This is one of many reasons why I like EC channel content so much. All data/infos/details perfectly packed in excellent produced video. Now I can go straight to buy one of this. And if I need something constantly, that is definitely additional storage. Hello Chris! 👋🏻 Excellent video! 👌🏻

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Elvira! :) We can never have enough storage. :) Yet not that many years ago my total data store would not have exceeded 500GB.

@rjinnh3933

4 жыл бұрын

As usual, a great professionally produced vid with valuable info. EC is the Gold Standard of YT tech vids!

@elviraeloramilosic9813

4 жыл бұрын

@RJinNH Indeed.

@elviraeloramilosic9813

4 жыл бұрын

@ExplainingComputers Indeed. Now we count in in hundreds of TBs. Uh. Stacks and piles of storage. All kinds of storage types.

@michaelrebar8922

4 жыл бұрын

Appreciate this review. Bought several of these 2 TB SSDs about 2 months ago for 3:2:1 backup for my Hackintosh. Chris, how do you like DaVinci Resolve?

Another good real time review of a new device. Always a pleasure watching your videos.

Computer user in 2025: How did they ever manage with only 500 gigabyte drives? Computer user in 1985: What's a 'gigabyte'?

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

:)

@musicalneptunian

4 жыл бұрын

In the early 90's in my final year of the high school the whole HDD drive in the computer was 40 MB. Yep, MB.

@benboyer2261

4 жыл бұрын

Computer user in 1955 : What's a byte? Computer user before 1936 : What's a computer?

@erygoodguy

4 жыл бұрын

I remembered back at 1999, I'm using 3.5 floppy disk as my backup. It's only 1.4 mb.

@Ziggurat1

4 жыл бұрын

@@benboyer2261 The word computer was used as far back as at least the 1640s, it was a person who would compute your taxes. It comes from the 1300s word computist, which meant a person whom computed calendars. So I'd rather say: Computers before 1936: Who is Byte?

Thank you for another video showing how far SSD drives have come in such a short time.

Thank you for the SanDisk review and thank you for your reply last week with encouraging opinions on the future of 32-bit Raspbian.

Thanks for an excellent review of SanDisk Extreme PRO Portable SSD. Your reviews do an excellent job of explaining the pros and cons of the device (or software), which in turn, provide your audience with sound purchasing advice. Keep up the good work.

Do I need this product... No.... Do I watch the whole video... Yes. Thanks for the video :)

@tonyelsom6382

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed..👍

Perfect video for comparing to other options. I think other manufacturers should send you their products so you can show us how well they work.

I like that they go so far as to give you both types of USB cables.

Sir, I love your gentle and honest reviews. Especially, you say d you don't do paid review. From India. Your Fan

Cant be de first! KZread’s notification lag guilt. Congrats Chris. Please make a review of Nextcloud performance under different SBCs. Thank you so much for such an interesting channel you’ve got!

always the most concise reviews

It is just amazing to see the development of storage. My first drive was a Microscience 20 Meg half hight at the low price of AUD 850 and I thought I would never fill it up. Back in the 1980's

Love your work Chris and that is some awesome piece of kit

Nice little ssd professor Christopher thanks for sharing the experience with us

i would love to have one of these at some point but I love Explaining Computers so much

Another top notch video Christopher, concise and to the point.

While all phone and laptop reviews seem boring to me, this man can make an SSD review interesting!

just what i needed thanks for uploading :D

Impressive drive! Looking forward to your next video!

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Perry. Next week, the new LattePanda Delta . . .

I bought this drive today but not the pro; the same contents are in the Extreme Portable 500GB SSD as the Pro, fyi. Thank you for the links to speed test and the walkthrough of transfering files, that really helped me.

@ExplainingComputers

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

Always great informative videos .great work.much love xo.

i bought one last year on black friday sales, very pleased with it, hoping they do it again in 2 weeks time.

Stanley the knife showed up on his day off.

@MarkTheMorose

4 жыл бұрын

Double time on Sundays...

@musicalneptunian

4 жыл бұрын

Stanley feels underappreciated. He feels cut to the core. He wonders why he is ignored for the sharp end of his existence. He is even tempted to hand himself into a Home Depot hardware store as a bargain basement item for sale.

@pulesjet

4 жыл бұрын

Stanley must have botched something up. Looking for Kudos from the boss.

@TheTwick

4 жыл бұрын

Stanley is related to Mack the Knife?

@taidee

4 жыл бұрын

I love Stanley the knife 🤓

You make very good videos buddy.Keepon the good work.

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Late afternoon relaxing and educational entertainment once more. My humble Appreciation!

