BETTER, CHEAPER & SMALLER External Portable SSD | Works on MAC & PC!

so you're looking for a portable storage as a content creator perhaps you're editing on the go on a laptop and you're looking for some budgets but still fast storage options on an SSD and you're looking at some of the Samsung t7s you're looking at a sound disc external ssds and they're all roughly around 100 pounds or dollars for one terabyte model and you're getting roughly about 1 000 up to 1000 megabytes per second transfer speeds what if there was a way how you can actually save money have potentially even faster speeds and have much better endurance and here's where these underrated endo2 enclosures come in let me explain looking for a cheap way to license your windows check out who Keys through the links in the video description make sure to use the code tn20 to get a 30 off paste the license to the activation settings and you're all done this license is for Windows 10 but you can upgrade it to Windows 11 for free they also offer Microsoft Office 19 license use the same called tn20 to get a 30 off check out who keys.com in the video description below so then when you're looking at the size of the Samsung t7s or SanDisk drives or some of them one of the main thing is that they're quite big and perhaps you're looking for something that is much smaller then having these enclosures here is another way apart from being smaller than some of the you know competitors that you can just buy off the shelf what this also feature is actually cheaper price for example if you're looking at the actual enclosures you can see here this one goes for 18 19 the some of the more expensive this one here is actually 15 18 19 so you can pretty confidently pick up one that's around 20 right and then the other question is which SSD should it be using because you can go with very high-end m.2 ssds but actually that's not really the point here the Point here is to get still the same speeds same endurance if not better endurance and even cheaper so what I have found is that there is this drive called the team group mp33 drive and as you can see over here right now this goes for 53 53 dollars for one terabyte which is absolutely ridiculous then if you buy a two pack of these you actually save one dollar and it's um 104 for two terabytes if you want to go with the two terabyte model it's 158 dollars which is not actually the best bank for bulk and perhaps you're gonna have to look for a different drive but for one terabyte model it's very hard to beat this SSD right now and you might be looking at the specs and saying look it's only 1800 up to megabytes per second reader write speeds it's not even gen 3 kind of maximum speeds but the thing is most of these m.2 enclosures are actually 10 gigabits per second enclosures and that's going to be the max cap for you which theoretically means up to 1250 megabytes per second speeds so that drives going to be plenty for that but let's say you want to pop this later on into your PC if you wanted to you actually get even faster speed than what you get on the enclosure which is even nicer and then the other thing I want to talk about this is the actual terabyte written spec of this now these Stripes one terabyte drives come at 600 terabytes written spec over the five years which basically means that you can rewrite 30 roughly around 30 of the drive every single day so for here that would mean 300 gigabytes every single day on the drive of the drive for example if you're doing recording on the likes of Blackmagic here what I'm recording I'm using one of these Solutions you can record 300 gigabytes every single day for the next five years and it's completely fine if you go with some of the more cheaper options or some of the competitors for example Kingston nv1 or nv2 drives which can be a little bit more expensive or sometimes around the same price then they offer about half the terabytes written spec than this one around 300 or sometimes even less than that which just makes this drive very very very nice there is another drive around the same price point it's slightly more expensive but I still think worth checking out which is Western Digital sn570 which still has 600 terabytes written spec for one terabyte drive but it's a little bit more expensive if you put that drive in the PC it's slightly faster but I think for an Ender 2 enclosure the mp33 is like the ideal drive so what we've established so far is it's smaller it's more affordable because right now all together these two the enclosure and the drive are roughly around 70 73 dollars so getting this about 25 to 30 percent cheaper than a Samsung t7 for example now is how do you actually build this right you can go with all sorts of these enclosures but there's some of the things that you need to look out for an enclosure some of them are not very good operated and are not very good but this one over here is a new one from a team group this is ec01 it says read and write speeds 1000 megabytes per second up to so it's USB 3.2 Gen 2 X1 slot which is 10 gigabits per second but inside the Box you will have the enclosure a USB cable which is nice actually because this is USBC to USBC cable but there's an adapter to USB type A as well if you want to do that and then you've got some rubber standoffs now installing the SSD is super super