Samsung deserves credit for getting a ThunderBolt external drive out early, but I do not think the premium they are trying to get is worth it anymore. And some vendors, like Sabrent, put it together for you, at considerably less cost than Samsung does. Granted, I have not seen any external NVMe drive boxes that support the newer PCIe-4 yet, but there are active cooling variants out now for PCIe-3, and really we are talking say 5 minutes effort saves you $100-$200 (and if you pick the right external drive enclosure, runs faster).
There is a bit of a Black Friday sale going on now with Samsung, for the X5 it is here:īut they also have sales going on NVMe m.2 sticks, so there is still quite a price differential. Speed (some of the NVMe based stuff are benchmarking faster)
The main reservations I have on the Samsung X5 are along the lines of:
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