Samsung is entering the Thunderbolt 3 market today by unveiling their first-ever NVMe-based portable solid state drive (SSD) the Samsung Portable SSD X5. The X5 series features speeds of up to 2,800 MB/s read and 2,300 MB/s write, making it an ideal portable storage device for content creators, enthusiasts or anyone that wants access to their files quickly while on the go. Read on to see how this drives performs when we run half a dozen different benchmarks on the 1TB model.