Crucial X6
500 GBMemory Size
Product details
How much can you carry between your fingertips? With the Crucial X6 Portable SSD, the answer is: a lot! Whether you're downloading videos for offline travel, organising family photos, collaborating with classmates or heading off on a great adventure, the Crucial X6 is ready to take you anywhere.
With speeds up to 3.8x faster than a traditional hard drive, the Crucial X6 lets you load and transfer files quickly and get back to your agenda. Forget slow, fragile hard drives and long load times forever.
With a capacity of up to 2TB, you can take your digital life with you. Huge photo libraries, files, games and movie collections now fit easily in your pocket. At less than 42 grams, the Crucial X6 weighs less than your car keys.
The Crucial X6 is proven to withstand drops from a height of 2 m, it is shock and vibration resistant as well as resistant to extreme temperatures - so your important files are protected wherever you go.
The X6 portable SSD is the storage device that works with almost anything: PC, Mac, PS4, Xbox One, Android devices and more6. USB-C is already built in.
| Interface | USB-C |
| Read transfer speed | 540 MB/s |
| Write transfer speed | 560 MB/s |
| Item number | 14951033 |
30-day right of returnReturn policy
Reviews & Ratings
Statutory warranty score
How often does a product of this brand in the «External SSD» category have a defect within the first 24 months?
Source: Galaxus- 5.Synology0,5 %
- 6.SanDisk0,7 %
- 7.Crucial0,8 %
- 7.Intenso0,8 %
- 7.LaCie0,8 %
Statutory warranty case duration
How many working days on average does it take to process a warranty claim from when it arrives at the service centre until it’s back with the customer?
Source: Galaxus- 1.Verbatim0 days
- 3.Adata1 day
- 4.Crucial2 days
- 5.WD3 days
- 6.Samsung5 days
Return rate
How often is a product of this brand in the «External SSD» category returned?
Source: Galaxus- 8.WD1,1 %
- 10.Verbatim1,2 %
- 11.Crucial1,4 %
- 12.LaCie2,2 %
- 13.Adata2,3 %
- Low price
- Moderate transfer rates for large amounts of data
- moderate maximum transfer rates
SSDs are still quite expensive. However, if you are satisfied with moderate performance, you can opt for cheaper SSD models. After all, this is only relevant if you want to copy hundreds of GB of video files or create a complete backup of your Macbook Pro. Here, the somewhat older Crucial X6 offers a good compromise between performance and price, and is often available with high discounts...
- Ergonomic design
- Good everyday performance
- Favourable for an external SSD
- Performance drops when the cache is empty
The Crucial X6 Portable SSD offers solid value for money. There are much faster USB and Thunderbolt drives, but the Crucial X6 combines good performance and good design for an attractive price. The Crucial model is also ideal to take with you thanks to its compact dimensions. How many drives can you fit so comfortably in your pocket?
They are small, robust and fast: SSD hard drives offer additional storage space for documents, photos and other data. We had 40 external SSD hard drives tested. 27 were awarded the test quality rating of Good. But it's worth taking a look at the details: We discovered significant differences in price and maximum achievable speed...
- very fast
- currently somewhat expensive
- not resistant to permanent loads
Crucial's X6 Portable SSD is the only SSD in this comparison that works according to the faster USB 3.2 Gen 2. The measurements revealed some differences to the Marvel Xtreme M80, which uses the same controller. When reading large files, the X6 achieved just under 1 GByte/s, and when writing, our measured value is even slightly higher; when writing completely, however, the X6 is around 30 per cent...
- Sleek, compact, and light design
- Responsive performance within the cache and fast to recover
- Lacks an activity light
- Lacks USB-C to USB-A adapter
- Lacks hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption
- Slow after cache write is exhausted during sustained workloads
Crucial's X6 is an affordable and very portable USB Type-C SSD that dishes out fast and responsive performance, but its relatively small cache results in reduced performance during larger sustained data transfers.
- Suitable for Windows, Mac-OS and Android
- Drop-proof up to a height of 2 metres
- Little heating under load
- USB-A adapter optional
- Only 3 years warranty
An external SATA SSD in a handy format whose strength lies in reading. The purchase price is quite fair in view of the capacity.