Thanks for the update, information extremely useful

Thanks teacher! For more one state of art explanation!

Thanks for another great video Chris.

Thanks Chris for another great video:)

Hi Chris. Great video. I would opt for the extra speed as long as it didn't shorten the life expectancy of the data and/or the drive. I was a little disappointed to not see the speed comparison that you did with the 1,2,4 level of transistors ( sorry but I'm feeling a bit under the weather ) that you did a few weeks ago where you illustrated the difference between life expectancy, drive life and speed that you did so well on an earlier installment. Overall, still very good. Stay well. Cheers.

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Greetings Thomas. I hope that you are doing OK.

I have been using an NVME drive in a housing for some time now... the blistering speed astonishes me to this day, even after a year of using it.

Thumbs up! Great video, Chris!

Yet one more dose of Informative Brain Food. Thank You Sir. Coffee and Beer Spill Survivable is always a plus . Dang a actual decent , practical form factor is cool too.

Interesting product. I do not own one, but while between builds on my main system, I used a Riitop enclosure with USB 3.1 Type C support for my Corsair MP510 NVMe drive and got similar speeds. Since my new MB arrived, the Corsair is now installed directly to it, and the enclosure is empty.

Excellent review.

Great real world review 👍.

I love your videos so much..so detailed

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Thank you for the "thorough" review.

Morning Chris!! Good video.

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Good morning Kirk. :)

Great video as always, but as a general rule, I would avoid the use of encryption software that required me to accept a license agreement and didn't have community-reviewable and modifiable source code.

@twmbarlwmstar

4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't freely available source code... no it wouldn't, I just thought it through. I agree with you.

@iflnr978

4 жыл бұрын

good point, I wasn't thinking about the license, I was thinking about the open source code and he said encryption wasn't taking place on the computer, which worried me even more. I wonder if his files are going to a remote server for encryption and decryption? does this introduce an unnecessary point of encryption failure and interception bypassing the opportunity for end to end encryption? Chris also said he'll probably continue to use veracrypt because it works on linux as well. maybe he'll do a video about encryption. I am also interested in ZFS encryption but I am attempting to install Ubuntu Touch on my phone and SynchThing, which I doubt support ZFS encryption

Excellent review

Thanks for the video.

Loving the videos. More please , you’ve turned me in to EC junkie!

@ExplainingComputers

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! :)

Need to test this transferring from phone to drive. This would be handy to transfer video files to.

Nice one Chris, I had no idea that SanDisk were owned by Western Digital, I havent used WD drives in any builds since 2001, nor recommended them to other users, thankfully the only SanDisks cards now in operation are in a tablet and phone (I shall not buy SanDisk again) last one I bought was a kingston.

Thanks for the video! Any thoughts on the USB3.2 version of this?

I see all kinds of interesting software on your desktop that needs demo'ing. :)

Ty...great information!

I still remember my first work PC (an IBM XT) back in the late 80's that required entering the cylinders, sectors and heads into the BIOS to get it to be usable on the 10MB 5.25" hard disk that took up two bays in height. Then you had to format it correctly too. Fun times, with no autodetection. We'll soon have petabyte drives, especially with the advent of 8k video.

@Okurka.

4 жыл бұрын

Those specs in the late 80's? Did you work for the government?

I would love to see you inspect some nice tape drives greater than LTO-3 and compare them in terms of durability as well as the overall quality/longevity vs price factor when it comes to alternatives like the SSDs or HDDs because from what i can tell nothing comes close to the current tape drive tech.

Great review. Need for speed. Backup can take lots of time.

Does anyone else thumbs-up EC videos before they watch them?

@alanzhou6334

4 жыл бұрын

Yep. Always.

@HoundDogMech

4 жыл бұрын

@@alanzhou6334 Never usually don't even then that's anyones videos.

@SBCBears

4 жыл бұрын

Why wait?

@BrucesWorldofStuff

4 жыл бұрын

I Do Always... :D

@Paul-hy6rp

4 жыл бұрын

SO DO I, NEVER SEEN A BAD VIDEO YET.

would be nice to know power consumption of these external nvme and ssd drives, to know what would be more efficient with SBC:s and laptop battery life

I wanted to know if the sandisk secure software could work directly with ms office products to save encrypted files? And another question, how easy would it be to unsecure those files for sharing with other people?

Excellent Drives, I myself Have the non Pro (500 Mbps) version, and use it to bring my games over to my friends for LAN party's so no one has to hog all the bandwidth downloading the games we want to play that they may not have . I will say that it IS very Durable, its been dropped and rained on, I actually have it on a key ring. Excellent Video, you always explain products very well!. Have you done a video on "Ram Drives" Yet? if not I think that would be a very nice topic if you have the time. Thank you!

