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Samsung has been in the portable SSD business for a while now. The back in 2015, with the and coming in at a yearly cadence. Keeping with tradition, today we see the release of a new model on a new interface – Samsung’s new Portable SSD X5: (970 EVO included for scale) While the ‘T’ branded predecessors were USB 3.0 and 3.1 (Gen1 – limited to 5Gbps), Samsung has now jumped onto the Thunderbolt 3 bandwagon, taking a firmware-tweaked (for encryption) 970 EVO and placing it behind an Intel Alpine Ridge DSL6340 Thunderbolt 3 controller. Specs of note are the nearly 3GB/s sequential read speed. 2.3GB/s writes are nothing to sneeze at, either. No random performance noted here, but we will fix that with our test suite later on in the article. Nice packaging and presentation. Read on for our review of the Samsung Portable SSD X5!
