I wanted to express my sincere gratitude for the thorough and comprehensive video you created for the review. Your effort and attention to detail truly shine through, and I couldn't be more grateful. It's evident you put a lot of time and dedication into it, and it's greatly appreciated. Your insights were incredibly valuable. Thanks again for your hard work! i going to buy this SSD
After 6 months, my 4 tb X9 quit writing to the drive. Luckily for me, it still could read the drive. I transferred all my files to another drive. I'm now wary to use it until the company gives me an official explanation.
I have a x9 pro with about 600GB of data on it, last night my computer stopped recognizing it as a drive, if doesn't show up in disk management, but it does show up in safely remove hardware and media help
The X8 as well as the normal X9 have QLC-NAND and the X9 Pro has TLC-NAND. QLC SSDs can transfer data quickly but just to a limited extent. If the internal SLC cache is exhausted, the speed is extremely throttled (to around 50 MB/s). This happens when you want to transfer large amounts of data at once. The SLC cache is also dynamic - meaning it is quite large when the SSD is empty, but gets smaller the fuller it is (usually the capacity is 1/4 of the remaining storage space). TLC SSDs, on the other hand, offer a constant transfer rate. You should format it to NTFS on Windows. However, after the SSD has been filled, data has been deleted and then is filled again, the transfer rate can drop. It is important for SSDs that the TRIM command is then executed by Windows. This does not seem to happen automatically with the X9 Pro, which requires the user to do it manually or use a third-party program.
3:45 unfortunately the software to set the password promised for Sept 2023 never came out. Probably because they realised it is impossible to store a password used for hardware encryption in the keychain.
Hi! Nice video! I have a question about crucial x9 "for mac". apart from the enigmatic information that it is optimized for Mac, is there any specific difference between the regular x9 pro?
Yes it was already formatted to NTFS when I got it. I thought I needed to format it as it says on the website that they normally come as exFAT but weirdly mine weren't.
hey, can you maybe help me with this question - does this device, x9 pro specifically, work as expected when connected to an android phone with password protection on, or does the password protection need to be removed in order to be connected to and files shown on an android phone?
But... Water and drop tests are relatively - errelevent. What matters is the endurance of the drives in real world usage. That is something which remains to be seen with these SSD's Spinning HDD's work in a different way. When data is deleted, it's not actually deleted, the blocks of data are just marked as unallocated, meaning that those blocks are seen as free space and can be overwritten. With SSD's this doesn't happen and without intervention the SSD will gradually lose capacity and speed. Some of the intervention is built into the SSD, but in my Mac environment things are helped along by TRIM - or garbage collection making the used blocks available again. That being said, the blocks on an SSD can be overwritten a very limited number of times compared to an HDD, but the problem is that TRIM, although being enabled for internal SSD's it's not enabled on USB connected SSD's. All SSD's are not created equal and there are several types which have correspondingly varying life spans. Consumer grade have the lowest life expectancy but there are enterprise SSD's, server grade, which do have good endurance, but at a cost. Also worth noting is that you can fill a HDD with data then put is in a safe for 20years then take it out and all the data will be there. SSD's lose data, or fade, when left unpowered for extended periods. It's a very good idea to find out the TBW, or terrabytes written before fail figures stated by the manufacturer for any particular SSD before selecting one to put your money into as evidenced by the Sandisk debarkle - And then do your spash and drop tests 🤣
I wonder if I can get x10 full speed on my scar 17 2022 laptop. Website says it has 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C DisplayPort 1.4/100W power delivery 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A 1x Thunderbolt 4 with DisplayPort 1.4
I thought the read and write speeds of USB 3.1 and 3.2 devices were measured in 5-20 gigabytes per sec depending on the device they are interacting with. Why are these so slow?!
Some sale going on currently for each of them except Crucial X9. Name Price in EUR for 2GB and Price in EUR for 4GB Crucial X10 Pro Portable SSD 232 382 Crucial X9 Pro Portable SSD 132 242 Crucial X9 Portable SSD 151 274 Crucial X6 Portable SSD 107 212 Crucial X8 Portable SSD 112 227
@@NinjaKiller1022 5:09 transfering files from her PC's SSD to the drive averaged ~990MB. Going from the drive to the PC's SSD I only saw it peak at ~1300MB and the speeds were inconsistent.
