what's going on guys in this video I'm gonna show you my two favorite external
hard drives that I use to backup all my photos and my drone footage in the video
coming up so I have these two drives they're both great but I'm gonna start
with the Seagate 5 terabyte drive that's actually cheaper than the solid-state
drive and I'll explain why in the video first we have this Seagate 5 terabyte
drive so let's unbox it just take it out right here you know comes with a bunch
of papers but you don't have to worry about those and then it comes in this
little plastic case right here alright we just take it out alright so we got
that this is the external hard drive and this is the little cord that comes with
it so you have these two things this is the essence of it and the great thing
about it you don't need anything else this is all you need
what I usually do is I usually leave this little plastic sleeve on just for
protection in case of dust anything gets on it maybe water or anything else
alright we just take out this cable alright okay so taking a closer look
what I do is I can just plug it in right here okay and then at the other end is
my USB 3.0 alright so what's great about this external hard drive is that I don't
need anything else alright I don't need any external power
it's compatible with both Windows and Mac so I don't have to plug this into
the wall I don't need any special software I can just use it right after I
format it so I suggest you format the drive or erase everything and then
you're good to go you don't need anything else for you Mac users you're
gonna need OS X 10.7 or newer and then for you PC users you're gonna eat
Windows 7 or newer I love this drive because it's so small
alright it's 4.5 inches across 3 inches down and 0.8 inches wide so it's super
portable 4 millimeters that's a hundred and 15 millimeters by 78 millimeters by
20 millimeter and this weighs about a half a pound or
in kilos about a quarter of a kilo all right guys so this is the Seagate 5
terabyte drive I use it to back up all my shoots when I have a ton of footage
that I need to back up this is my go-to Drive now we also have this drive the
two terabyte drive by Samsung it's super small as well all right so let's open it
up alright comes in this little case we're just gonna open it up alright and
then there it is a little drive and you can see super small and then just
underneath you're gonna just pull this little thing out
alright this pops off underneath you have your documentation you can get rid
of that and then you have two USB cables so you have your USB type a and your USB
type-c cables so this is what the cables look like at the end of them
so I'm gonna plug the one with the USB now this is a USB 3.0 I'm just gonna
plug this in okay and it has this little velcro strap which the other one does
not have that's because it gets quite long and actually side by side the
cables are almost exactly the same size they might be yeah they're pretty much
exactly the same size I like to say I'm sung because it's so small look at this
guy's basically can't see it right I can just make it disappear it's that small
three inches by two point four inches by point four inches across okay so super
small so what do I like about this little guy
besides being small it has a read speed of 540 megabytes per
second in a write speed of five hundred and fifty megabytes per second and just
like my other drive I don't have to connect it with any special software I
don't need to plug it into any outlet alright it just plugs right into my
computer I don't need any extra wires or cords and all this stuff like I said
before both of these all you have to do is format them they're compatible with
mac and pc and the reason I like this solid-state drive is because it's a
little more secure than this drive which is just a normal Drive so this has some
moving parts but inside there's a solid-state drive so it has no moving
parts inside as far as I know I'm not an engineer but I know these do last longer
it's also gonna be much faster than this one probably about five times as fast
but you're also paying about ten times the price in terms of the amount of
storage so for about 110 to 120 dollars you get five terabytes with this guy
okay and for the same price you only get 500 gigs for this drive so you have so
much more space over here but here you're gonna be much faster and it's
more reliable in the long term now I always like to max out my space I like
to go as high as possible so for this one I bought the five terabyte drive
because that's as high as it goes this guy the samsung only goes up to two
terabytes which is still a ton of space for a solid-state drive for the price
it's not bad so which one do you buy if you're on a budget go with the Seagate
it's great it's reliable it's not gonna be super fast but still gonna be usable
for editing video for storing stuff so it's a very solid choice now if you have
the money you want to go all out get the Samsung it'll also give you more of a
peace of mind for the long term not losing any of your footage what I do is
I go in a shoe and I upload all my footage so I have a ton of footage I
dump it onto this Drive and then after I'm done I do most of my editing on this
and then I store my final copy and all my final selects and my final edits
on the Samsung Drive so this is more of like a storage for all my footage and
this one is just for the best footage and for my editing alright guys I hope
you enjoyed this video remember it's good to back up your work on to two
external hard drives these are two options for you so if you buy one
actually buy two of these that way if one fails you always have another one of
course with the solid-state it's going to be more secure but you never know
okay so that's why it's good to get two drives I left links in the below so if
you want to click on that purchase one of these it's right there if you haven't
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