Key review X10

Do you see this USB-c front panel in a fancy fantasy Terra Mini-ITX case? This is USB 3.2 x2, and if you connect it to a standard USB 3 header on the motherboard, the system breaks the error and does not start. In any case, this is my experience.

So I raised the key X10 with concern, wondering if I would be able to squeeze each last delicious drop of bandwidth from an exotic USB connection. USB 3.2 x2 (20 GBPS) seems to be a strange choice in a world where telephones have 10 GB / s USB 3.2 connectors, and computers computers have 40 USB4 ports by 40 Gb / s, as well as on multinational data motorways, which are up-to-date Trembolt flavors. It is clear faster, but many computers will not be able to utilize it best, and real speeds will look at USB4 or Thunderbolt drives to force many gigabytes through wires in a few seconds.

Fortunately, USB 3.2 X2 is part of the USB4 specifications. Unfortunately, this is only optional. So if your USB4 seller decided not to switch the switch, connect the wire or make a ritual or whatever you need to turn it on, you are not lucky. I discovered that USB4 on Wi-Fi in Asus Rog Strix X870-I was able to run X10 at something approaching its maximum speed, and Thunderbolt 4 from a laptop for games was slightly faster.

This is not the end of the road disk compared to dedicated USB4 and Thunderbolt options, such as the fat Sandisk Extreme Pro USB4 or the Lacy Rugged Thunderbolt 5 Drive beast, but if your USB-C USB-C on 10 GBPS will not receive any additional benefits with X10 compared to X10 compared to the X10 compared to something like Crucial X9 or Seagate Ultra Cutat.

So IF You can utilize as well as possible and IF You want to spend a little more than 10 Gb / s SSD, X10 may make sense. It works twice as faster than standard USB 3.2 disks, and if you transfer a lot of data – such as choosing an example from random from the air, creating backups of hundreds of concerts for downloading games from a device with a pious internal SSD – you will see that the charming window of copies of Windows files disappears much faster.

This will not give you any benefits if you download to it, because even 10 GBPS exceeds average internet connections with a long path. Moving vast folders to other swift drives is its strength, and with the mass storage available to 8 TB you will be able to match many games. However, do not expect miracles. Its maximum speed is still slower than the internal SSD PCIe 3.0. His only benefits are compared to other portable disks.

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The key saw no reason to change the project in which he determined for SSD X9, changing only the color for X10. The X10 is blue and only blue, although there is the X10 PRO model, which is black and has a metal housing, not a plastic. This makes him a bit heavier, though not in vast quantities. And a little more high-priced, though not in vast quantities. You may want a metal drive if you take it up or in the desert as part of the Documentary Wild nature team, but for most indoor applications the plastic will be fine. It is resistant to the penetration of IP55 and will take a 2-meter decrease, although it is significant to notice that it is a carpet, and more arduous floors can cause actual damage.

On the edge of the drive there is one USB-C port, and no activity has led to throwing you out during carrying so as not to disconnect it at the wrong time. It would be nice to have. The brief USB-C to C cable is in the box and is good enough for maximum speeds. You need to replace it only if you need something longer or lightning. There is also a string in the upper corner, so you can wear it as jewelry.

Unable to find the real operating USB 3.2 x2 port to connect the drive, despite two desktop computers and five laptops in my garden shed, I tried to connect it to various USB-C ports to see what speeds got out of it and I was pleasantly surprised. Roll it on the port by 10 Gb/s, and you will pull out 10 Gb/s – 1069.3 Mb/s reading and 1037.7 Mb/s Record in my tests. USB4 provided 1900.81 Mb/s reading and writes 2002.70 MB/s, while Thunderbolt 4 went to the top with reading 2003.8 MB/SI 1933.3 Mb/s by record. It shows how the implementation of Shambles USB-C has become, when identical ports without identifying traces in addition to the lightning symbol (if you are lucky) can provide such different results, but I think that it means that you need to know your equipment and spend hours browsing the specifications and reviews before buying.

All these numbers mean that the 30 GB file copied by USB4 takes about 25 seconds, and Windows barely worries the display of a box of file copies for a 2 GB MP4 movie. Large folders of mixed documents copy slower than individual giants, so you will probably get lower speeds from game folders than in the case of ISO spare transfer or 4K material from the camera.

So it is a compact ride, which is also nicely priced, cutting Samsung T9, although beaten by the mini mini group PD20. He sits in the middle between cheaper USB 3.2 disks on the one hand, and on the other hand, USB4 disks on the other without demanding money, which makes you decide that you can live with a 10 Gb / s connection, not to convey excess. It is compact, lightweight and available from up to 8 TB of memory – although you will pay a lot for this capacity. As a quick solution for creating backups, it makes sense, but you need to make sure you have equipment to utilize it best.