The Fastest External SSD for Video Editing | M1 Mac

so i wanted to follow up on a video that i did about saving a little bit of money by editing on an external ssd well some of you weighed in about some of the options that i had recommended and even recommending some faster external ssds well today i actually have one of the fastest external ssd options out there and we're going to be talking about it you know i got some notes let's go what is going on you beautiful humans welcome back to the channel and hey if you are new around here welcome youtube's open 24 7. i just happen to take a nap every now and again so you're not late now that being said what i actually wanted to do is follow up on a video that i did when i talked about saving some money editing on an external ssd especially when it comes to the new m1 max and that's something that we're actually going to be talking about now for those of you that are interested in several parts of this video or various parts that you may want to skip to i'm creating timestamps within the video so that you can point yourself in that direction to wherever you need to be now what i am doing here is i am going to be talking about one of the fastest external ssd setups and this is a diy setup and many of you have reached out about nvme drives and thunderbolt 3 enclosures so this is what i have today and what we're going to be doing is bringing you behind the scenes i'm going to be bringing you doing a little bts showing you some workflow with a 4k timeline that sony a7s 3 footage that i have featured before but a little bit different this time where i have removed all the render files any optimization or anything like that because i had background render on in that last video so if you haven't checked that out i will link that up but i did have background render on but in this one i've removed all of the render files so we are going to run through that that timeline and show you scrubbing through it we're going to render it from start to finish and then we're going to export to a prores 422 now what i've invested in is a pcie gen 4 ssd an nvme ssd that i have actually put in this fledging enclosure that is thunderbolt 3 compatible so it is at thunderbolt 3 speeds whereas with the sandisk and something like the samsung t7 you're talking about a 3.1 gen 2 usb where you're not going to get the full benefits of thunderbolt 3. let me quickly offer some context when we talk about this pcie gen 4 ssd from silicon power in that it has rated and advertised read and write speeds of 5 000 megabytes per second and 4 400 megabytes per second respectively the thing is is that if you install it inside of a pc with a motherboard that can that can accept a gen 4 ssd like this then you will get closer to those read and write speeds however for thunderbolt 3 regardless of the machine that you're using although we will talk about what's happening with the m1 max but you're not going to get those advertised speeds so that is just full context just so that you know now before we get in behind the scenes let's actually talk about setting up this enclosure because it's fairly easy to do now for this diy setup what you're going to want to do is with the enclosure you're going to remove the screws from this enclosure and this enclosure is aluminum now once those are removed you'll also notice that there's a screw on the board itself and that one screw is what actually holds in the ssd now you'll notice as far as the connections are concerned that the nvme can fit in basically one way so go ahead and line up the ssd and gently advance it in now of course you'll notice that it pops up a bit but that's actually normal so gently push the ssd down and secure it to the board then there's actually some optional thermal tape that you can apply on top of the ssd and actually prefer to leave the sticker from the ssd on so i just put the thermal tape on top of that now one of the main reasons why i did choose this enclosure was the fact that it does have an internal fan which runs at idle but it'll kick up every now and again and it sounds like a very faint like distant wind it's not something that i really like pay attention to or pick up and it only lasts for like a second and then it just sort of cycles just as the ssd is being used for like large transfers or even editing why don't we go ahead and bring in behind the scenes where i test out the thunderbolt 3 enclosure along with the silicon power gen 4 m2 ssd but i also make a comparison with the sandisk extreme pro all right here we are in the timeline and one of the things that i wanted to do so we are on the nvme with the enclosure and so no background rendering happening all of the render files have been removed the timeline has changed just a little bit but all of the those transitions and correction is is in there but what i wanted to show you is kind of playing through this with like i said no background render on like it was on last time we're going to hit some third-party transitions here third-party transition right there third-party plug-in and just kind of moving right along anything that you see is because obviously um and it's actually holding up pretty well as far as the frames but yeah if i put stabilization or any kind of um optical flow in there like i said it hasn't been rendered but it's it's holding up really well and i just you'll see that the status bar hasn't changed at all moving through that