Hey! I just posted a new video with 27 External SSDs specifically for GAMING here: th-cam.com/video/oJwFFH9RAL8/w-d-xo.html I'm working on a full update video to this one, but that will take a little bit longer still. Stay tuned!
Thank you. If you can also please include your opinion on buying a cheaper internal SSD and then buying an exclosure for it, that would be very helpful as well.
I have to disagree with that, she definitely did not cover everything here, especially important things about the SSD types of Multi-Layer SSDs: SLC, MLC, TLC, QLC, and PLC.
It may disappoint you, but it is not. There are several more TB3 SSD drives on the market that other YT channels have tested before. This video also does not cover the different sizes of caches built into the different drives. This and the kind of chip technology that is used make the important differences in performance.
This is probably one of the best, most informative tech videos I've ever seen. Everything was really well done and easy to understand/digest. Great work! 👍
This isn't normally the type of channel I would subscribe to... but the absolutely ridiculous amount of work you put into this video, coupled with the easy-to-follow breakdown of all the different specs made clicking the subscribe and bell icon super easy! PS Thank you for highlighting the different bars of the graph as you were talking about them, made following the video much easier.
Nicely done. Have both the Crucial X8, 1 TB and the Samsung T5, 500 MB both work well. I use the Crucial for Time Machine and the T5 to clone my iMac. Speaking of heat, I bought ADATA’s latest se800 and within 2 weeks locked up solid and no longer recognized by my Mac. Back it went...
Best review for external ssds since you cover a lot of them in just one video. Very detailed and awesome edition, love your videos. Thunderbolt speeds attracts but it's important to have USB C 3.2 compatibility along with the Thunderbolt 3, so you can use in other devices.
Very thorough test results and exactly what I was looking for. Would love to see a similar take on other tech products since your presentation is really good!
Absolutely fantastic comparison video. Literally couldn’t be better. The only thing I wished it included was the current updated Samsung T7, and the Western Digital Black SSD. Writing this comment in July 2021. Thanks!
My absolute favourite is the Samsung T5. Very small, lightweight and discreet. It is very useful also when travelling. It is expensive, I agree, but worth any penny.
After watched bunch of reviews for the Sandisk Extreme and Extreme PRO, I still in doubt. But after I have watched yours, I feel like, I'll go for Extreme PRO without any hesitation. Thanks a lot for your great work. :)
Just purchased the Crucial X8 2tb at a bargain of £189 from Amazon. It is far cheaper than it's competitors. I will be using it with my PS5. Great video. Thanks.
last week I bought this Samsung T5 1TB SSD for €99,- on the Black Friday sale. 3 years earlier I already had bought the blue T5 500GB. Those have almost 8000 hours on the counter. And work perfect 100% error free Smart test. Incredibly reliable.
I bought the Samsung T7 2TB a couple weeks ago. It would disconnect and stop every few minutes. It was very frustrating. It did this on a couple of my computers. I just returned it.
I was looking to buy an external SSD and saw your excellent review - seems to me you have covered everything! This is the Best Review of anything I have seen ever! Thank you!
Hi, dank je voor je review. Ik keek het al vorige maand en heb n.a.v. jouw video de Sandisc Extreme Portable 1Tb gekocht om aan mijn USB-c port van mijn Mac Mini te koppelen. Ik werk veel met premiere pro en wilde een andere schijf dan de interne SSD om mee te werken. De performance is beter dan de interne SSD met Premiere Pro. Ook met andere Adobe pakketten. Dank je voor deze video dus! Blij mee!
that was one of the most awesome SSD reviews I have seen,,, and i am on a binge watching reviews right now,,,, ,WOW thank you so much for your clarity, editing, detailed and most of all your realistic view point. (will use your link to purchase)
Thank you for this video! I don't know or understand the different terms they use, such as SATA, NVME, V-NAND, etc. I love how you helped out by ranking them based on who would use them and for what purpose.
