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Crucial X8 1TB External SSD Review

IOMeter is another open-source synthetic benchmarking tool which is able to simulate the various loads placed on the hard drive and solid-state drive technology.

We set IOmeter up (as shown above) to test both backup and restore performance on a 100GB file.


The X8 displayed strong performance in our backup and restore tests with over 750MB/s figures for both.

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