The main contributor to this heft is the solid internal heat sink. Coming in at 150g, it is considerably heavier than the Patriot Evlvr (88g) and the TEKQ Rapide (135g). 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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