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SAMSUNG PORTABLE SSD X5: WICKEDLY FAST, PORTABLE THUNDERBOLT 3 STORAGE

Once Apple finally introduced support for third-party NVMe drives in macOS 10.12 Sierra, NVMe over Thunderbolt storage became only a matter of time. And for a while, the path to external storage nirvana was a bit of a rocky road—but the bumpy ride is over now thanks to Samsung’s Portable SSD X5, a ready-made NVMe over Thunderbolt 3 storage solution that delivers blazingly fast 2GBps-plus read and write speeds

The X5 is now the portable drive for multimedia pros, or anyone who doesn’t like to wait for their files to copy—if you can afford it and, of course, have Thunderbolt 3.

NOT CHEAP

The X5 is a

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