Long Term Review of the San Disk Professional Pro Blade System

In this video we talk about all my observations and experiences from using the Pro Blade system by San Disk professional for the last few months. I share some additional info I learned about htese drives as I got to know them and use them more. It's mostly good but there are a few things to watch out for with the Pro Blades so in this video I will tell you all that you need to know.

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[Mastermindlife]

honestly no need for any of this BUT, good video quality my dude, literally 80% of linus quality so soon, keep it up.

[Stash_Studio]

Great video - the Pro G40 Thunderbolt SSD is a must-have for editing 6k+ footage. When you connect the station containing four mags to your mac how do the different PROBLADES appear in Finder?

[DokoGaTV]

Thanks for the great review, now I'm sold. 👍🏻

[toekneecow]

love to see the in depth explanation for these systems! Any chance of a comparison video in the future of the G40 vs a external enclosed ssd?
I'm currently looking to put together a ACASIS Enclosure with Cooling Fan with the Crucial P3 Plus 4TB nvme or buying the G40.
Thanks!

[joshtackett]

have you tried using this in RAID with something like OWC SoftRaid? I would be interested to see if that fan issue happens if you ran all 4 drives in RAID 0 for example

[thedavidfunk_]

so great. Can you not put your own HDD's in the G RAID Mirror if you wanted to upgrade?

[lukaspictures]

Do you think it would be a good idea of using Sandisk G Drive Project with one HDD capacity for archival footage and one Pro Blade slot for keeping Lightroom or Davinci Resolve cache files?
For proper archival storage I am using NAS system and thinking if I could have another back up storage which definitely doesn't need to be fast or redundant with Raid 1. HDDS in those new sandisk enclosures are quite fast and with extra pro blade slot I could use one cable instead of having some kind of extra external SSD where I would keep cache files so that I could avoid keeping them on my laptops internal memory.

[Frank-yeol]

Would you recommend using the ProBlade station as a Raid?

[phamthohongduong]

Could you do a review of the Lexar Professional Workflow dock?

[jpoprockz]

Thanks for your review. Would you consider a NAS as a better alternative to a Pro Blade setup?

[jburns]

Looking at getting the Pro Blade Station 16TB kit. The current pricing at B&H & direct from WD seems to be the same. I noted that it’s also the same whether you get the station and the NVMe units separately vs. the “kit”. If instead, you get the station + 3 4TB NVMes + 1 4TB transporter, you save $30 on the transporter without impacting the cost of the 4th 4TB NVMe…

[jaymeez]

When they upgrade this to Thunderbolt 4 I will purchase

[mumutv]

Any chance they will bring out a Thunderbolt 5 update anytime soon?

[DarioGuerra-kh]

When using the raid mirror drive how fast is the blade drive it have? Good video by the way!

[AndrwgRe]

Use Noctua 40mm fan to replace the built in one! Will transform the acoustics :)

[michaelocunningham]

Hey Adam, do you happen to have a NAS system that you can recommend?

[Ohmz]

I've had mine a couple of months now and I like it. 
The only issues I'm having, is that I seem to have gotten the "New Blades" with the Black SN850x NVMes inside, which #1 makes my Read and Write speeds both at 3100 on all test. #2 makes my blade station overheat and shut down when transferring files between the blades. (Only on large files like 180gb +.) I'm not quite sure if that's the cause? But I Suspect it is...
The other issue I have with the Station is that the USB/Thunderbolt connections are very loose. the wires easily slip out or move in a way that disconnects the unit even with light movement..

[jonathanlennard]

why are you the only person on YouTube talking about this system

[dronefilmsgermany]

Is the pro blade a nas or only ssd enclosure?

[leakyabstraction]

I totally don't understand how would you use these devices as network file shares. My impression is that they're NAS-looking devices which can only be used as primitive external drives 😢