Our favourite portable SSD is down to £77 at Amazon Rock Paper Shotgun Support us Join our newsletter Visit our store Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Our favourite portable SSD is down to £77 at Amazon A historic low price for a USB-connected 1050MB/s SSD. Deals by Will Judd Contributor Published on Aug. 11, 2022 2 comments The Crucial X8 is our favourite portable SSD, thanks to its compact protective frame, convenient USB-A or USB-C connection and excellent performance. It's capable of transfer speeds up to 1050MB/s, minimising the time it takes to copy files to and from the drive, and offers low enough access times that you can easily run games from it too. It normally costs around £85, but today it's dropped to a historic low price of £77 - a great value for a portable NVMe SSD offering this level of performance. Get the Crucial X8 1TB for £ 77 was £ 121 The Crucial X8 has been covered by the good ship RPS in some detail, with the drive appearing as the 'best external SSD' in our best SSD for gaming round-up and also being the subject of its own full-length Crucial X8 review. As our hardware department point out, the X8 supports the modern USB 3.2 Gen 2 standard, unlocking those higher peak transfer speeds that beat even the new and more expensive Samsung T7 Shield. There's even some trivia: RPS chief Katharine used to use this very model for shifting game installations around various laptops and PC setups for testing, prior to escaping the hardware cupboard and pushing me into it before the door locked shut. That took a dark turn. Anyway, this is a great portable SSD for the money, and my own unit has become indispensable for viewing high quality video downloads from my computer on the TV downstairs. Just copy over the file, plug it into the TV and you're away - no faffing around with streaming, file servers or anything like that. Similarly, it's very handy if you need to rapidly populate a computer with your favourite games - for example, if a mate comes over to have a little LAN party. Anyway, I'm sure you'll come up with your own uses for this excellent drive, so I'll leave it to you. Thanks for joining me once again, and stay tuned for one more deals post before I retire to the deals cave for this week and begin my weekend slumber. More Deals This 1TB NVMe SSD is just £56.99, surely a new low-water mark for this spec The Integral M-Series isn't the best known, but it's rare to see a TLC drive so cheap. Will Judd 18 hours ago Get a massive 4TB Crucial NVMe SSD for £299.99 after a £90 discount That's just 7.5p per gigabyte, a great value for a drive of this size. Will Judd 19 hours ago £90 is a good deal for EVGA's 850W G6 80+ Gold power supply A nifty £30 reduction on a PSU that can handle RTX 4090. Will Judd 1 day ago 3 The Ryzen 7 5800X CPU is down to $230 in the wake of Ryzen 7000's release That's $220 below its US MSRP, and a fine deal on a high-end bit of kit. Will Judd 1 day ago 1 Latest Articles What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Alice O'Connor an hour ago 21 Past Wordle answers Here's an archive of previous Wordle words Ollie Toms 2 hours ago 1 Wordle answer today (Saturday 15 October) Hints and the answer to today's Wordle word Rebecca Jones 9 hours ago Overwatch 2 hero tier list Which are the best heroes in Overwatch 2? Ollie Toms 16 hours ago Supporters Only You're probably better than me at One Many Nobody You go on without… uh, you? Sin Vega 17 hours ago Supporter podcast - The Nate Files episode 13: dry bones Bad science is also FUN science! Alice Bell 18 hours ago Japanese dating show Love Wagon has surprising parallels with Yakuza and Persona My new obsession Ed Thorn 2 days ago If you're hankering after Bayonetta 3, Valkyrie Elysium might be a good substitute It's not out on PC until next month, but the console demo has been a surprise charmer Katharine Castle 1 week ago 4 We've been talking, and we think that you should wear clothes Total coincidence, but we sell some clothes Buy RPS stuff here