all right so I'm kind of amped about
this product in front of me yes I'm a
little bit weird I get excited about
strange things this no different I've
been working with big files large files
for a long time now if you're in a video
world at all then you're familiar with
this particularly if you get into the
pro res type of video file formats you
get used to the idea of projects being
hundreds of gigabytes in some cases
could be like a terabyte I know it's
it's it's wild now of course there's
other people out there who use a lot of
storage themselves and are constantly
transferring files and so forth but in a
video world specifically that's the one
I'm familiar with and it can be a major
headache transferring stuff around so
when you see something like this a
product like this all of a sudden you
can get a little bit pumped and get a
little bit em this is an nvme SSD inside
of a tiny little rugged chassis and this
thing the lesea rugged SSD proclaims to
give you transfer speeds up to 2800
megabytes per second 2800 megabytes per
second that's a crazy speed if you have
never experienced Thunderbolt 3 speeds
this is the type of thing you can come
to expect this in some cases can
outperform people's internal storage
inside of their laptop the other crazy
part for me because I've been playing
around these gadgets for so long is how
to get those types of speeds in the past
you would have to have some giant RAID
storage device a huge multi unit hard
drive situation to get that type of
speed not something you could fit in
your pocket now obviously with those
storage solutions you have redundancy
you don't have that here it's all in one
place but still I want to test this out
I want to see just how fast it is I'm
gonna I'm gonna run a speed test on it
and I'm gonna transfer some gigantic
files so we can see what it's all about
high performance external nvme SSD using
Thunderbolt 3 this is the 1 terabyte
model it does come in a 2 terabyte
version as well but of course the cost
escalates now this is a competitive
marketplace this isn't the only player
in the
superfast tiny little drive space it's
just the one that was most interesting
to me because it's rugged it's one of
the smallest even though it's still
rugged it's bus powered it's got some
attributes that I really like oh also
this is one of the only ones out there
that is backwards compatible to USB 3.1
so a lot of the other Thunderbolt 3
drives that exist will not function on
computers that only support USB or even
maybe if you wanted to bring this thing
to like a game console or something like
that
transfer game files quickly those are
only going to support USB 3 so you can
do that with this one extreme water
resistance ip67 rated protection from
immersion in water also dust resistant
you want you look our files matter to
you spend a lot of time accumulating
those files whatever it is that you make
or you store get a little extra
protection with shock resistance for
drops up to three meters it's kind of
nice you slap it off the table don't
slap it off the table but in case you
did and pressure resistance you can run
over it with a two-ton car I'm not gonna
do that in this video I'm more
interesting to speed in this video but
they're putting it on the box four
thousand four hundred and ten pounds you
can run it over with that's pretty good
can I misplace the knife Mike fitness
how do I keep misplace in this night
it's the official unbox therapy knife
that I keep miss placing and I'm still
using it and it stays sharp in case you
missed this this was a collaboration
between myself and Scott here these guys
actually have been making really nice
pocket knives for a while it's a special
limited edition that we did and there
are a few left on Amazon I'll drop a
link in the description if you want to
pick one up it comes with a cool little
samurai's storage spot and if you didn't
notice it actually looks like a samurai
sword
and if you want to get these limited
color options they're only available in
the unbox therapy version with the gold
blade and all the rest of it so go check
that out ok some paperwork more
paperwork glossa look how tiny look at
look how tiny my goodness it's even
smaller than I imagined it's like a
couple pairs of air pods
okay maybe maybe four pairs of air pods
now dry protection
that's what you're gonna want just gives
you a little extra confidence in the
commercially made for this thing you've
got the guys there on the boat they got
the wakeboarding they're sending the
drones up they're not worried because
they have well they got the water
resistance obviously I guess if you drop
it in the lake you still gotta swim down
in you want to swim down maybe they
should have made it break the old ones
used to be bright orange in fact I used
to work in a computer shop I sold a ton
of the bright orange Lisi drives back
when they actually had a spinning Drive
on the inside but still video
professionals loved the idea of a
durable drive like that okay so pretty
nondescript you're like what is that
well it's pocketable that's for sure the
only port you're gonna see on here a
Thunderbolt 3 port and of course
Thunderbolt 3 uses the USB type-c
connector that's why this one is
