Crucial X10 Pro 2TB Portable SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2023-12-12

While the X9 Pro drive can be considered a good mainstream variant, the X10 Pro is really impressive in terms of both read/write performance for an USB 3.2 Gen2 2x2 drive, staying on top with other high-end models we have tested in the past. At its heart it does pack a Silicon Motion SM2320 controller and durable Micron 176L 3D TLC NAND ICs, which are able to hold a high transfer rate for quite a bit!

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Drive Behavior during Continuous Write

In order to continue with the second stage of our tests, we needed to fill up the drive over 50% of its capacity. During this time, we did monitor the transfer speeds and we were especially interested if drops in speed do occur; the one-thread writes started at about 1.13-1.15GB/s:

 

 

 

Even after 370GB of data written, the transfer speed remained about the same:

 

 

 

We were surprised that we could write more than 1TB of data to the drive, the transfer speed remaining the same after filling the drive over 50%!

 

 

 

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