man look at this thing are you kidding me this is an external hard drive that I
bought I don't know years ago and it came with this long cable but those days
are long gone hi my name is Brett Garamella and today
we're going to talk about portable solid-state external hard drives
SanDisk vs. Samsung
so these are two of the best external hard drives for photographers and
videographers and today we're going to compare the two in terms of how these
operate they're both very similar so let's talk about some of these
similarities so first things first these are both extremely extremely lightweight
I mean the Samsung weighs next to nothing I feel like it weighs less than
a flash drive it's point nine ounces which is about 25 grams and the SanDisk
is about twice that weight but both of them are next to nothing compared to
those that your old external hard drives like the one I showed in the beginning
of this video if you had to know one thing about both of these drives is that
they're great for large files and videos which makes them perfect for
photographers and videographers because of the fast read and write speeds and
the reliability because there are both solid-state drives so both of these
drives are compatible with Mac and PC platforms with the newer versions of
Windows and OS X so both of these are just under three inches across the
SanDisk is like a square-shaped and the Samsung is a rectangle of I put them
side-by-side you can see that they're basically super small I mean you just
put it in your pocket in your sleeve anywhere so both of these have pretty
fast uh data transfer rates um they're both USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 compatible
alright so now let's talk about some of the differences one of the main
difference is is that the SanDisk has a data transfer rate of 415
megabytes per second whereas the Samsung has a data transfer rate of 450
megabytes per second so 450 versus 415 so the first vote goes to see
some for that now these external hard drives come in different sizes and
obviously the more space they have the more expensive they are
but the SanDisk comes in 120 gigabytes 240 gigabytes and 480 gigabytes whereas
the Samsung comes in 500 gigabytes and 1 terabyte so in terms of size I'd have to
give it to Samsung because having one terabyte is really helpful especially if
you have a shoot video or have really large
photography files and do a lot of shooting just having that extra space
always comes in handy and the Samsung just dropped in price so having a one
terabyte drive for this price is really really great so one reason the SanDisk
is better than the Samsung is it's better under extreme temperatures
so the SanDisk you can store this all the way from negative 4 degrees all the
way up to 158 degrees and you can operate this while using it from 32
degrees all the way up to 113 degrees at least that's what it says in the package
so the SanDisk is a lot more reliable under extreme heat and extreme cold
conditions alright so in conclusion I would recommend the Samsung over the
SanDisk because it's slightly smaller slightly lighter it comes most
importantly in one terabyte which is double the size of the biggest SanDisk
size and it also has faster read and write speeds 450 megabytes per second
versus 415 so the size and the speed make Samsung the winner for me I hope
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