This capacious Crucial X9 4TB SSD is already a Prime Big Deal Days highlight
A speedy drive you can take on your travels.
In the past, we've recommended Crucial's X8 portable SSD for gaming given their small size, and nippy speeds, as well as sensible pricing. The X9 goes one better both in number and in general specs, bringing seriously powerful speeds in a pocketable format that's ideal for games, media and a lot more. This current Prime Big Deal Days reduction on the large 4TB option is already one of our picks of the bunch in terms of the current crop of deals available, giving you a speedy drive for seriously good money at £169.
The X9 is rated for speeds of up to 1050MB/s for both reads and writes, giving you a serious amount of power for accessing files on the drive and adding new ones to it. This matches the older X8, which is fantastic considering the X9 is more of the mid-range customer where the X8 was the top of the line choice at the time of its release.
4TB of capacity provides a shedload amount of space for all manner of data, whether it's games, media or otherwise that you're storing here, while a USB-C connection gives you the chance to use the X9 with everything from a Mac or PC to Xbox and PlayStation consoles without a hitch. The only thing to note is that if you pair the X9 with a Xbox Series X/S or PS5, you can't play games directly off the SSD as the consoles treat external drives as 'cold storage'. That means you'd have to load games from the drive to the internal SSD to play them. It's the same for all external drives that are plugged in, not just the X9.
The fact also remains that the X9 is a seriously tiny drive, measuring at just 6.5cm x 5cm x 1cm with regards to its dimensions. It's an easy drive therefore to sling in a bag to take with you. Crucial also rates it to be able to survive drops from up to 2.2 metres in height, making this quite a rugged choice, too.
If you want to grab a seriously powerful and compact portable SSD at a discount, this Prime Big Deal Days deal on the Crucial X9 is one of the best.