Customer Ratings & Reviews

So far so good. Like the size and convenience. We will see how this SSD holds up.

stopped working the second week I had it. Luckily I didnt empty my recycling bin yet.

I returned this item because I couldn't figure out how use it. Sorry.

I ordered the product Dec. 26, 2022. It was only shipped mid February 2023 and received the product March 16. I honestly forgot about it already and failed to report it. But at the end of the day, it’s here and hopefully it works.

It’s okay but now what I needed for , I went for a different brand

Purchased in April and the drive has already failed. Never had this issue with WD or Toshiba brands. I can see it in Disk Utility on my Mac, but I can't mount it or repair it. Tried restarting my Mac, powering off completely, unplugging the SSD, etc. Have a lot stored on this "crucial" SSD. Very disappointed with this brand.

I’m a 73 yr old. Totally disappointed that it is not a plug and play but I had to download instructions to “ boot” this thing up and couldn’t make heads or tails as to how to use it. I’m taking it back for a western digital or something I know how to use

It worked for the 3weeks with no problems. Then all of a sudden it stopped working with my computer and it can't be read. It's not detectable and I have a bunch of games on there so now I have to go buy a whole new one. I don't recommend this to anyone unless you want to buy a new one after 3 weeks.

I wouldn't recommend the drive for a few reasons: 1. The drive started failing after a few months of use. It somehow started corrupting my files and they are currently unretrievable.

Purchased this to use as an external drive to run windows on my steamdeck. Works perfectly.

The Crucial X6 1TB Portable SSD arrived a couple days ago in the late afternoon. Before launching into my review, it’s important to note that I’m not a “computer geek” – I’m just your average “Joe Lunchbox” computer user so I don’t have any magical insight to provide. The first step in going operational is to access the Crucial website and determine whether there were any firmware updates that had to be downloaded – there were none. Then I did a Quick Format for safety. After that, I immediately set about giving it a test run. My first effort was to copy almost 1.5 GB of family photos from my desktop to the Crucial external SSD. It took 9.5 seconds flat from start to finish! I’m impressed! I spent the next couple days playing around with it to make sure it stands up to my unintended but rough handling and my dogs. So far, the drive has held up to my daily use. I’ve moved it back-and-forth between my desktop and my laptop and there have been no incidents or problems so far. Data transfer from the laptop to the Crucial X6 were 300% faster than transferring the same files from my desktop. I’m not sure why but the fact that both are SSDs may have affected the speed. (Don’t forget to “eject” the Crucial X6 SDD from your computer just as you would with any other USB storage device.) The drive seems to be warm despite its lack of moving parts but, as I’ve found out, that heat buildup is due to the power it consumes. This is a very small external drive when you consider its 1TB capacity. It only measures only about 2.5 x 2.5 inches square and about 0.5 inches thick. I like that small size – it will fit easily into a pocket which means I'll be using it a lot. If I had a complaint, it would be the USB-C connecting cord is too short – I’d like to see about a 1-meter long cord (about 3 feet) instead just to make my life easier. I can get by with the short cord but I’d rather not have to do so. I’d recommend this drive, especially if you need to have a large amount of data with you on a frequent basis. It would be really great for storing all you vacation photos.

I love the fact that it's so compact and easy to travel with.

Perfect my son loves it he is autistic very picky loves it

Excellent for storing ps4 games. Great pricing! I’m

The move to SSD storage becoming more prevalent in the computer market has had a bit of a downside: it has taken us back to smaller storage capacities being the norm again. In the last few years, 1 TB hard drives were common in decent machines, but capable machines sold now are typically outfitted with 128 GB, 256 GB, or 512 GB at the upper end. The result is that getting a new machine these days may mean settling for less storage for the same money. Until recently, one solution to that problem was to add an external hard drive, but access speeds for physical hard drives aren’t really up to snuff compared to solid state drives. I recently upgraded my laptop to one with lots more memory and the latest Intel processor, but only half as much storage space as my 5 year-old laptop. I was using an external hard drive for less important file storage, but the arrival of the Crucial X6 1 TB external SSD gave me the opportunity to add storage space that was fast enough to serve as direct online storage, not just a space for files such as photos. So, the question I wanted to answer was this: is the Crucial X6 fast enough to be a reasonable extension of my laptop’s internal storage? To answer that, I decided to install a number of games on the X6. Games were one thing that I decided to install much fewer of on my new machine, since I don’t play them enough to make it worth giving up the storage space. As a comparison, I also installed the same games on an SD card to see how it would stack up against the X6. Installing and running games on the X6 worked flawlessly, but the experience wasn’t noticeably different on the SD card. So, I decided to test the read/write speeds directly, again comparing to the SD card. Crucial claims a read speed of around 559 MB/s and a write speed of around 510 MB/s. This is where I was surprised to find out how much better the X6 performed over my SD card. To help me quantify this, I used the freeware tool named “Flash Bench”. At the largest file size, my average read speed was 499 MB/s and my average write speed was 378 MB/s. At the 4K file size, read/write averages were 42/37. These were not quite up to the advertised speeds, but that’s to be expected on different machines. What really surprised me was the fact that my SD card, which I thought would compare favorably because it is also flash memory, was more than 5 times slower than the Crucial X6 and even a bit slower than my external physical hard drive! Maybe I need to look into the SD, but that’s for another day. Next, I copied large quantities of files back and forth from the X6, to directly get a feel for it’s reading and writing speed. What I found was that for really huge files, the X6 crushes it, transferring multi-gigabyte files in no time. What isn’t always intuitive is what those lower speed benchmarks for smaller files mean. When I transferred massive folders containing thousands and thousands of small and tiny files, the read/write speeds of all media types converged to around the same numbers. In that scenario, there was no real performance difference between the X6, a typical SD card, or my 1 TB external hard drive. Keep that in mind if you’re copying tons of tiny files and wondering why it takes so long. It doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with your new drive, it’s just the nature of the beast. In the end, I’ve concluded that the X6 is a great performer for a great price. It is small and light, which makes it easy to take with you everywhere. It’s rated for drops of more than 6 feet without damage, but I can’t bring myself to do that on purpose. My only complaint is that I wish the included USB-C cable were a little longer. A short cable makes sense, but it’s also a stiff cable, which makes it difficult to put it in a place that stays out of my way. This is a minor quibble, but it would have been nice to have a little more choice as to where to put the drive while it’s in use. I think the X6 is a great value, and I’m glad we’re finally starting to get some options on large capacity drives at a reasonable price. Crucial has a lot of experience making computer memory, so it makes sense that they’re leading the way here as well. If you need some more storage space for your computer or game system, you can’t go wrong with the X6.

My computer doesn't read it! Bought over 6 months ago and its already not readable. Lost all my data it seems. When connected to a mac, even disk utlity on the laptop can't open.

I read the reviews of this product and took the plunge to buy it since it was on sale. Hope it won't give me any problems in the future.

The hard drive is okay, but it doesn't hold a lot of data.

I got this Crucial X6 SE 1TB External USB-C SSD when it was on sale. I only use it at home and at around 10 months of use, it crushes and unresponsive. Not recommended

10/28/2022 Bought Cloned disk to it. Stored it in home environment. Not used until: 03/26/2024 Failed. Could not write, read, or format.