Crucial X8 slower than mechanical drive!

[sgoaty]

I treated myself to a 4TB crucial X8 portable SSD for my media/games OTG drive.

While transferring around 1TB of media files I noticed the transfer rate decline to around 50-60mb after a couple of minutes.

I've tried this on a different PC which was transferring files from an internal nvme drive and experienced the same result.

I'm using a high speed rated cable and have tried the boards usb 3 and 3.2 ports.

Can anyone offer up any suggestions?
Thanks
Scott

 

[sgoaty]

Thanks very much for the information.


It seems like something that Crucial/windows should manage better. I'd rather the transfer paused for a minute or so on it's own then continued at a higher speed than it just going at a snails pace for the majority of the transfer.

I came across this while looking at reviews for the drive. Any truth to it?

Heads up for Windows users - the product comes preformatted as ExFAT, which is to ensure compatibility with non-Windows products (PlayStation etc) but it's dreadfully slow especially when copying/reading/even deleting small files. If you reformat was NTFS the problem will be solved.

Thanks
Scott

 

[sgoaty]

I've learned to live with it it's not so much of an issue now I've transferred the stuff I wanted to it. It was just brutal doing 2GB at that speed!