Same here. Last time I worked on a PC, SATA and SCSI was the norm; that was 15 years ago. Needless to say, I'm not familiar on NVME, and V-NAND at all.
I recently got the Sandisk extreme. It's on sell for $89 in the US right now, and with gift card and a courtesy credit on my amazon account, I got it for $30.
Thank you. I decided to get the samsung 2TB T7 as I got it at a price that was too tempting, and my laptop has gen 2 USB C so I'll get the rated 1000 mb/s speeds. That's plenty fast for extra game storage :)
@@explorator8973 ROFL this guy is just spamming youtube with his amazon affiliate link to get a cut. It's the standard bottom of the line, crap 5400RPM seagate portable hard drive. 2TB. Don't click the link.
Great video came hear because of Amazon Black Friday early deals. Crucial and Sandisk extreme pro both at 1050mb/s 1tb are £96 and £150 respectively. Easy win for the crucial although I’ve wanted the sandisk for the aesthetics and ruggedness for the longest time lol. Now I can transfer and play my PS4 games on my ps5
Mechanical usb drives: my mind goes beyond logic and imagined a usb pendrive that has spiny platers instead of hdd that i have on my desk... Bruh... I need sleep
I just got the Sandisk Extreme 500GB for my Xbox One X. I've changed the setting to not turn off the hard drive. I've done hard reset. I've also reset the console with retaining games. I still can 't get it to recognize the drive. I also reformatted it to NTFS. When I plug it into my PC it gets detected. Did you have to do anything special to get your's to work?
I really appreciate your detailed explanations of all these products. So much more informative than watching several videos comparing two or three. Thank you!
Should’ve had the x6 crucial in there Otherwise great job love the fact you actually bought and tested them unlike a lot of other content creators that just look at them online. Good job (:
Wow cool video, so much information, nice one :) Which is the best SSD to work directly from for photography? For example, storing Adobe Lightroom catalogues and editing / saving / sharing direct from the drive? I'm looking for a 1TB / 2TB external drive that is portable between home and university and is compatible with my Windows 10 and University iMacs and my first impression is the Sandisk Pro or the Samsung T5. Thanks if you can point me in the right direction:) Oh, cool mouse bty:)
This was an absolutely brilliant video with an enormous amount of { Incredibly Important Information }, that has helped me tremendously, Thank you so much
Wow, thank you for such a well put review. Are these ssd limited in speed depending on source of the data, ie hdd to these external ssd if using thunderbolt 3
Before price was an issue. But now looking at all these stats will probably change me against (not totally) WD of which I have 6 going from 500 GB to 4 TB. Great vid...where have you been all my computing life? Good info, Good video, and Good eye candy. .;)
I like the security features of the Samsung T7, but what if the finger sensor has scratch on it? Can you still still open your files? I like the IP 55 on the SanDisk Extreme Pro! You really cover everything! That is why I love this Channel! Great Job! #External #SSD #BuyGuide
Another contributing factor leaning towards SSD - unlike traditional HD, there is no need to do de-fragmentation on SSD. In fact, I believe de-frag is not recommended for SSD!! There is another usage for storage that also tilt advantage to SSD. If you are a researcher & have tons of research data (GB) for many different types and topics (e.g. biotech), having a portable high speed SSD is an invaluable asset when you have to attend live meetings and pulling/searching data out from archive.
