It features a bright red underside and a dark grey chassis, and is fully made of magnesium. The Samsung Portable SSD X5 is a 119mm x 62mm x 19.7mm external SSD. Samsung sampled us the 1TB version for evaluation. The X5 is available in three capacities - 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB, at prices ranging from 70c/GB to 80c/GB. The X5 places an OEM version of their 970 EVO NVMe SSD (3D TLC V-NAND and the Phoenix SSD controller) behind an Alpine Ridge Thunderbolt 3 to PCIe bridge. Unlike the recent crop of affordable TB3 SSDs that use a PCIe 3.0 x2 NVMe SSD with a Phison controller, Samsung has gone in for a premium solution. Samsung is launching their first Thunderbolt 3 SSD, the Portable SSD X5, today. The rising popularity of Thunderbolt 3, coupled with the emergence of NVMe SSDs in the compact M.2 form-factor, has enabled a new class of portable bus-powered high-performance flash storage devices.
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