If you're editing in Resolve, there's a built in clone tool with checksum that's worth considering

Good advice

@@MrAlexTechwhere exactly can you find it?

Good point! Thanks for sharing!

@@theowlfromduolingo7982 Clone tool can be found in the media tab

. I'm building a new PC , last time I did this was 11 years ago . I was left in awe/flabbergasted as I installed the M.2 ssd (samsung 980 pro 2tb) on my motherboard. Like, Holy fuck ! Its like a stick of butter 🧈. Recently, I got a Crucial p5 m.2 as a second partition. Just amazing how fast technology improves.

​@@budz.47I'm building a new pc too and went all in with a motherboard that takes three m.2 drives just to keep the whole thing with as few cables as possible.

hey, can you maybe help me with this question - does this device work as expected when connected to an android/iphone with password protection on, or does the password protection need to be removed in order to be connected to and files shown on an android/iphone? which phone do you use?

Thank you :)

NVME doesn't give you anything if it's hanging off a USB strictly speaking. If USB is used anywhere in the connection, it will be the limiting factor in most cases, unless we're talking about old gear that shouldn't be used anyway. The whole raison d'etre of NVME is direct attachment by PCI-E which you are not using or gaining anything from if there is a USB connection of some flavor in between. So, to sum it up, you cannot have NVME connected by USB as one is the opposite of the other, it's like saying your Ferrari is transported faster by a freight train than a Mercedes. No, it's not, both are loaded on the same freight train(USB) so their speed is limited to that of the train(USB), the V12(NVME) in the Ferrari doesn't make it move any faster by train(USB). Conclusion: you cannot have "NVME connected by USB" by definition of what NVME is.

@@noth606: I must have forgotten to turn my idiot attractor off, it's obviously still cranked right up to 11. 🙄

I edit 4k 12 bit true unbayered raw directly from nvme drive in 3.2 usb enclosure. 400MBs goes easy. I also edit 4k 10bit directly from 100MBs sd card with 3.1 usb reader. For 4k compressed h264 and h265 files everything over 100MBs is overkill 😆

@@smalldeekgeorge Agreed that it's overkill unless it's multiple streams.

I copied over 300 gigs yesterday by drag and drop from one X9 to another. The speed was consistent and fast all the way through.

But I normally use Carbon Copy Cloner for backing up and one backup I did was 5 times faster than the same one to HDD.

40-50 MB/s is the USB2.0 limit, you need a new cable

@@haavardnj I’m using multi, high quality TB3 and TB4 cables. The problem is either the enclosure or the SSDs and I’ve used multiple enclosures and SSDs.

thanks so much!

Anything biger than 4tb you are best off getting an enterprise HDD based ext drive and just keeping that data in immediate use on SSD.

I love the samsung shield, and cheaper now

Thank you. It’s all an act for the camera and my diffusion filter!

But the drive locally if it’s cheaper, save your money! The link is purely for them to track referrals from the vid.

I’ve copied a 200gb file from one X9 pro drive to another and it maintained the same speed.

@@philipbloomours does the same thing. Plummets speed after a few minute when copying large files. 1.2tb folder basically slowed down to a crawl after a few minutes.

Just to add I have left a couple of the X6 in Africa and had them posted over by African filmmakers or brought over by colleagues when data rates wouldn't allow folks to upload for editing and grading due to cost. Prev they would have tried to get a complete HDD to someone and in some starting out filmmakers that was their only HDD. Helped a fair few African nature shorts get made for film fest entries and the like.

Smart!

As cheap as these?

@@philipbloom The X10 however looks like a better deal at today’s prices. Of course these fluctuate from week to week.

​@@philipbloomwhats the tbw write endurance of yur ssd for editing?

Thanks. Very happy with this though. Very affordable, reliable and tiny.

@@philipbloom its great for out of the box product 100% and if you are not IT inclined I do not recommend my proposed solution 🙈 I’m an engineer and a techno dork I do IT for a living so for me its dead easy but some people might struggle.. (you have been warned, there is no free lunch 👀)

Scattered about? Did I show or say that? Mine are very organised in cabinets. Can you store 20 years of projects, some of them 5tb big, on your server?

@@philipbloom Scattered might not have been the best term there but seeing a bunch of independent ssd’s on a table just reminded me of my old workflow and finding a photo on offline drive was a bit cumbersome. My photos are primarily stored in one location on a centralized 150 TB server using a RAID 6 configuration then images are transferred offsite to another Synology I have at my parents house as an affordable cloud solution. I can search through 2m photos and download a photo from 2006 using my browser on my phone if needed. Working projects are on my editing PC where I have nvme drives but are instantly backed up to the server through Synology Drive application with up to 32 versions per image. So should one get messed up or corrupt I just roll it back. Of course when traveling these portable drives are still king though!

@@MarkWebbPhotography whilst a sever who be great for everything, photo archives are a lot smaller than video ones. 150tb wouldn’t come close to being big enough. Obviously that pile of SSDs was for a shot.

@@philipbloom yeah those video projects seem to be 10x bigger than my photo ones so I imagine storing everything is quite a challenge. The servers are definitely useful for team sharing if you need to send things remotely to another person or send things back home if you have good internet. Fiber has been a game changer here and I can send about 100 GB/hour to my remote backup.

That’s only useful if you edit in one single location. My system works perfectly thanks.

I’ve been using the x6 ones solidly for two years and not a hiccup.