Whilst they probably will be thermal throttling, the significant slow down will be due to them running out of SLC (single layer cell) cache rather than the flash getting too hot. Whilst flash does work best at ~50°C, if it's getting that hot to touch then it may well be thermal throttling as well. I would expect the SSDs to be TLC (triple layer cell), where write speed is ~150-200 MB/s, so once the SLC cache gets full, it will then end up just writing direct to the TLC and as such slow down. The main performance factor will be how the drive (the controller on the drive) handles what happens when the cache gets full, and whether it keeps trying to clear it despite the TLC being occupied writing more data. Side note - the cooler an SSD is, the worse its life; the way the company knows how many write cycles to failure the SSD has is due to the phenomenon that by decreasing the temperature by ~10°C roughly halves the life of the flash. But unless you're using the SSD as a cache drive or constantly copying and moving videos across from it, chances are you won't need to worry about the life of an SSD as the capacity will probably end up stop being sensible to use before it dies - like the 32 GB SSDs that were released around the start of the "SSD age" My source for this is pcper / PC Perspective, which can be found on youtube and at pcper.com
Nice comparison,now thinking which is better for PS5 expansion just to put all my PS4 games i played, i was thinking to get T7 or the Crucial or WD. more power to your channel 😎
You should mention that SanDisk is Western Digital. It is just sold under that former name because of brand recognition. But it is in fact Western Digital. You mentioned Lacie being Seagate so you also need to mention SanDisk being Western Digital
@A-L: True (@ that Sandisk is Western-Digital, and that it's only sold under that former-name because of brand-recognition), but to be even-more accurate, Sandisk was bought by Western-Digital, and Lacie-Porsche [division [of Porsche]] was bought by Seagate :-(
Hey! I just posted a new video with 27 External SSDs specifically for GAMING here: th-cam.com/video/oJwFFH9RAL8/w-d-xo.html
I'm working on a full update video to this one, but that will take a little bit longer still. Stay tuned!
Thank you. If you can also please include your opinion on buying a cheaper internal SSD and then buying an exclosure for it, that would be very helpful as well.
This is not an external SSD buying guide, this is THE external SSD buying guide! you covered every freaking angle, keep up with the great work!
I have to disagree with that, she definitely did not cover everything here, especially important things about the SSD types of Multi-Layer SSDs: SLC, MLC, TLC, QLC, and PLC.
It may disappoint you, but it is not. There are several more TB3 SSD drives on the market that other YT channels have tested before. This video also does not cover the different sizes of caches built into the different drives. This and the kind of chip technology that is used make the important differences in performance.
@@explorator8973 that's an HDD, no thanks.
RAVPower is also missing out.
Agreed 👍
This is probably one of the best, most informative tech videos I've ever seen. Everything was really well done and easy to understand/digest. Great work! 👍
6:31 is the best part :D I love that it was not edited away
Very deep research on SSD , excellent video editing as well . Well done 👍
That's a lot of work to benchmark them all, nice video as always!
This was literally the most helpful video. THANK YOU SO SO MUCH. And I REALLY appreciate how you organized the video with benchmarks!!
This isn't normally the type of channel I would subscribe to... but the absolutely ridiculous amount of work you put into this video, coupled with the easy-to-follow breakdown of all the different specs made clicking the subscribe and bell icon super easy!
PS Thank you for highlighting the different bars of the graph as you were talking about them, made following the video much easier.
Nicely done. Have both the Crucial X8, 1 TB and the Samsung T5, 500 MB both work well. I use the Crucial for Time Machine and the T5 to clone my iMac. Speaking of heat, I bought ADATA’s latest se800 and within 2 weeks locked up solid and no longer recognized by my Mac. Back it went...
Best review for external ssds since you cover a lot of them in just one video. Very detailed and awesome edition, love your videos. Thunderbolt speeds attracts but it's important to have USB C 3.2 compatibility along with the Thunderbolt 3, so you can use in other devices.
Very thorough test results and exactly what I was looking for. Would love to see a similar take on other tech products since your presentation is really good!
Absolutely fantastic comparison video. Literally couldn’t be better. The only thing I wished it included was the current updated Samsung T7, and the Western Digital Black SSD. Writing this comment in July 2021. Thanks!
My absolute favourite is the Samsung T5. Very small, lightweight and discreet. It is very useful also when travelling. It is expensive, I agree, but worth any penny.
Just got a 1tb T7 for $109 and it’s amazing
After watched bunch of reviews for the Sandisk Extreme and Extreme PRO, I still in doubt.
