HardwareStorageSSDsDefeat the glower of your backlog with this $120 Crucial X9 2 TB portable SSD, just $0.06/GBWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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Crucial X9 | 2 TB | USB Type-C | Up to 1,050 MB/s read |$150$119.99 at Amazon (save $30.01)At just $0.06/GB, this is a stellar deal on a great SSD. It’s not the quickest drive around but we measured it at a steady 950+ MB/s for eight minutes, which is plenty of sustained speed for transferring games between Steam libraries. Similarly, it’s currently going as cheap as its older sibling, the Crucial X6. That’s important as we had rated the Crucial X6 as the best budget external SSD… while this deal lasts, that accolade goes to the X9 instead.View Deal
Crucial X9 | 2 TB | USB Type-C | Up to 1,050 MB/s read |$150$119.99 at Amazon (save $30.01)At just $0.06/GB, this is a stellar deal on a great SSD. It’s not the quickest drive around but we measured it at a steady 950+ MB/s for eight minutes, which is plenty of sustained speed for transferring games between Steam libraries. Similarly, it’s currently going as cheap as its older sibling, the Crucial X6. That’s important as we had rated the Crucial X6 as the best budget external SSD… while this deal lasts, that accolade goes to the X9 instead.View Deal
Crucial X9 | 2 TB | USB Type-C | Up to 1,050 MB/s read |$150$119.99 at Amazon (save $30.01)At just $0.06/GB, this is a stellar deal on a great SSD. It’s not the quickest drive around but we measured it at a steady 950+ MB/s for eight minutes, which is plenty of sustained speed for transferring games between Steam libraries. Similarly, it’s currently going as cheap as its older sibling, the Crucial X6. That’s important as we had rated the Crucial X6 as the best budget external SSD… while this deal lasts, that accolade goes to the X9 instead.View Deal
Crucial X9 | 2 TB | USB Type-C | Up to 1,050 MB/s read |$150$119.99 at Amazon (save $30.01)At just $0.06/GB, this is a stellar deal on a great SSD. It’s not the quickest drive around but we measured it at a steady 950+ MB/s for eight minutes, which is plenty of sustained speed for transferring games between Steam libraries. Similarly, it’s currently going as cheap as its older sibling, the Crucial X6. That’s important as we had rated the Crucial X6 as the best budget external SSD… while this deal lasts, that accolade goes to the X9 instead.
Crucial X9 | 2 TB | USB Type-C | Up to 1,050 MB/s read |$150$119.99 at Amazon (save $30.01)At just $0.06/GB, this is a stellar deal on a great SSD. It’s not the quickest drive around but we measured it at a steady 950+ MB/s for eight minutes, which is plenty of sustained speed for transferring games between Steam libraries. Similarly, it’s currently going as cheap as its older sibling, the Crucial X6. That’s important as we had rated the Crucial X6 as the best budget external SSD… while this deal lasts, that accolade goes to the X9 instead.
Crucial X9 | 2 TB | USB Type-C | Up to 1,050 MB/s read |$150$119.99 at Amazon (save $30.01)At just $0.06/GB, this is a stellar deal on a great SSD. It’s not the quickest drive around but we measured it at a steady 950+ MB/s for eight minutes, which is plenty of sustained speed for transferring games between Steam libraries. Similarly, it’s currently going as cheap as its older sibling, the Crucial X6. That’s important as we had rated the Crucial X6 as the best budget external SSD… while this deal lasts, that accolade goes to the X9 instead.
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In my restless dreams, I see my backlog asking me"Why are you playing the Silent Hill 2 Remakeagain?“Well, I’ve got to square away all of those endings before Alan Wake 2 gets itsLake House expansion, right? I’m not made out of hard drive space. “Ah,” my backlog says (I’d encourage you to picture a Megazord situation), “Just pick up the Crucial X9 portable SSD—Amazon’s got a cracking deal on the 2 TB model.” And then I wake up.
Jumping onto my PC, I see that it’s true though: Amazon is selling the Crucial X9 2 TB portable SSD for its lowest price since April,at just $120. Not only does that lop 20% off of the MSRP, but that’s a better price than the similarly speccedSamsung T7 Shield (currently going for $60 more on Amazon).
If you’re feeling the need for speed, theCrucial X9 is left eating the competition’s dust a bit, but not so much so that I’m not still looking longingly at that saving. If you’re just wanting somewhere to stick your backburner backlog, $120 remains a decent price for 2 TB of game storage to play with. Though, you probably shouldn’t expect the Crucial X9 to move any of those big game files in a hurry.
That said, this is far from a doddery old drive. In our tests, the Crucial X9 maintained its peak rated speed of 950+ MB/s for over eight minutes. While other drives can easily eclipse that speed, that’s only for much shorter bursts.
To put it another way, say you spend five minutes transferring 950 MB/s. At the end of those five minutes, you’ve still moved 285 GB—which is more than fast enough to tuck away or bring over all of your indie darlings. Essentially, it’s a respectable speed for most use cases.
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