HI! Guys welcome back today's video is going to be about a new piece of equipment I've
purchased to help make my videos so if your a regular subscriber this may be of little
interest to you unless your interested in computer parts computer components in particular
external hard drives I don't know maybe it will give you a glimpse behind the scenes
about making YouTube videos other than that it will be pretty dull but if your in the
market for a new external hard drive your in the right place I'am going to get on with
the unboxing of this now I've made I've got quite a few external hard drives I'll go into
the reasons why in a minute I've made videos about these this particular brand I've made
technical videos about them before I think in this video rather than remaking the same
video and going into the technical specifications regurgitating them from the manufacturers
website I think I'll talk through the reasons why why I've got this particular brand model
but yeah let me show you what you get inside the box you recognise the packaging fresh
from Amazon its also available in the Apple store lets unbox this I need this for storage
of video for storing video footage for my YouTube videos my YouTube vlogs I go through
quite a lot I film in 1080p so standard HD but 60 frames per second which not everybody
likes but I I would rather have 60 frames per second right now than 4k at 25 if that
makes sense OK here we go right so we've got the LaCie LaCie Porsche design desktop drive
I'am going to use it with a Mac Book lets talk about the names briefly now people get
their real knickers in a twist when you pronounce things as they see incorrectly I looked up
the company on Wikipedia originally it was French founded in France its two French words
smashed together La and Cie they are capitalised but there is no space in French that's La
the Cie is an abbreviation Cie can be a number of things in French it's in the context of
a business its often used as an abbreviation for company so as you would have Tiffany and
Co Pepsi Co so its basically the co in English so I'am guessing originally it would have
been LaCie La Cie yeah but its been bought and sold the company a few times mainly to
Americans so they don't have a French accent who knows what its become LaCie LaCie I've
heard people even call it on YouTube LaCie Lacie it doesn't as long as you understand
what people mean but yeah people really go crazy for it again Porsche design for years
in the UK the cars Porches they were called Porches as in the Porsche 911 turns out the
Germans identify as Porsche so we where all calling it well we were all calling it Porsche
the Germans call themselves Porsche so its up to them if they identify as Porsche its
like Nike Nike in America and Adidas or Adidas kids go mad when you pronounce it either way
but things are pronounced differently in different countries for years in the UK Nike was pronounced
Nike because people looked at it and thought well you pronounce its like or bike or the
guys name Mike with an N in front so if your pronounce those like that theoretically you
put an N in front of ike its Nike turns out the American's identify as Nike they say it
was named after a Greek god the Greek god is called Νίκη and its not spelt like
that so they either spelt it wrong or they are pronouncing it wrong that's why they don't
answer they never talk about it well they did once they don't want to admit that they
they messed up but its the same with Adidas the American's call it Adidas they add an
extra syllable its the guys name Adolf Dassler he shortened his nick name is Adi he shortened
his surname Adi Das but for some reason the American's Adidas pronounce it differently
the kids go mental there have been some horror stories in terms of marketing I think Vauxhall
once released a car called a Nova which they then re branded the the Corsa because Nova
in certain countries meant slow its like calling your car the Vauxhall retard no one wanted
to buy the retard but anyway enough about marketing the key thing is if your starting
a company make sure the name doesn't mean anything stupid in foreign languages which
is hard easier said than done that's a pretty good one Apple logo is an Apple right so we
have the LaCie Porsche design desktop drive USB 3 USB 2 5 terabyte storage I got it from
Amazon you can get it from the Apple store there is the spec right I'am going to use
this with my Mac Book now first of all I bought these I thought they looked cool the idea
of them being slightly rugged seemed like a good idea these I then switched to the desktop
versions now these ones are powered by the USB cable they don't need an external power
source these ones the one I've just bought they need USB connection and also a power
supply so these if your working on the go you want to take your not working with the
Mac Book plugged in the mains you want it your working on a train in coffee shops these
are ideal if your at home these cost less per gigabyte of storage I'am going through
so many so many gigabytes I switched to these the other reason I switched to these these
get super hot the reason not to the point where they feel like they are going to do
any damage but they maybe I think that doesn't help their longevity where these have a little
bit more cooling they probably get as hot probably similar drive internally but this
has just got a bit more ventilation I think that might help these last a bit longer not
that I've had one go yet but I think if I keep heating them up they will the reason
I go for this brand continually I use other I've got a PC I use different brands with
the PC what's that a Western Digital my passport the reason I go for these in my experience
with Apple with Apple and their computers if they sell a product in their store so a
third party product they know its fully compatible with their computers I've had experience before
where I've bought a I bought a USB keyboard and the brand make a lot of keyboards so I
presumed I could buy a model up to the version they sold plugged it in it didn't work not
only did the additional features it not work the basic features that the model down had
were not fully compatible with this I think windows gets on better with compatibility
issues than Apples so yeah I've learnt my lesson a few times if Apple don't sell a product
or a particular brand I'd question the chances are it might be compatible but the thing with
with the products they sell they don't want them back or any issues so they only sell
products from and brands that they know will work 100% with their computers that is why
I've gone for these in the past because this company LaCie is actually now owned by Seagate
hard drives so I would they are probably going to have weather these weather the older models
have certainly in the future they are probably going to have if not the same very similar