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience of the SanDisk Extreme -- I'm not surprised that it has stood up well in use. It is always hard to get the feel of a product across in video. I've yet to do a RAM Drives video, but it is a great idea for a show. Noted. :)

Nice review Chris....I got interested in the 1Tb drives...... one question: what software do you use to edit your videos?

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Still mainly Premiere Pro, but with a shift toward DaVinci Resolve.

A nice multi boot (W10/Linux) + portable apps utilities video with Yumi or similar and one of these SSD's would be appreciated Chris.:-)

For on-location backup looks great.

Can you please suggest best external ssd which is most durable and lasts for longer period?

I like Sandisk, never had a problem with their products

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I use SanDisk cards in all my SBCs and cameras.

@mbirth

4 жыл бұрын

I had 2 or 3 of their Ultra Fit USB drives burn out on me. They get extremely hot when in use and one got slower and slower over time (until it got to a few Kilobytes/second); the other ones turned read-only. SanDisk replaced them with the larger Ultra Flair models which also get hot, but due to their larger size, I was able to add a small passive cooler to them and that helps a lot.

@josephcontreras8930

4 жыл бұрын

Say how can I recover data from a 32 gig flashdrive that my laptop doesn't recognize? Is there an app on play store that actually works to get data off the drive or program then I'll smash the drive with a hammer and recycle whatever is left cause this will be the third time I've lost info on it for I had to reformatt it and lost my previous data. It's an emtec flashdrive.

Great job, dude! Best video review... Connect Android yes or not ( smartphone or tablet ) OTG transfer USB type C ?!

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

I have successfully connected this to an Android tablet (with a micro USB 3.0 connector), but other have reported problems with Android devices here.

Great review! I love WD products. They've always made great hard drives. It's nice for them to have Sandisk for their SSD line! Sandisk is a trusted name for all your storage needs!

@Okurka.

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, Sandisk cards are notorious for failing.

Why not try some SSD enclosures? I bought two different types, an M.2 format and a 2.5 inch format after I upgraded the two drives in my laptop. The great thing about them is that they can breathe new life into old drives.

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

This is a great idea for a future video. Noted. :)

@alanzhou6334

4 жыл бұрын

Even if you get the absolutely best enclosure, the speed will still be limited by both the type of usb and the sATA to serial converter IC.

@LDWilliams

4 жыл бұрын

@@alanzhou6334 I wasn't suggesting this for speed but as a feature, so that people could then make use of drives that they might have left over after an upgrade, as I did when I upgraded the 128GB SSD M.2 and the 1TB HDD that were originally in my laptop. They are now both in enclosures and can be used say if I want to swap out my boot drive in the future. But I really did it so that they weren't just sitting there not being used. The cost is minimal and means the drives can easily be used.

@HoundDogMech

4 жыл бұрын

@@LDWilliams I did he same thing with the drives from an old Toshiba Laptop that crapped out in the middle of a 3 month long video edit. and again when the Idiot Geek Squad wiped my drives after replacing an HDMI port that went bad under warranty. in fact these drives are in my Laptop bag still ... thanks for reminding me.

@LDWilliams

4 жыл бұрын

@@HoundDogMech cool

I love this man

Several months ago, I bought a NVME 1TB drive and put it in an external case from Amazon. I paid like $100 for the drive and like $20 for the case. It had both USB C and USB 3 cables in the box. It is by far the fastest external drive I have used to date. It gets hot when coping a lot of data to it but I didn't notice a slow down or anything. Well worth the $130 or so I have in it.

I wonder whether the speeds on the test rig were limited by the USB card connection to the system in some way. How many PCIe lanes, the speed, whether they go through the chipset or direct to the CPU, etc.

I'm guess the difference between the synthetic test and real world test is that there will be a small amount of very fast SLC on the drive and the benchmark could be hitting that? It also appears that the USB to NVMe chip is only using 2 PCIe lanes - to go faster you'd need Thunderbolt 3 and it's direct 4 PCIe lanes

I am out early looking for your video of the week. Lol. B4 church and errands. Can u advise what size screws mount M.2s? (Standard size and length?). Also for mounting rockpro64 to its clear base size and length. I need to buy package of various size screws some where. I'm making mahogany and deep red cedar wood computer boxes. Oh yeah, spacers of different kinds and sizes. Alibaba?

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Alton. This week's video posts in 35 minutes (times move around with daylight saving changes around the globe this time of year). And I think you will be very interested in this particular video. :) Google tells me M.2 screws are 2.0 x 3mm. I've never purchased any!