If they are given occational power, it is not a problem. It is when you just have them on a shelf that it was a problem, like you useing them also as a backup.@@philipbloom

@@steveschnetzler5471 I don’t use them as backups. They are active drives constantly.

OK so the 4TB X9 Pro is just over £200 on Amazon. You are looking at the X10 Pro which I can’t use the speeds for as stated in the video. I have an 8Tb EVO and enclosure and it’s great for my very big projects but the speed is half that of the X9 pro. amzn.to/3PvPFe2

@@philipbloom at 4:43 in your video you see a screen cap of you transferring 45 GB of data, the Mac estimates 3 minutes (those things are never super accurate but let's say it is) that means a transfer speed of 0.25GB per second. Windows has super fast disk caching which can boost transfer speeds to 1GB/s for a few seconds but it will then settle to normal, not sure about MacOS. An Evo will hold 400MB/s on a large file from another SSD. crystaldiskmark tests might show one thing but the reality is probably something else. Not sure this X9, other than having some advantage in being small and a single unit, has much speed advantage over the other way.

Because I love these. They are cheap, big enough for 95% of my hard drives and tiny. Why would they need repairing and more than an M.2 drive? This works very well for me. Thanks!

You are correct in what you are saying. But remember, he also mentions cheap. Getting the WD SN850X with enclosure is bringing you to almost $100 more. Of course, for me, I would buy your faster spedsbut you would be surprised as to how saving $100 means a lot to people.

@@sun-eye I bough an m.2 enclosure for €15. It's MUCH cheaper. A 4TB m.2 costs €170. 4TB Crucial X10 costs €380

@@sun-eye The SSD you listed is a Gen4 SSD. It's way overkill with 7 gigabytes/s read/write as even with Thunderbolt you get a max of 40 Gbps, most USB-C ports max out at 10 Gbps. So a cheaper SSD with 4 Gigabytes/s will still be same or better than the X10 from cruicial, while being overall cheaper AND upgradable.

@@Teh-Penguin Got it. That makes perfect sense if it is that much cheaper. I learn something new everyday. Let me ask you another question, doesn't USB 3.2 goes faster with the right cable? Also, where can you get a 4gb m2 that cheap? I got the WD SN850X and it was $300.

@@sun-eye it definitely depends on where you live. But in the EU a Crucial P3 4TB SSD goes for about €170. Try to look for SSDs that are older/slower - Gen3 SSDs will still be faster than any USB connection. Only SATA speeds will be slower than a fast USB connection, but still pretty good at about 600mb/s. Regarding USB: 3.2 Gen 2x2(I hate how they name it), tops out at about 20 Gbps. So 1/2 of Thunderbolt 4. And yes, you need a good cable for that. Also: if you want more than 10Gbps(~1GB/s), you need to look closely to what enclosure you buy. Most of them are just 10Gbps.

Actually, these are perfect for me as I explained in the video. Thanks.

I don’t work on four projects at the same time. Only one at a time. I plug in the two back up drives once I’ve finished working for the day and carbon copy cloned does it’s thing normally starting around 1am.

That was a VERY small project!!

I still revisit that hilarious unboxing experience from time to time. @@philipbloom

Are they thunderbolt 4 to get that speed Michael?

@@philipbloom Yeah I beleive so. In the FAQ's it says that they are "Thunder Bolt 3/4 are fully compatible with the Space Shuttle SSD"

@@MichaelWestcottFilms how much is it?

@@philipbloom it’s not cheap buying outside the US. It’s selling for $449 at the moment but then you gotta add import fees 😅 I think it’s worth it considering what you get though.

Wow. An AI comment! How ironic!

I expect it's just pre-formatted!

Same here, they had a cyber monday price and then on check out it jumped back up to full price! Maybe it's an Australian thing??

Looks like you missed a key reason why I need these. I already have a large NAS set up. Useless for long term archiving and editing on the go.

I hadn't realised you had a NAS setup already, must have missed that in the video. I was just wondering how you stored all of your long term footage, if you have a NAS that answers the question! You can get NAS now with 10GB connections too for local work which makes editing locally a reality as opposed to 1GB @@philipbloom

@@20centurymodern oh but I don’t store my long term footage on a NAS. They are on those separate drives. My NAS has all my master edits. Current edit projects. Photos catalogues (also back up separately)

It's always interesting hearing how other people work and their workflow. The amount of data being pushed out these days is immense and storing them safely is paramount. Do you have a video showing your NAS workflow setup?@@philipbloom

@@20centurymodern afraid not. I don’t make many videos!

It’s a different use to what I need.

Yes they are good but they didn’t sponsor my video did they? 🙂 Also I would check your facts for the last bit. X9 pro definitely cheaper than the Samsung T7 rugged.

@@philipbloom lol true 😆 my mistake I was looking at the X10 but the X9 is definitely cheaper. Wish I'd had one for some on site editing jobs last year, client provided some 5400rpm 4TB external drives for backup and waiting for the backups to copy felt like it was shaving years off my life.

Not really. I have a big NAS set up in my office with 10 bays of 10tb drives but that’s locked in the office. Great when editing in there but I have that problem that they are no good when I am away from home as a I say in the video. The cheap hard drive back ups don’t clog up my NAS drives. I don’t need quick access to the old projects once they are done generally.

yeh your more mobile, im always not so much. well it looks like a great product, ill check it out. thank you!@@philipbloom

I can’t just buy things to review. I was already using Crucial x6 drives when they approached me.