Samsung has announced Portable SSD X5, its first NVMe 1-based portable solid state drive (SSD) with Thunderbolt 3 support. Thank s to Thunderbolt 3’s 40Gbps bandwidth – up to four times faster than USB 3.13 – the X5 offers a read speed of up to 2,800 MB/s, which is up to 5.2 times faster than the widely used SATA interface portable SSDs and up to 25.5 times faster than external HDDs. It offers fastest maximum write speed of 2,300 MB/s5, enabling users to transfer a 20GB-sized 4K UHD video in just 12 seconds. Continue reading “Samsung Portable SSD X5 with Thunderbolt 3 offers up to 2800MBps transfer speed”