I'd be afraid of the rubber coating getting sticky after a few years and coming off.

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

I am hoping it is silcon and not the soft-touch plastic coating that does indeed degenerate as you note.

@kataseiko

4 жыл бұрын

@Mai Mariarti Rubbing alcohol will do that with much less of a health risk.

@TheBodgybrothers

4 жыл бұрын

@@tylerufen not sure what you are on about, happened to me from a device only a year old. Had to rub that shit off.

@fixman88

4 жыл бұрын

@@tylerufen I've had four radios I own exhibit 'Sticky Case Disease', and they were all post 2008. One eton radio I had that was red had it so badly the color would come off on my hands and it looked like dried blood.

@fixman88

4 жыл бұрын

@@tylerufen I used to collect small radios (a bunch were the ones with hand crank generators); a few had the soft-touch outside that turned sticky.

EC, you mentioned in one of the previous Video’s, that SSDs needs once and while power to keep the data. Any idea, how often that is that the case to keep your data safe.

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

To be really safe, an SSD should be refreshed at least once a year.

Chris, do you use this drive with multiple OS's or one, e.g. Linux? If Linux my second question is do you format in a Linux file system or leave the drive formatted with exFAT? Thanks.

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

The drive is exFAT, and read by many different OS, including Windows 7, Windows 10, various Linux distros, and currently also NomadBSD.

Great video. That's a nice storage device. Great to have USB 3.1. I hope SBC's will quickly support it. I'm waiting on news of new SBC's with newer SOC's. I just ordered a new ssd and a sandisk extreme 128GB sd card. The ssd is 24euro and 240GB. And 30euro for 128GB sd card, should have read speed up to 160MB/s. Incredible how quickly the prices have dropped. I still need to receive them to test that everything is what is told. I do trust the seller. Also got the Samsung Bar Plus that I reviewed. Good read speed, slow write speed. I also have the NVIDIA Jetson Nano on the way. I really wanted to review it, but it's too expensive to buy just for review. I've now gotten it from a Belgian seller(Antratek). I'm extremely happy. Hard to get contact with NVIDIA for me. Tomorrow it'll arrive. I'll now record a video about zram and swap files, how to create and use them. Thank you for the great info. First time I see USB 3.1 in action. Benchmarks indeed are rarely real life performance. Greetings

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Nico. :)

6:44 "I have now connected the Samsung PRO to my test rig" when you like so much Samsung :D

@sucof977

4 жыл бұрын

7:32 he said it again :D

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

I indeed made a mistake there. :(

@LiLBitsDK

4 жыл бұрын

@@ExplainingComputers it's only human to make mistakes :D and Samsung is awesome too :D

@sucof977

4 жыл бұрын

​@@ExplainingComputers We all would probably make the same mistake. I too use a lot of Samsung products so it is a hard habit to break. Nevertheless, amazing video as always :)

@joseanderson-cuff6491

4 жыл бұрын

I can forgive 'Chris' for this blunder...as we are all humans...I just wonder if Western Digital will. Mmmmmmmhhhh.

`Nice too know it is there in case i need one in the future.

at 7:31 it's curious that the 4KiB Q32T1 result (third one down) came out twice as fast on the slower USB interface.

@zedg7473

4 жыл бұрын

He used a pcie adaptor so that could lead to increased latency depending on many factors like the cpu lanes or bus banwith.

I think Stanley the knife should get an episode of his own!

Love your show. Why you could not copy data from the ram drive faster makes me curious. Is it the CPU, the bus, windows copy software? I wonder if you copied from the ssd to a new folder on the ssd how fast that would be?

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

I too am curious! :)

Bit concerned about not checking what the partition format is. I had some different results with sandisk using different partition formats on USB sticks. Is that worth checking on an external SSD?

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

The drive comes formatted exFAT, which is what I tested it with here. As you say, different file formats will give different results, as will different operating systems.

This is great! I will buy one to replace a 500gb drive I use with my sony Blu-Ray player. I have over 300 movies and television series on a seagate 500gb drive. Even though the player is only usb 2.0 it will still work and the speed of the access of the drive will be awesome. PS - I have made an image of the drive using Clonezilla. This will be fun! Thanks Chris.

@Okurka.

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/e3Z8lsmYpcSbldY.html

@5argetech56

4 жыл бұрын

@@Okurka. these are DVD disc backups Mister head of a penis🖕🖕🖕🤡💩

Great video as always. Last time I used a RAM disk was on my Archimedes in the 90s. How do you do this on Windows?

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

You need to use a third party utility. Here I used the SoftPerfect RAM Disk.