But after I have watched yours, I feel like, I'll go for Extreme PRO without any hesitation.
Thanks a lot for your great work. :)
Happy to help!
One year on, this video still helps so much! Awesome!
Just purchased the Crucial X8 2tb at a bargain of £189 from Amazon. It is far cheaper than it's competitors. I will be using it with my PS5. Great video. Thanks.
Thankyou, finally an informative and straight to the point SSD review with benchmarks!
Wow I've never seen a video about ssd's with this much detail,I just subscribed,good video😎
i like the contrast between the plants and all the techie stuff ! :) love your video! i’ve subscribed! ❤️🌱
A woman’s touch…
Comprehensive review, encompasses all the questions I had to ask. Very professionally done.
last week I bought this Samsung T5 1TB SSD for €99,- on the Black Friday sale.
3 years earlier I already had bought the blue T5 500GB.
Those have almost 8000 hours on the counter. And work perfect 100% error free Smart test.
Incredibly reliable.
I bought the Samsung T7 2TB a couple weeks ago. It would disconnect and stop every few minutes. It was very frustrating. It did this on a couple of my computers. I just returned it.
Got the Sandisk and am happy. Probaly would be happy with them all. Like the Sandisk body a lot - especially the loop.
This is one of the best reviews of anything that I have ever seen. Subscribed.
Wow! Very detailed comparison! Thank you for the great effort in making this review. Greetings from New Zealand.
I was looking to buy an external SSD and saw your excellent review - seems to me you have covered everything! This is the Best Review of anything I have seen ever! Thank you!
A video is a good video when you don't need to look for other 100 videos to decide. Thanks!
I got a SanDisk Pro V2 for 100 Euros, and I am well happy with it. As a gamer, it's also good to have parts that are future-proof!
This video just gave you one more sub. Keep being so straight to the point and informative, and you'll go far ahead. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! 😁
Hi, dank je voor je review. Ik keek het al vorige maand en heb n.a.v. jouw video de Sandisc Extreme Portable 1Tb gekocht om aan mijn USB-c port van mijn Mac Mini te koppelen. Ik werk veel met premiere pro en wilde een andere schijf dan de interne SSD om mee te werken. De performance is beter dan de interne SSD met Premiere Pro. Ook met andere Adobe pakketten. Dank je voor deze video dus! Blij mee!
Your English is much better than last year girl. Awesome video.
that was one of the most awesome SSD reviews I have seen,,, and i am on a binge watching reviews right now,,,, ,WOW thank you so much for your clarity, editing, detailed and most of all your realistic view point. (will use your link to purchase)
Amazing Portable Hard disk from Seagate,it is pretty insane amzn.to/32DGyQJ
I dont get why people dont do more reviews on these. Great work!
Best SSD video! Now i know what to buy for my projects.
Ah thanks! Glad it helped you!
Very good video with the SSD comparative statistics. Subscribed!
Man, I love your videos. You know what you're talking about. Quality and detailed reviews. Keep it up!
Excellent comparisons!!! You covered everything I was looking for!
I'm waiting for the linius tech tips collab
#goals? 😛
Thank you for this video! I don't know or understand the different terms they use, such as SATA, NVME, V-NAND, etc. I love how you helped out by ranking them based on who would use them and for what purpose.
Same here. Last time I worked on a PC, SATA and SCSI was the norm; that was 15 years ago. Needless to say, I'm not familiar on NVME, and V-NAND at all.
I recently got the Sandisk extreme. It's on sell for $89 in the US right now, and with gift card and a courtesy credit on my amazon account, I got it for $30.
What a solid review!! Appreciate all the detail in your testing and simple presentation of it all! Love the plants too!
Thank you! :D
The best and complete review very rare among todays you-tubers. A big subscribe from my side
Great work. A quick introduction to the world of external ssd drives.