backwards compatible but for some
strange reason the vast majority of
portable Thunderbolt 3 drives are not
backwards compatible so that's why you
should check this one out look at that
they give you a tiny little baby
Thunderbolt cable which believe it or
not this is actually not common
oftentimes you got to pick up your own
Thunderbolt cable now I don't know how
useful this tiny one is but obviously
they expect you to use this with a
laptop in which case I suppose this is
useful and portable it was dangerous if
you're gonna carry it around with you
everywhere then the cable should be easy
to carry in your pocket as well this is
a MacBook Air boom and as you can
probably know this is a very bizarre way
to do this look at that I never I didn't
plan this I promise but as you can see
we have the famous black magic disk
speed test now this will test the speed
of either your internal or any external
storage that you have you can set that
as the target disk so I'm gonna go ahead
and open this up please little makeshift
look at this with the overhead it's all
I didn't it's all working there's gonna
be familiar to a lot of people it's cool
the way they lay it out too it's in some
sort of makes it seem like a speedometer
it makes it seem like you're traveling
quickly while you are but just in drive
land so to kick it off let's test the
internal storage on this MacBook Air
this this MacBook Air of course
internal SSD storage very quick no
external connection necessary so it's
getting that full bandwidth full
throughput so let's test that out first
and you can see that's very fast but of
course the problem here is that you
don't well for one you're gonna run out
of storage quickly if you try to save
gigantic video files to your laptop
directly and for to some people get a
little bit nervous with the all the eggs
in one basket type of concept just
throwing all that data in one place
along with your OS and everything else
if there was an issue with it
well you're kind of out of luck so most
people like to use an external place to
store things also I can't just give
somebody my laptop if they're gonna work
on the video footage this little guy
over here I could just like a hand that
to somebody obviously there's not much
handing off going on right now 20/20
style but in a regular environment you
could hand this off someone could take
it you could stick it in your pocket you
could stick it in the mail if you wanted
you have a terabyte of data that you
couldn't upload for some reason anyway
okay so that's the internal drive you
saw that work its way around what do we
have the right speed 2241 megabytes per
second the read speed 1834 now of course
if you have a laptop that does not
support Thunderbolt 3 this is gonna be a
waste of money for you this is this is a
very expensive drive the intent here is
that you take advantage of that extra
throughput if you only have USB 3 then
this is this is overkill so we're gonna
select this new target Drive right here
and it's right over here let's see open
and let's run our speed test oh wow ok
it's pretty close to the internal drive
actually the read speed is faster than
the internal drive the write speeds a
little bit slower but it's in the same
realm it's in the same wheelhouse and
you're connected via an external cable
that's the best part you can hand it off
you can pass it off and you have crazy
fast speeds now to put that in
comparison let me quickly grab I have so
we've been using these
Samsung t5 drives in the studio for a
really long time
they are USB 3 drives so this is a good
option if you want to save a few bucks
and you only have access to USB 3 these
are also very quick but let's do a
comparison we will select that target
drive real quick so we'll start that up
and you'll see man it's like one-third
the speed that's still very fast there's
way slower drives out there in the world
this is the t5 from Samsung but that's
just you're just limited there by USB
right here there's only so much that you
can do now I know what you're saying
you're thinking to yourself Lou why do
you need this crazy speed can't you wait
a couple of it
a couple of extra minutes or seconds
it's not just a question of waiting or
speed for example if you want to record
a video file straight to this Drive you
may drop frames you may not be capable
of doing it if you don't have enough
speed to support it I have a desktop
drive over there it's like 20 times the
size of this that I'm currently using
with the video footage on it while I'm
editing going through the timeline and
so forth this thing is faster than that
is now again when it comes to the
workflow you can actually see some some
valid improvements with that extra speed
plus just for the typical transfer you
just you still feel really cool you see
the bar just flying across look it's not
gonna be for everyone it is expensive if
you don't have Thunderbolt 3 you're
probably not gonna be interested if you
do have Thunderbolt 3 it's time to start
taking advantage of it because you can
move some stuff around real quick and
look and you can even and that's the
best part it's also I'm so it's all
secure on there there's nothing on there
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