Customer Ratings & Reviews

Awesome and perfect size. Lightning fast. So small it’s easily carried in a shirt pocket.

Great hard drive, small and fast! I like the light, blinks when data is being transferred

Great SSD. I have this Velcro attached with command strips to my ROG ally X’s killswitch kickstand and it has been fast, and reliable running games with windows 11 over usbc.

reliable, perfect size, fast transfer speed drive. Comes with Acronis software to help do additional tasks (details on official website) great for many photo and video uses. Read/Write speeds up to 1,050MB/s depending on specs of hardware being used with it.

Love how small it is. Seems very reliable and very fast.

This is an impressive little drive.It's fast and has quite a bit of storage.Great for travel.

This is good and quick solution to expand your laptop's storage. This is smaller than my Samsung T5 SSD.

Nice little portable SSD. I am using it for gaming storage and it has worked pretty well. No complaints at all.

Small, fast, reliable, and durable. I've dropped it several times on a hardwood floor, I feel confident it will protect my files for years.

Fast and portable, this drive is not super expensive. Good for storing photos or info from an old computer.

I've been relying on the Crucial X9 Pro to handle my video editing file backups, and I must say it's been a worthy investment. When dealing with hefty video files, its rapid read and write speeds combined with the convenience of the USB-C interface have significantly slashed the time it takes to transfer data, and at this point I've even started storing some main libraries on this without any performance decline. I also appreciate its rugged and robust design that lends a sense of security – I often carry it around in a backpack, and knowing that it can withstand a bit of rough handling is nice. In a nutshell, the Crucial X9 Pro has emerged as a dependable and high-performing external SSD catering to the needs of video editors and content creators like myself. Its speed, sturdiness, and data security features coalesce to offer a compelling solution for maintaining the safety and accessibility of video projects, both during travel and in day-to-day usage. If you're in the market and you want something that's not big, has excellent capacity then look no further!

Perfect solution for a chronic issue- STORAGE! Get the largest capacity you née the add 1 GB.. Seems to work effortlessly in such a portable compact size resulting in a cleaner Desktop/ Workflow..

Great back up option at great price. Small overall size, damage resistant

What a precious little external ssd. Absolutely darling! I cant believe how tiny these things have gotten. In my day youd need a whole room to store 2TB. (I was recently revived from a coma i fell into in the early 1960s.)

A big capacity drive that fits in your pocket. It is very reasonably priced.

I bought this as a backup drive for the hundreds of thousands of files of all types that I’ve accumulated. I wasn’t going to buy it since Crucial deceptively claimed password protected hardware encryption when they have yet to issue the software to make it work. The encryption options on other brands have some issues as well, and since I recently upgraded to Windows Pro, I opted to buy this drive because of it’s small size and use Bitlocker for encryption. Previously I used the very good, free and open source Veracrypt on all my drives, but Windows 11 inexcusably trashes the Veracrypt boot loader with every monthly update, so I gave up fighting with it. Microsoft could play well with Veracrypt if it wanted to, or they could be decent and make Bitlocker available on all versions of Windows, but user security is clearly not their priority. I hate Windows 11. All that said, Bitlocker To Go with Windows Pro works seamlessly for external drives, although it’s not clear that it takes advantage of the Crucial hardware encryption. The drive itself is shockingly tiny and weightless, even though I knew the dimensions in advance. It feels sturdy enough, but given it’s cost, probably best stored in some sort of protection. Despite the many complaints about the short cable, I have no problems with it, and, given the size of the drive, a longer one with add too much bulk. Even the short cable feels a bit bulky as it’s rather stiff. It works fine otherwise. I use it with a Thunderbolt 4 port, and overall the drive feels fast, but I expected it would be somewhat faster. File size makes a big difference, as do sustained transfers. Speeds reported by Windows varied from under 100mbs to over 500. It never came near the maximum rated speed. The drive only gets slightly warm, and I suspect that the thermal management is aggressive. The transfer graph shows lots of peaks and valleys, and a few pauses. Bitlocker may take a toll as well. I experienced no disconnects, unlike the many I get with other SSDs in cheap external cases. So far I’m pretty happy with the drive, although not with the price, which was lower in the past. There are cheaper alternatives for those on a budget.

Small & lite weight but fast. I transfer pictures off my phone

I do like the external hard drive. The size is great. It takes up almost no room at all. However, you can't plug your flash drives directly into the external hard drive and the cord doesn't support the flash drives either. It adds another step for what I need it for.

The Crucial X9 Pro 2TB impresses with its high-speed performance and ample storage capacity. Its sleek design and robust build make it a reliable external SSD. The transfer speeds are noteworthy, offering swift data access for large files and seamless multitasking. The X9 Pro's compatibility with various devices adds to its versatility. While it comes at a premium price, the combination of speed, durability, and capacity justifies the investment for users seeking top-tier external storage solutions.

This drive is perfectly small to fit in a bag and fast enough for doing file backups