999 1000 1001 man these hard drives are great for my guns but I need something
portable I found the answer today we're gonna compare the Seagate to the samsung
portable hard drives all right before we get into details about these two
external external portable hard drives I want to let you know that as of October
2017 these are two of the best external portable hard drives in the link below I
will include an updated version so if you're watching this at a future date
you can see which which portable external hard drives are the latest and
greatest now I would appreciate if you do want to purchase either one of these
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that basically helps me continue making great videos for you so if you're like
me and you shoot a lot of video and a lot of photos you start running out of
hard drive space really quickly so the reason I chose both of these external
hard drives was because they have the capacity to store a lot of memory all
right now the Seagate goes up to 5 terabytes and the Samsung goes up to 2
terabytes so when it comes to memory the winner clearly is Seagate because 5
terabytes is just more than double the size of this so the price differential
there's no comparison the Seagate destroys the Samsung so if you're on the
extreme budget or you just want to you want to back things up you can buy two
of these and it still would be less than one samsung here are the prices for two
terabytes each as of October 2017 and here the price of these two drives that
I have this is 5 terabytes and is two terabytes both of these external
hard drives are mac and pc compatible and they both have a USB 3.0 so you can
hook this right up to your computer well one thing I'll say is I don't like these
long cords to me that gets annoying and actually the old Sam old Samsung used to
be a lot smaller but they both have about similar size cords and to me this
gets a little annoying because I like to just plug it in and I don't want a cord
going everywhere on my desk and it's kind of distracting if you like that
extra space being able to move it around if you travel a lot and you're on it
like an airplane or something you need to put it like in a pocket having these
long cords can be helpful now let's talk about how fast you're able to transfer
your photos and your videos onto your computer
with both of these external hard drives there's something called a read or write
speed and that's a megabytes per second and that's just the ability of the data
on your camera to go on to your computer and and then transfer on to these
external hard drives so for the Samsung is 450 megabytes per second and for the
Seagate it's a hundred megabytes per second maximum so think about that as
having two different cars right this one drives can go up to 450 miles per hour
and this one can only drive 100 miles per hour
so obviously the Samsung is much better because you're going to be able to
transfer your files much quickly so if you shoot a lot of your shooting raw and
you shoot a ton of footage and you have a lot of files that you need to
transport the Samsung is going to be a clear winner now let's talk about what's
inside the Seagate has moving parts because it's not a solid-state drive
whereas the Samsung is a solid-state drive so it has no moving parts so most
likely the Samsung will last longer than the Seagate but to me they're both very
I've never had any Seagate drives die so to me I would buy both I if I needed the
space I use the Seagate to back everything up because it's got five
terabytes but then I take my best footage my portfolio footage the footage
that I absolutely cannot lose and I use this solid-state drive the Samsung
because I know it's more reliable now I always
recommend backing up with at least two external hard drives but if you if
you're really worried about losing your footage then you want to use the Samsung
because it is a solid-state drive alright now let's talk about the size
it's if I tell you the inches it's really hard for you you get a visual
picture so let me take my iPhone 7 if I just put this up to my iPhone 7 put my
iPhone 7 in front of it as you can see
it's about the same size as my iPhone 7 it's not quite as long but it's a little
thicker and then in terms of thickness you can see the difference alright
Samsung it's a lot much much smaller it's it's almost half the size of my
iPhone even is and in terms of thickness it's not much difference
alright so to me the size and weight clearly clearly goes to the Samsung
so if portability is really a factor for you then you want to go with the Samsung
so let me wrap this up in conclusion these are both great external hard
drives if you're on any budget and you really can't spend the money I would go
with the CA you can backup all your images you can buy two of these for less
than one price of this for the same amount of storage so you can buy two of
these this would give you more peace of mind and you're going to get good
results now if you're a little more serious and you don't want to lose your
footage I would use the Samsung I personally like the Samsung if it wasn't
so expensive I would buy more but what I usually do is buy the Seagate 2
you backup all my footage and then I put my edited footage and just my selects
onto my Samsung because I have a peace of mind that it's really never gonna
break I mean there's always that possibility that this drive may die but
most likely it won't it's a solid-state drive and it's much smaller so to me
when you shoot a lot you start building up in so many of these hard drives it's
good to have portable drives so if if money is no object I would go with this
but if you're on a budget I would go with the Seagate so hope that helped if
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