Hey there i'm Mark Brown from Editors Keys and on this channel we help you get
the best out of your filmmaking. In this video we're looking at speed! Now we've
just got this in through the post this is the LaCie SSD it a portable SSD and
this is part of a new series of drives out on the market which promise super
fast speeds for your editing, so if you're currently a video creator or a
video editor you may have a super fast Mac but the one thing that could be
holding you back is your hard drive. Now we currently use an older Seagate hard
drive. This, is as I say, the brand-new LaCie SSD. In this video we're gonna test
out can this speed up your editing. So here it is this is the LaCie 2TB
SSD, it looks really really nice it feels good in their hand and if you're used to
carrying around a lot of hard drives you know they can be quite large quite
cumbersome heavy devices so having something this small in your bag is
really cool this is just 82 grams so it's very very light and it's just 9mm
thick which makes it around same thickness as your average
smartphone which is really cool so you can just slide it in any bag it'll even
slip in a top shirt pocket if you're on a trade show. I think that's really cool
another aspect about SSDs which is really great is that they're actually
shockproof now this one can be dropped from a height of 2M and with that
you can be pretty sure that your footage will still be safe on the drive and the
same can't be said for old hard drives which run on a spinning disc system so
that's pretty cool but as we say the main thing I think for the money is
speed because this is an expensive Drive this is £479 here in the UK for
just a 2TB drive and on Amazon and places like that you can get 2TB
older kind of hard drive for around £60 to £70 pounds so this really
doesn't need to do something else for it to be worth that money so let's take a
look so the first thing we're going to do is test these drives on black magics
own disk speed test we're gonna put these through their paces and see what
Blackmagic says is the quicker drive and compare the speeds so we've opened up
the speed test and we'll start with our old trusty Seagate drive which has been
serving us well over the last 12 months your time is important so we're not
gonna make you sit through the full 30 minutes of testing but with the Seagate
we reached a maximum write speed of a respectable 118 megabytes per second and
a read speed of 109 megabytes per second so this is OK for everyday tasks but you
may find you'll struggle to edit in 4k without creating croc sea or optimized
media first so now let's test out the new LaCie drive Wow
you'll notice here right away there is a huge speed increase during the tests we
got a maximum write speed of a whopping of 460 megabytes per second and a read
speed of 500 and 16 megabytes per second the write speed did seem to dip to an
average of 350 megabytes per second which is still pretty great
this means all of your video editing photography or audio work will
absolutely fly which could help reduce the importing and rendering process
during projects so to summarize the LaCie SSD is 289 percent faster in the
right speed and 373 percent faster in the read speed now doing a speed test is
fine but what's it like in the real world
I mean will this actually make a difference to your day-to-day tasks so
first of all we're trying to export this eight-minute 4k project from Final Cut
Pro 10 to the CKD drive ok so the total export time was 6 minutes and 31 seconds
now let's try the LaCie SSD
so even on this relatively short project we do save quite a bit of time using the
LaCie Drive Final Cut Pro 10 was able to export in just five minutes and eight
seconds meaning we saved a total of one minute and 23 seconds we did these tests
on my 13-inch 2016 MacBook Pro so you might find with a newer iMac or a
15-inch MacBook Pro you'll get even quicker speeds so there we have it all
test done it's actually quite surprising it's actually a lot faster than the
older drive and I think if you're spending a lot of time in the Edit this
can make a seriously big difference I know there's a lot of money to spend but
as I say if you're saving five or ten minutes every time you do a project or
every few hours it's a real lot of time saved up over the year and you know I
wouldn't recommend you get 10 of these SSDs maybe just get one large one to
edit from and then use the older cheaper drives to use for your backups so I hope
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