Customer Ratings & Reviews

As a photographer, I need a lot of storage. In total, I had 10 terabytes of portable hard drives. Except for one SSD, all of them were standard drives and using them from more than 6-7 years. This SSD is much faster than the ones I had before. I bought the 8TB. Now feeling fully relaxed. I am writing the review after 5 months of experience with the drive. I hope it will last longer than my other portable drives. I like the size of it, Small but looks so premium. But I don't like the cable they provided. It was too small. The ssd is always stays connected to my computer. I had to buy a faster cable for this. I have to say this is an expensive purchase but its worth it.

Crucial - X10 8TB External USB-C SSD - Blue This item is a major improvement over my old SSD WD drives. It is much faster and holds 2TB more of data than my old storage device. For it size it is nice. So far no issues or complaints. It is a nice device with large capacity.

I finally got to use one of mine after a trip we took. It took over a terabyte of the video I took from my Insta360 and several hundred gigs of audio files so quick I thought it had errored out. It barely even got warm. I would definitely recommend this if you are going on a trip and you know you are going to be taking a lot of video or audio; it will allow you to offload the video/audio from your device without filling up your laptop.

Fast, small and reliable. The 8TB seems pricey till you check out the competitors pricing. These are a decent value. Go back a few years and tell yourself that you're going to have 8TB's in a drive smaller than your palm. This thing is incredible. I tested both thoroughly for about 36 hours each and they had ZERO bad sectors. Speeds are incredible. fantastic travel drives. If you don't need 8TB the smaller drives are much more affordable. Perfect for travel backups. I wish the case wasn't plastic, but really even if it was metal you wouldn't want to drop it. I bough EVA cases and rubber bumpers for both of my drives and I don't worry about impacts at all any longer.

The Crucial X10 External SSD is a fantastic little drive—super fast, reliable, and incredibly easy to use. File transfers are quick and smooth, and its compact design makes it perfect for on-the-go storage. It’s a great choice if you want strong performance in a portable package.

I have tons of videos and had them stored on 7200RPM ext disc drive. was running out of room and those 7200s are becoming hard to come by. (outdated technology being replaced by solid state) this device is smaller than a credit card so much more compact and much faster. wish I didn't have to spend as much as I did to get it but now that I got it it's great. super fast transfers and and upgrade in storage capacity for me. Watching the videos is a breeze now

So far, one of the smallest, fastest and largest capacity hard drives I’ve worked with. I’ve been able to work off of the hard drive with no slowdown during a full day. I don’t think this will be the only one I purchase. Only wish I could take advantage of the monitoring features only available on Windows. I’m using with a MacBook Pro

8TB fast reliable SSD storage in such a small package. We’ve come a long way in regards to storage solutions. Being able to have so much storage in a miniature package is amazing. I’ve come to love the crucial brand. I have 20TB of this small storage solution and it hasn’t let me down yet. I would recommend this brand to anyone. I use it with a Mac mini as my main storage solution and run Final Cut Pro off of it. Crucial for the win!

Great deal on Black Friday sale. The Crucial X10 8TB SSD drive is smaller than I thought but with large capacity. It's 7.2TB rather than 8TB, which is expected. I was skeptical at first as its price was much lower compared to other brands (Samsung and SanDisk), I copied some movies and games into the SSD drive, and it really held up to 7.2TB, but the writing speed dropped significantly when it passed half of its full capacity (around 4TB).

Amazing product. Real fast read and write operations. 8TB option is really great for enthusiasts:

The Crucial X10 8TB External USB-C SSD - Blue drive came in 2 days and was surprisingly small. Before opening, there is a QR code to get instructions (?) but it turns into a really annoying product registration website with constantly shifting phone screens that took 30 minutes to enter about 1 minute worth of owner information. The drive functioned great for a few days but then would disappear from file manager upon waking Windows 11 from Sleep mode, requiring me to dis- re-connect the USB-C cable. Today, the drive started cycling on/off/on while the computer (HP laptop) was in use! I quick web search led to all kinds of Windows 10 fixes to battery saver modes which selectively turn power off to USB ports. Sadly, Windows 11 is completely different. Another site gave the following solution which seems to be working at the moment: In Windows 11 you can disable the USB Selective Suspend in the device manager. 1-Right-click on Start and select Device manager. 2-Expand Universal Serial Bus controllers. 3-In this list, there are usually quite a few USB Root Hubs and USB controllers. Unless you know exactly which one your device is plugged in to, then you will need to perform this change on every hub and controller listed here. 4-Right click a Root Hub and click properties. 5-Select the “Power Management” tab. 6-Uncheck the “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power” setting and click OK. 7-Repeat as needed for the other USB Root Hubs/controllers. Good luck.

The Crucial X10 8TB is one of the best external SSD's for the price vs storage capacity vs write performance speeds. This thing is just as fast as the Crucial X10 Pro 4TB and I'm getting ~650MB/s sustained transfer rates for large files copied from onboard NVME, but also holds twice as much, but does not cost twice as much!

This hd works well and has an extra large capacity!

Love this thing man. It’s portable and an ssd so it’s one of the best on the market for the price.

nice little storage drive; teeny tiny on the outside...but huge on the inside

I purchased this drive so I could easily store a backup of all my computer files in a 3x5 safety deposit box at my bank. It's tiny size and good upload speed made it a piece of cake to do the backups and store it in the safety deposit box. It works straight out of the box, no software to download or formatting required.

Works great, very fast and convenient. Easily transfer all myndata from multiple drives to this one.

This is another great drive from crucial. Read and write speeds are fantastic. I feel confident using this drive store data on.

Great size, great price, and fast enough! Happier with this unit than the sandisk

Very small device to take with you when traveling around. A great value for the amount of storage. Would definitely recommend.