Crucial X10 Review: This SSD Is Rugged, Roomy, and Easy on the Wallet

We test USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 external SSDs using one of three PC Labs storage testbeds, a desktop PC built on an Asus Prime X299 Deluxe motherboard with an Intel Core i9-10980XE Extreme Edition CPU and an Nvidia GeForce graphics card. We use the motherboard’s native 10Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 port for testing most drives; for 20Gbps Gen 2×2 drives like the X10, we use a Gen 2×2 port added via an Orico PCI Express expansion card.

We subjected the X10 to our usual suite of external solid-state drive benchmarks,…