has a drive letter assigned, it is now included in my backblaze backup (which offers unlimited size for all drives on a computer). I used to use a NAS to store backups, but this is so easy, less expensive, and with backblaze cloud backup, just as dependable.The other bonus is how tiny this drive is. I was pleasantly surprised to see how small it really is.

Easy to use, very small, very fast. Ideal for data backup, use with mobile phone, large video projects or just as general storage. Its very fast and reliable. This is the 2nd of the Crucial Pro SSD lineup I have, not one issue or fault. I often write and remove 400-500GB at a time, very speedy. Would recommend!I use this for transferring large video projects, excellent device and works well with full range of devices.Use: 2TB model, also use the X9 version too, again a very solid, reliable device.