transition another third-party plug-in still moving and of course if i wanted to just kind of move through the timeline scrub through i wanted to come back we'll go back here same thing still working through it holding up as far as playback is concerned all right so now what we're going to do is going to go render everything before we do export so last time i shared numbers with just the export and of course we had the background render on so let's actually see what that looks like as far as rendering everything so we are going to render all and i am going to see what that takes i'll see you back here all right so that was the render and what we'll then do is we will go for the export so again um that's how if i don't have background render on that's what i would do i would obviously check the clips make sure stabilization optical flow any of the transitions everything was working so that's done and then the next thing i would do is we will export it to prores for apple prores 422 and then we'll see what that takes and i'll see you back here after that all right now what we're going to do is switch over do everything rinse and repeat on the sandisk see what we get all right so we're here on the sandisk same setup rinse and repeat here as you'll see this task has not been performed render files anything that had been optimized or rendered in the previous one it's all done all gone and so as you'll see we'll just play through i think this was kind of the same spot where we were last time playing through that third party plug-in again one of the things i will tell you is that from pixel film studio certain plugins that i have transitions are working just fine not all of them and i certainly can't list them all out you'll just have to kind of go to the website any kind of jumping around again stabilization if it's been applied or optical flow you're not going to see that let's take a look so handling the playback pretty well transitions right there again as you'll see it's still moving adjustment layer of course that's slowed [Music] down and if we want to move through the timeline play that clip that slowed down timeline here i can certainly come over to these clips nothing's moving in this clip just the leaves all right why don't we do a render test on sandisk see what we get and i'll catch you back here in a minute all right that's interesting so maybe 22 seconds longer on the extreme all right so why don't we go ahead and see what that exports going to look like same deal do a master file prores 422 and we will do test two because i think there's already another one in here stream pop it in and again i'll see you right back here so we've already passed 726 we've already passed what the nvme did but not by much because we're at 91 percent and usually it'll kind of kick over pretty quick here but yeah like i said i just wanted to show you that ram every time i talk about it oh there we go all right got my notes here because i couldn't memorize everything now one of the biggest strengths i think as far as these nvmes and taking advantage of that thunderbolt 3 is as video editors were moving large files so moving in an over 400 gigabyte folder from the internal on the m1 to the nvme we actually found that that only took about three minutes now the peak read and write was 502 megabytes on the read and the right was actually 2500 megabytes now the interesting thing with the case with the case on i was getting temps of around 38 degrees celsius which translates to about 100 degrees fahrenheit but i ended up taking the lid off of that and so that temp was actually at 99 degrees celsius and over 200 degrees fahrenheit and of course at that point i'm pretty sure it's it's going to start to throttle so even having that lid off of course that's dissipating the heat but i just really wanted to see what the chip actually looked like and i you know i didn't really want to test how long i could sustain that but it definitely got hot now transferring that same folder to the extreme ssd that actually took about eight minutes now of course i can't take the case off so the temperatures i was getting was around 51 degrees celsius and 124 degrees fahrenheit now recapping those numbers on the render and export on the nvme we actually got on that 4k timeline a read and write so peak read and write of 141 and 291 respectively now the render time actually took 12 minutes and 24 seconds now again talking about that read and write and what the drive is capable of there's going to be some bottleneck in the thunderbolt 3 but also the fact of just the program itself now here's the thing with that slc cache that the the drive actually has that's where these nles these video editors uh they like to put that into the cache and honestly i wasn't really seeing that max out at all and that's one of the advantages of this nvme and of course i will link up the details so that you can do your own research and of course adding to that render just as far as your workflow is concerned budgeting that time we saw that on that 4k timeline to export it took 7 minutes and 11 seconds and of course the peak read and write was 243 megabytes per second and 343 megabytes per second now moving over to the sandisk extreme pro and so if those of you who have invested in that or samsung t7 i wanted to do that for you so the peak read and write on that render was 104 megabytes per second and 190 megabytes per second as far as the