@MiniRockerz4ever

4 жыл бұрын

via software, very easy

I have problem with it when setting up Secure Access because I clicked on "check update" it goes straight to password.. while I haven't set up one yet. How can I go back to beginning? 😕

I really enjoy the way you explain computer hardware. Can You please make a video about MINI PCs like ACEPC AK2 Mini PC Intel Celeron J3455. Thanks in advance for your help. Muchas gracias por su ayuda

At about $130 (500GB) Canadian it’s not that expensive for what it offers. I have always had good luck with this manufacturer. I use there Hi capacity SD cards in all of my Raspberry Pi’s and Cameras. Great review.

I put a cheap 500gb sata disk in a USB enclosure. Works good enough but can be slow at times. Then my computer has USB 3.0. There are good reasons this might be better for professional use, especially multimedia/ video. Interesting and useful video review.

Apart from the speed, can the additional features of NVMe over SATA such as the number of queues actually be taken advantage of over USB? How does this work? Is the original protocol tunneled over USB or is there a separate storage-over-USB protocol?

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

It will depend on the USB interface used. USB 3.1 (and 3.2) perform far better than USB 3.0 with higher numbers of queues. But I suspect that the major benefit using an NVMe drive via any form of USB interface will be speed.

@unvergebeneid

4 жыл бұрын

@@ExplainingComputers Interesting, thanks!

Chris can you check if any of the S.M.A.R.T tools work with this drive? My main gripe with external SSD are that since they usually work using UASP common disk monitoring tools fail to detect its temperature, lifetime etc. I use smartmontools on Linux with -d sat option to get number of cycles information on external USB SSDs and use it to approximately calculate the life left out of the drive. It is essential to know the lifetime of a SSD as they don't last long and with larger capacity drives it makes more sense that we have the ability to monitor the lifetime of these external SSDs.

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

SMART tools will not run across USB. :(

2:25 The most satisfying "aha" I've ever heard, I am dead hahahahahahahahaha

I watched all your single board computers videos, & that's really amazing,! & I want to know which one is best single board computer under 10000 INR FOR my project!

I was looking at these two ext drives (SanDisk SATA and Pro) a month or so ago. at that time in the US, Amazon was only selling the NON pro SATA version and new egg was only selling the Pro version, for a higher price. neither site mentioned the existence of the other model and I wondered how many people didn't notice the difference or ordered the wrong model. I was considering making a multi drive home server using these but I became concerned with the possibility of thermal throttling so I found out amazon sells m.2 cases with integrated heat synchs which accept m.2 NVMe drives. I doubt they work as well in a dusty or wet environment but that would be a trade I personally would be willing to make as I am more desktop and large file oriented oriented. although I have become aware of the micro USB dust plugs which I'd probably loose immediately, but you can buy a bunch of them for a low cost. unlike the spinning drives which can use an additional AC electrical power connection for the more robust desktop version (as opposed to the laptop version), there is apparently no need and no way to supply additional power for the m.2 NVMe SSDs, used externally in a desktop environment setting.

"Don't turn it on, take it apart!"........... oh.... no screws. Is the case completely glued or clipped?

How does the encryption software affect the speed of the unit? And I suppose that you can only encrypt a 'finished' file, not one that is currently being created by an application?

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

This I have not tested -- although there was no noticable speed drop (although there has to be some). I am sure you are right, the approach here seems to be encrypt closed files, as encryption appears to be at the file level, as opposed to in (say) VeraCrypt, where a volume is encrypted, and open files can be used.

I have a bunch of old SATA hard drives I use for backup. But I’m not worried about speed.

Great Video,what software do you use for RAM Disk please?

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

Here the one from SoftPerfect: www.softperfect.com/products/ramdisk/

@popsmikehull

4 жыл бұрын

@@ExplainingComputers Great thanks Chris!!

can we use the ssd on an ipad pro and also on a computer under windows, then I transfer files to the ssd of my ipad and read them on my computer under w10 for example, is there compatibility issues? thank you for your reply. Axelle

@ExplainingComputers

4 жыл бұрын

This should work, providing that the drive is formatted as exFAT, which should be readable on both systems.

let's go and take ... a closer look

Hmm, I use Samsung SSD in a $8 USB case and get similar throughput speeds. Still, I like the smallish size, so will likely buy one! Thanks for the excellent review!

If I'd like to access files from my SSD on someone else's PC/Mac, I'd have to install the software on that computer too?

He’s using it for his hit productions!

2:25 Worst Alan Partridge impression ever, good video though 😁

@albanosilva378

4 жыл бұрын

Knowing me knowing you....