simple and everything can do it look at that so any of these enclosures will have some kind of access to inside the case this one here has a rubber enclosure around it to makes it very very nice but also if you look around here there's actually a Grille which lets a lot of the heat anticipate which keeps the drive much cooler than some of the other ones you might have on the market and this is one of the things you want to look out for is something that has good cooling for the drive so in here you just literally take hold of the back of this and then it just pops off like that you can take it off and what you can and what you can see underneath is a thermal pad in here and then this is where the m.2 is going to get installed pick up your under two line it up in there it only goes one way can't go the other way it goes like a little bit on an anger angle you push it in it keeps sticking up so don't worry about it push it on that kind of angle so I'll show you on this and on this side as well so you pop it in on kind of this type of angle push it in and then the different enclosures might have kind of a different way how you can install this or how it keeps hold of this but this one here is like a rubber grommet there so what you can do is just push the Ender two down and then get the rubber grommet kind of pushed on the side a little bit so you can push the m.2 inside there and then that rubber kind of standoff thing there holds it down just like that and that's it next thing you want to do is make sure that you peel off this little plastic on the thermal pad so we can actually cool down the SSD nicely there's this clean off pop it back and that's it that's basically installed Hardware wise I'm going to pop it back into this nice rubber case and then you're going to take the cable that was attached to it plug it in there I'm sure this is very self-explanatory but right now I'm going to use the USBC pod and then on your laptop on your PC plug into any of the USBC Parts okay I'm gonna plug it in there and as you can see there is a little LED that's lit up here on the team group that team group led has lit up so now when you're on your PC or Mac by the way this works on Mac as well but if you're looking to increase your max storage um much more I get a little bit of faster speeds because the Mac SSD is not upgradable internally you can use these as well but there's a bit of a faster way how you can do it on Mac so if you're a Mac I'd highly recommend you check out my you know Mac or Mac Mini or M1 Ultra or Mac external SSD tutorial because it's slightly different thinking behind there so I highly recommend check out that but in essence this SSD will work on both of them and you can do it exactly the same so now once we have installed this if you open my computer you probably see that there is no ssds installed and you're thinking oh goodness me something's wrong I don't know what to do actually this is completely fine what we need to do is initialize the drive so what you want to do is hit your Windows key and then type in disk man management or create and format hard disk partitions when you open that it's going to pop up straight away with this message here that says You must initialize this before we can actually access it so you're basically going to leave it to GPT press ok okay and if I make this a little bit bigger you can see all the discs here that are inside your system but there's a disk one here that is our one terabyte drive over here and you can see this is unallocated space there this black little bar there this basically means that you have to tell this disk to do you want to keep this as one big sausage of a you know storage space or like how do you want to set this up basically second setting it up as like one big storage is what I would recommend you right click on that section there new simple volume you click next you click next assign the following letter if you want to change the drive letter next here's the file system if you're using Windows then then NTFS is you know the one that probably works for you if you want to use it on Windows and Mac then the x-fat will probably work a little bit better we're going to call it a team group one terabyte mp33 perform a quick format next finish and boom what you see is straight away window sees ooh there's new SSD installed and now this space has gone blue instead of black and if we go to our my computer you can see voila here it is you can open the drive and then it's accessible here and you can easily just drag some files in there boom did you see that that worked very very well what we can do now is actually see how fast is this SSD now I have plugged it in onto this USBC Port so I'm not sure what speeds of this SSD is in there but we'll find out now so one of the ways how you can do it is a crystal disk mark for example or you can get a Blackmagic disc speed test or something like that they're all for free one terabyte drive there we're gonna put settings as nvme SSD and we'll press go look at that read speed 1062 megabytes per second so we're actually getting speeds faster than what we have under the box here this is 1000 megabytes per second we're getting 62 megabytes per second faster which is 6.2 percent better speeds than what's advertised while waiting for the test to complete you can see if you