peak reading right now the render time actually took 12 minutes and 30 seconds very close to the render time of the nvme now the export time was also interesting and getting a peak read and write of 243 on the read and 313 on the right but the fact that it exported in seven minutes and 45 seconds again still close to the nvme now i wanted to do an internal render and export just for comparison and the interesting thing is with the internal render on that 4k the read and write so that was 394 megabytes and the right was over a thousand megabytes in the internal and the render time was 10 minutes and 56 seconds which is really interesting again fairly close to the sandisk and the uh silicon power and vme now the export time so the read and write on that was 494 megabytes per second and 1300 megabytes per second on that on that export and that export time now that was four minutes and 10 seconds so quite a bit you know three minutes as far as getting it done sooner um but again three minutes for many of you out there that might not be that big of a deal now for the pros out there you know you're cutting each and every day three minutes can certainly add up but again not that significant now one of the interesting things is is that when we look at the read and write compared to the intel machine and the m1 the thing with the m1 is that we are finding that there's something going on with the thunderbolt 3 communication and i don't know i don't think this is hardware i do think this is something that is related to big sur anybody in the community because i'm just one man here and i'm trying i've worked days on this trying to figure things out the only thing that i can come up with is that this is a kernel issue something in the code with the x86 architecture or having bixer on these intel machines and it's not completely fully optimized even though this is apple's ecosystem for the chipset itself and for these uh for the bus so for the thunderbolt 3 ports but anybody can weigh in hit me up in the comment section below help the community out help me out because i've been kind of trying to figure this out myself but the nvme on the intel i was getting 26.65 and 26.55 now on the nvme on the m1 this was interesting i was getting 2 800 and 11.50 so again very interesting here that it would be cut basically in half so like i said not sure if that's a kernel issue something with big sur i really hope that there's an update and if there is i will certainly update you all now black magic on the m1 this is interesting and again you know all of these synthetic benchmarks have their own way of doing these things so blackmagic on the m1 was 2524 and 2527 so again you know take that as you will i'm taking the real benchmarks that i'm getting from my actual workflow and of course the extreme on the intel 1033 and 995. now extreme on the m1 745 and 54. and of course the internal and m1 that was 3367 and 3211. so in real workflow here not just synthetic benchmarks does that slow down in thunderbolt 3 is that concerning well we know that this is really efficient and being able to provide us with a little bit more future in having an enclosure like this now the enclosure this one was around 150 whereas the nvme or the ssd that is in here was also around 150 so you're coming in at around 300 us whereas a terabyte this is a terabyte but this is also a terabyte coming in anywhere from 129 to maybe 160 169 depending on the sales and where you are for a terabyte you know here's the thing like yes this is less expensive on the front end but will this give me more longevity and more upgrade ability down the road because if thunderbolt 4 comes around anytime soon then just using the same ssd but a different enclosure and then getting closer to those rated and advertised read and write speeds and of course talking about your purchases that you made if you bought the sandisk xtreme pro or a samsung t5 or t7 i don't think that you made a bad decision there because we're talking about real world workflow here and if you're someone who has already purchased or is thinking about purchasing an enclosure like this and putting in an ssd i also think that that is a good investment as well so it's just not for everyone doing this diy kind of stuff and trying to figure these things out it's not for everyone because some people just want to be able to pick this up plug it in it's very lightweight very portable not to say that this is not either but this definitely has a much smaller footprint and is definitely more ubiquitous out there in in the world of just mobile computing and even desktop computing so as more data comes in i will certainly update you in the comment section below because this is where i am i'm also over on twitter so as stuff comes in and if you find out some things definitely hit me up in the comment section below or over on twitter so that we can share that with the community and help each other out especially making these buying decisions you go out there and do those things that matter you keep rocking the faces and if you've made it this far i really appreciate your time and attention on this one go do those things i'ma keep doing this stuff here and providing you with some value thanks so much for tuning in and i'll catch you right back here on the next one

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Length: 19min 31sec (1171 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 24 2020