Crucial X6

Not the speediest or most stylish, but it’s compact and lower capacities are great value.

LABS 1TB,$120 | crucial.com READ 447MB/sec WRITE 412MB/sec The first thing you notice about the Crucial X6 is how small it is; not far off USB thumb drive size (69 x 64 x 11mm). The second thing is its price, which is among the lowest in this test. A fact reflected by its minimalist black plastic case, adorned only by the Crucial logo. But more crucially, if you’ll forgive the terrible pun, the price is reflected by its speed. Crucial promises read speeds of up to 540MB/sec over its USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 connection, but it failed to reach even this modest target. An average of 447MB/sec reads and 412MB/sec writes across our tests means you’ll be left waiting for big files to copy across – a 10GB file took…

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