wanted to buy this separately and the cheapest cheapest one you can find over here is like a team group one actually they're on one eighty four dollars so right now this is on a deal there I'm not sure if we would reach exactly the same speeds there there is crucial one but this is 800 megabytes per second so a little bit slower up to that is there is one terabyte one 10 gigabits per second so roughly about the same speeds as our here hundred and twenty dollars and if we are looking at the Samsung one this is on a deal right here now uh hundred dollars now this is bigger what's better about that drive is that it's a little bit rugged and ip65 rated so maybe if you need that you know you can get that from that drive but then we don't have that on the SanDisk Extreme one here 1050 megabytes per second that is up to so I'm not very confident that you actually see those speeds there and then the Samsung t7 here again 100 so you can see around 75 percent slower so about 25 cheaper option here and then the write speeds here 947 megabytes per second which is still very very fast so if you want to do any of the editing photo editing or something like that on the go it's completely fine to do it with this drive then another other thing you might be wondering is can I use this on the Blackmagic you know cameras as an external SSD and yeah that's completely fine you can completely do it as you can see it's fast enough to handle those speeds no problem now I could feel that the drive is a little bit getting warm and if I'm looking underneath the drive over here that's where we put the actual thermal pad and it's on the SSD I can feel that this enclosure is is getting warm which is a very good sign which means that it's taking the heat off the SSD meaning that the SSD will run at better temperatures which means it's not going to throttle in terms of the speeds and so on now if I'm gonna take the drive off and not going to use the USB C Port there okay and use the USB type a pod which is like a nice little adapter there so I'm going to plug this into the USB type a port here now let's do exactly the same test see if we lose any speed there bear in mind you do have to have certain speed ports on your motherboard because not all type A ports on the motherboard are 10 gigabits per second so if you're not sure just try a different pod but usually there's a little kind of a sign on it that says like SSD and then 10 that means that it's 10 gigabits per second sometimes it's five and so it might not be as fast but most of them are like that so we're gonna Press Start and let's see if we get any different read and write speeds here as you can see very interestingly it is slower I can see 450 megabytes per second even though this should be 10 gigabit pod there you can see the write speed again half the speed so let's try plugging it into a different part here and let's try that again there we go look at that different part there and then 1061 megabytes per second interestingly they have a wrong Port name in here this is 10 there as well but it's not 10 gigabits per second by the way everything that I'm talking about in this video I'm gonna leave them Linked In the description below that is the m.2 ssds and the enclosures everything you can find in the description below and now look at that different pod 1060 megabytes per second and 950 megabytes per second read and write speeds now what I like about this is that you do get the USB type A to type c options because a lot of the drives come straight away with only type c cable and the thing is it's not very easy to find a type a USB cable that is 10 gigabits per second written kind of a spec because often I have tried to use you know type c to type a cables and they're like five gigabits or not actually 10 gigabits rated so you're not going to get that speed but now even if your PC or laptop or whatever doesn't have type c ports you can still use type A and get the speeds of this which is just absolutely amazing and look how small this is you can just put it anywhere it's like a two pen kind of size just put it in the pocket and there's one terabyte of storage by the way you can have more than one terabytes in there you can have two terabytes if you want but if you have two terabyte models I'm gonna leave some recommendations in the description below as well at the time of making this video what's the like best pricing option there so you're not gonna buy the same drive two terabytes model because it's actually a little bit more expensive than that because one terabyte is 53 and then two terabytes is 153 which is actually not worth that but we can find the two terabyte model Drive per terabyte you'll get a better price but the point is if you want cheap external portable storage then this is the best option I would recommend anyone to do this instead of going like Samsung drives there are some workflows in ways why you would want like something like that like the ruggedness or something like that but you can buy rugged and the two enclosure drives as well if you want to get that but check them out in the description below thanks guys for watching and I'll see you next time bye [Music] foreign [Music]

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Length: 17min 3sec (1023 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 19 2023