sitting here today with Nate Woodbury
wondering what is the best external hard
drive to use and possibly what are the
worst external hard drives not to use is
that a double negative we'll discover
shortly stay with us yeah I definitely
have an answer ok so before I tell you
the answer of what's the best and what's
the worst I actually want to talk about
what's the reason why you would want to
edit from an external I was gonna say
why are we at why are you even sitting
here talk in a boot not Canadian hard
hard drives external hard drives because
this doesn't seem to be part of the
realm of youtubing but now we've made a
connection yeah you need hardware to be
able to edit the software right or edit
the videos now my macbook it's got a 500
gigabyte hard drive and I'm constantly
you know every week I'm filming a couple
hundred gigabytes of software so I
obviously can't store it all there right
and we've talked about Dropbox yes I use
Dropbox I've got many terabytes of
storage there but for convenience I need
an external hard drive y'all do when I'm
not acting when I'm out and about and I
don't have a quick internet or if I you
know need a sort files first before
putting it on the cloud and I've used
I'm just going to show you right here
all these three are all Western Digital
this one is actually a pretty recent
purchase it's a piece of garbage
so my wireless passport I bought this I
think it paid 200 bucks look I was like
did I leave an SD card and then it's a
blank thing and it's supposed to like
you connect it to the computer and you I
can't figure out how to transfer files
it's slow it won't like wake up and I
lose things so I think and I and they
wouldn't let me return it I paid 200
bucks for it
I could not return it and and how big is
it what's its capacity it's at least a
terabyte or two or three I don't know
yeah okay anyway it's just a piece of
garbage like it made me so mad that I
couldn't return it this one I've had for
years and years and it's probably like
500
good bites yeah because the older ones
are bigger older this one this one I
think is like a one or two terabyte that
I used later and as a brick yeah but it
but Western Digital they're cheap and
that's why I went with them but they're
you connected your computer and it they
can't find each other it's like is it
gonna wake up is it there and it's just
maybe you get what you pay for is that
what you're saying so far at least so
then I saw I saw a YouTube video on
Casey nice that's desk was this orange
external hard drive and I started
looking into it and finding out ok it
costs more why is that it's and it's got
this phone you know this is just a phone
case that's not on the outside of the
box but if you drop it it's supposed to
be a lot more drop resistant because
imagine if you lost all your footage
right so this one holds 2 terabytes now
going back to the actual title of this
video which was best external hard drive
for video editing this works so fast
that you you can actually edit from this
where if even if I could get this to
connect the the processing hour
and the transfer rate from this to the
computer it would have a lag in my video
editing right I have to stop and think
where I can edit directly from this hard
see that's a great poets amazing that is
a great point because you're right so
many times rather than having to
transfer things back and forth to edit
them to be able to go right off of that
external it has that processor so it's
Lacey brand la CIE and this one's bigger
yeah I'll talk about that but it's just
bigger there's no difference in these
two the other great thing is wet and
it's got this has got a cord built-in
that just connects right to my macbook
is it the lightning or thunder or it's
called they call a mini rainstorms by
the courts or whatever yes ok but you
connected your computer and guess what
it's just it's there it's as if it's a
drive on your your computer you can
connect some other cable as well they're
the newer it gives you a couple options
but I don't have to have two is that one
yeah so you just connect it and it's and
it's connected and you can
connected isn't that really you like to
keep things simple so why do I have to
well this one has two terabytes and I
like to kind of keep to backup preserves
so when I when I film on a DSLR I'll
take the SD card plug it in the side of
my macbook and I'll first transfer all
the files to my LaCie external hard
drive put it all in a folder and I'll
sort them okay this is video 1 this
video - this is video 3 this is video 4
I sort them all and then I put them onto
onto my Dropbox folder on my Mac and
then once they've synced dropbox they on
sync them and I can take more for my
LaCie hard drive you know from a
different cloud put them there because
they've only got 500 gigabytes on there
but I keep them backed up here and I put
them on Dropbox and then after 2 or 3
months I can then just delete them off
of here because you've already added
them there on YouTube and then they're
backed up in the cloud it's a great idea
but after after I don't know maybe I've
had this for a couple years at least I
just wanted some more space to have a
little bit longer backup time here
because I've got more clients now that I
was starting to select you know shorten
that that cycle time so this is a 5
terabyte so right now I'm just filling
this one up and when this one gets full
I'll just delete everything that's on
here and fill this up to 2 terabytes and
what this is full then I'll just go and
start anyway so I've now I've got 7
terabytes so how much does the 5
terabyte drive
do you remember you've got that online
I'm guessing got it on Amazon yeah I can
put a link in the description below
curious yeah but I want to say it was a
few hundred bucks I don't remember yeah
I don't remember but it is basically I
mean you know everybody wants to have
storage in the palm of their hand
because like you say there's a limit to
what we can do on our local machines but
to be able to have the processing power
and the speed and the immediate
connectivity is a dream because it just
works flawless it's definitely worth it
you want to go with something that
that's where I was so sick and tired of
just the junk junk that I'm sorry
Western Digital but you make junk don't
sell this stuff don't buy this stuff
don't make this these Western Digital
seams if I can put it in these terms
PC and this Lacey scene
say Matt well this because it has the
Mack connect right into it I mean it's I
think they have other versions it's kind
of sexy like a Mack - you know what I
mean
down didn't curves so you're saying PC
low-quality Mack yeah yeah okay I mean
I'm a convert Evelyn had been a Mac guy
for the past you know five or six yeah I
converted to Mack five years ago - I
bought that well a question asked
question answered did we cover
everything I think we did definitely I
said that we would link to the exact
models of these two LaCie hard drives in
the description so that you can go to
Amazon buy it and then I get a few bucks
it's gonna say you should make some
money off that I should make Bank up
it's time for another that's why I'm so
wealthy we hope we answered your
questions or at least Nate did I
I don't have any answers but the
questions I have are so it's been a lot
of good answers it's not on anything
anything pertinent does teasing oh of
course
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