FASTER & CHEAPER External SSD For Creators

If you deal with videos or photos in any capacity, you’ve probably encountered various external SSDs like the Samsung T5s or T7s, Sandisk Extremes, or maybe just regular old hard disk drives. But what if I told you, you could get an external drive that’s customisable, and often much faster and cheaper? Today I compare HDDs vs SSDs v NVMe drives when it comes to the speeds you can get from these different drives. Using an NVMe enclosure will enable you to turn any NVMe drive into a portable external drive. I'll even show you the installation process (it's easy).

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[WM-eggh]

Yup, some comments also raised some good points about IOPS and cache, etc.

I also have one external WD Black external but looking at the enclosure in this video and many out there, content creators won't get too far with it because the temperature goes over 50-60 degrees. This is why I have one with a heatsink enclosure provided with WD black. I also modified my own enclosure so it is more portable.


Great for those who need it for 10-15 minutes, but not the heavy content creators who plan on using it with big data or over 1TB and longer duration 1-2 hours.

You could get away with it for longer depending on usage but as expensive as 5TB are these days, not worth the risk on the sacrifice with durability or resillence. Nevertheless, great for a compact, portable approach and even more sturdy than carrying around a hard drive or bigger dimension formats like ssd.

On production, SSD has been the way to go and even utilising the cloud streaming storage. instead not the cheapest nor faster approach but versatile.

[charlesturner]

Just want to say this was a really well presented video, you gave us all the info and made it clear what you did and didn't understand and explained things without giving any incorrect info

[cyrilbousmar]

Hi Nick, just wanted to say, it is a really good video ! Thanks for making it for all the folks out there. I would just like to point out that there is still one big parameter to take into account: the speed your I/O can manage. Because having a faster external disk on I/O that cannot handle much than the previous one would be useless.
Cheers

[sobellfanatic]

Thanks for the gigabits ps vs. mb ps. explanation: That's had me confused for a while!

[ElectroHouseProducer]

Good video thanks. That Norman Osborn meme was awesome😂

[onegreenev]

I have some decent enclosures for my NVME drives. None are 40gbps but those enclosures are for those with usb4. If you don't have usb4 it is pointless to spend the extra money for the faster external drives. Im glad there are now 4t drives available that run decent speeds. Now to get an enclosure that will handle 4 of them at once for my desktop external drive. I have decided to keep my external drives for photo/video only. Saves space on my internal drive.

[NonLegitNation]

i just bought a 2TB 2230 M.2 drive and really small enclosure for it. It cost me about $170USD total. With the included rubber sleeve installed the size comes out to 50mm x 48mm x 16mm. It included a short usb-c to usb-c cable but I bought a 32mm long male usb-c to male usb-c adaptor so i can use it just like a flashdrive.

[kotgc]

bits, Bytes; cents, Dollars; little, Big; little b, Big B; little bit or Big Bite.
x10 rule for sake of ease.
-ISP speeds look faster using more numbers, so they mess up the consistent Byte measurement, using bits likes 200 Mbps (mega bits per second, ~20 MBps (mega Bytes per second)).
-Size is usually Bytes rather than bits, but ISPs like to looks 'faster'.
-Keep it easy, just use bits and x10 if you see Bytes.
-Yes, technically 8 bits = 1 Byte (4 bits is a nibble).

[DaveDFX]

Some factors that determines speed from enclosures. Sata speeds are slower than Pcie. Also the enclosure. USB4/Thunderbolt 40Gbps, USB3.2 Gen 2x2 20gbps, USB3.2 gen 2 10Gbps . That will be the theoretical maximum speed no matter what NVME you put into the enclosure. For 10gb enclosures, just put cheaper ssds at more than half the price of a high end card. ssds with dram performance better for sustained loads. If the ssd is 7000 MBps, you can only get that speed mounted in a motherboard with direct access to full bandwidth. Wired standards are the bottleneck.

[AL-]

Thanks for the info. You've got a new sub.

[seeranos]

And then there’s Gibibits and Gibibytes! (And kibibytes, mibibytes, etc). The ‘ibi’ means that instead of each level going up by powers of 10, it goes up by powers of 2. So a megabyte is 1000 kilobytes or 1000^2 bytes. A mibibyte is 1024 kibibytes, or 1024^2 bytes. So just remember that KiB, MiB, GiB are larger (but not by an order of magnitude) than KB, MB, and GB.

[jackwang]

Thank you very much, & I appreciate your knowledge! :)

[kernzilla]

thunderbolt 4 enclosure will wake that 990 right up. should see 2500-3000 r/w

[Capt-Cran]

Thank you for the great video … so helpful!!

[aaronalquiza]

40gbps nvme enclosures are super fast but they usually have fans and become like tiny jet engines when you're accessing the drive a lot.

[Optemas]

Did some testing & found out that some SSD draw more power than others ... so if you are the kind of person that wants to use SSDs to transfer files from & to Mobile Gear like phones or Tablets/iPads (iOS or Android) or even Prof. Cameras, you may want to avoid the Samsong Pro lineup and go for SSDs that use less power like the Corsair MP600 Core XT or similer (not the MP 600 PRO ... the Core XT)...

[mrfroopy]

70 to 80 MB per second is slow for an HD.. thats because thats a 2.5 inch hdd and I would avoid those. Also you should NOT use those tiny enclosures for editing even with the thermal pad. It gets hot it will fail. These are great for transfering data. They are not for all day edit use. You need a unit with cooling or at least much much better airflow.

[CodyMWI]

Nvme enclosures slow down on large transfers and when dealing with non sequential writes. I.e. lots of small files. 40gbs is the way to go. Don’t bother with the 10gbs enclosures. In my opinion.

[tears_of_heck]

i have no idea what you're talking about NVME's seem to be about the same price, maybe slightly cheaper but nothing to validate this video

[mustafaonly]

Is it compatible with Android devices? Can I use it on my Android device with no issues