components to the Seagate range which are slightly less expensive I think and if you
look at the models I can't remember what they are called but there is basically a version
of this with Seagate on it that is just a black box without the Porsche design features
it looks very similar again with these it doesn't have the orange rubber I think they
are what are they called I really can't remember but yeah Seagate do these products effectively
in different with different external packaging different design features so that's something
else to look out for certainly if I was buying one for a PC I might consider the Seagate
versions if they were less expensive if I wasn't buying them for the Mac so this we
have OK this is the dark grey you have a light there on the front as you can see Porsche
Design there lets give it a rotation on the back USB power cable and on off button on
the underside venting help keep it cool I'll show you the difference in colour to the standard
silver I had before so that's the the new dark grey one and my older silver one pretty
good right lets see what else we've got in the box OK pretty straight forward should
be a USB cable and a mains plug mains adaptor I'am guessing depending in which country that
bit is going to vary that is a euro one and that is for here in the UK you have three
pins that's it click it back out if you want to go to Europe perfect that can plug in like
that USB cable OK its a pretty standard connections there right these have USB these I had the
thunderbolt version I've had a few of these you can also connect USB standard USB into
the rugged you get not only do you get the hard wired thunderbolt cable you also get
a separate USB cable that will plug in that will plug in there standard USB cable will
also plug in there so you can connect these via USB if you want to connect them to something
that doesn't have thunderbolt the reason the reason I've gone for the powered version which
is USB over thunderbolt I haven't noticed I'll be honest I haven't noticed really any
significant difference in video editing speeds using the mains powered USB 3 over the thunderbolt
when you read the technical specs the differences they talk about in reality the the software
and processor of this couldn't it doesn't matter this couldn't keep up the software
couldn't process the stuff fast enough even if the drives even regardless if your using
USB or this also per gigabyte this panned out this panned out quite a bit less expensive
per gigabyte than the rugged equivalent and I'am probably only going to use it indoors
the other thing I should talk about is setting them up in terms of format when I first got
these I thought it would be cool to be able to transfer files in between the mac and PC
it didn't kind of pan out particularly well you have to use you can use three different
formats one id optimised for mac only that's what I'am going to use with this one the reason
being you can transfer larger files up to four up to four gigabytes is the maximum you
can transfer with the windows optimised version there is a there is a half way house I think
called X fat but that might slow things down but yeah it does mean you can transfer between
the two systems I thought it would be a good idea for me to be able to do that I changed
my mind I'am literally going to partition this one for video production for final cut
pro I'am going to format it in the HFS I think it is which is the optimised for the macbook
what I what I do when I produce a video I take the memory card from the camera I put
it in the mac this macs got a memory card slot I stick the memory card in there I then
transfer the files straight from the memory card I then would plug in the hard drive I
transfer the files from the cameras memory card onto the hard drive so the files then
exist in two places I remove the memory card the camera memory card but I don't delete
them until I finished with them on here the rule of computer files is if they don't exist
in two places they may as well not exist because these things can go wrong so yeah until I've
done what I need to do I keep the footage the the camera footage the raw camera footage
on the card which also puts pressure on me to edit the video because you I'll run out
I'll run out of space pretty quickly filing at 30 60 frame per second on the camera memory
card I can only do so many vlogs and then once I've finished editing and uploaded the
video then delete the footage so technically until I've finished editing a vlog it exists
in two places also with the macbook I think this one has only got a 250 gig hard drive
some of my videos are massive the they a half an hour video can with quite a bit of editing
can finished video could be around ten gigabytes which is also why the file format that only
allows you to transfer 4 gigs is useless to me so yeah my finished finished export video
can be around ten gigs maybe less maybe a little bit sometimes more I don't compress
them so it takes a long time to upload but the final cut pro file for something like
a ten or twelve gig vlog can be in excess of 100 gigabytes so not only do I have the
raw footage on here all the files when I open up final cut pro it gives you when you create
a library it asks you where it wants to what location for the library and the default setting
is folders on your computer so it will be my documents somewhere like that OK the camera
got bored and turned itself off right what was I saying yeah I don't know how many hours
these have got in them but I basically fill them up and but a new one also that means
I get to keep a lot of my old footage just incase I ever need it for B roll I very rarely
do I just thought it would be cool to keep it all so anyway Ia'm going to stop rambling
on Ihope you found this video useful not a great deal of technical specifications you
can look those up on the on LaCie's website I definitely recommend them I've used them
a few for the mac like I said if I wasn't using them on the mac I might look well I
have bought other brands I've bought Western digital ones for my PC I might also look at
their parent company Seagate drives in a similar design I like the I like the design of these
ones the rugged design for portability the thing with these is all hard rives although
they are called rugged when they are in use so when you power them up no hard drive when
its spinning up these aren't I don't think these are solid state but no no disc drive
is that rugged when it is running you drop when its running you might have some issues
but other than that the rubber casing can you can take the rubber casing off as well
but yeah like I said they get a bit hot which concerns me for longevity so I've switched
to the mains operated ones also they cost less so thanks for watching I'll see you see
you in the next video