Thank you. I decided to get the samsung 2TB T7 as I got it at a price that was too tempting, and my laptop has gen 2 USB C so I'll get the rated 1000 mb/s speeds. That's plenty fast for extra game storage :)
@@explorator8973 ROFL this guy is just spamming youtube with his amazon affiliate link to get a cut. It's the standard bottom of the line, crap 5400RPM seagate portable hard drive. 2TB. Don't click the link.
@@teddym2808 You are correct, sorry for any inconvenience. Everyone is not rich like you. Anyway I've deleted it. Peace bro!
@@explorator8973 Rich? I'm on a pension you absolute tool
@@teddym2808 he is a fool in a man's shoes.
Great video came hear because of Amazon Black Friday early deals. Crucial and Sandisk extreme pro both at 1050mb/s 1tb are £96 and £150 respectively. Easy win for the crucial although I’ve wanted the sandisk for the aesthetics and ruggedness for the longest time lol. Now I can transfer and play my PS4 games on my ps5
Mechanical usb drives: my mind goes beyond logic and imagined a usb pendrive that has spiny platers instead of hdd that i have on my desk... Bruh... I need sleep
Mate this was awesome, super comprehensive guide for ssd 👏👏👏
Kinda of blown away at the extensive research here. You deserve way more subscribers!
i like your "thing" for the plants. Love it
This was a very thorough review, i have made my decision based on this review. Liked and new subscriber.
Thanks so much for this! Saavved me the trouble of having to go through multiple videos! Thankyou!
Amazing Portable Hard disk from Seagate,it is pretty insane amzn.to/32DGyQJ
made sure to buy the Sabrent via your link. nearly bought the x5 so really appreciate the savings. thanks
Happy to help! And using the links helps me! Thank you 👊
Incredibly thorough guide. Thanks for all the hard work. 🤗
HOPPAAAAA! GEWOON NEDERLANDS OOK NOG :P. Dank je voor de review dat gaat de Sandisk Extreme Pro worden dus
Graag gedaan ☺️
Straight forward explication, so much better than other channels,thank you
I like how you presented the drives in different tiers.
Happy to hear :D
I am using the Samsung T5 500GB SSD and it works great as an external drive for the Xbox One.
I just got the Sandisk Extreme 500GB for my Xbox One X. I've changed the setting to not turn off the hard drive. I've done hard reset. I've also reset the console with retaining games. I still can 't get it to recognize the drive. I also reformatted it to NTFS. When I plug it into my PC it gets detected. Did you have to do anything special to get your's to work?
I really appreciate your detailed explanations of all these products. So much more informative than watching several videos comparing two or three. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
This is perfect. I need an SSD to play my PC games on. Right in ⏰
This video is so so high quality in every sense....Keep the hard work and u will grow exponentialy
Much love, this is my favorite Tech channel.
Je bent Nederlands!???!?! Wow, je Engels accent is GEWELDIG, ik had het niet eens door!
I just live here ;)
She really knows a lot about external disks ✌️and I did not know all of this... 😳! Thank you my lady.
I love my gut! I just knew SanDisk Extreme Pro 2tb SSD was gonna be what I need - Now, let's buy it!
Thanks for an amazing overview video btw!
Happy to help!
Will be on the pricey side I am guessing
THANK YOU this is the best external hard drive review I’ve seen ❗️❗️
Thank you 😁
Wow! That was a very well done review Nada. Great work!
Looking to buy an external ssd and this is the best video on the subject great work 👍
Should’ve had the x6 crucial in there
Otherwise great job love the fact you actually bought and tested them unlike a lot of other content creators that just look at them online. Good job (:
Excelent video! Thank You for making it.
Wow cool video, so much information, nice one :) Which is the best SSD to work directly from for photography? For example, storing Adobe Lightroom catalogues and editing / saving / sharing direct from the drive? I'm looking for a 1TB / 2TB external drive that is portable between home and university and is compatible with my Windows 10 and University iMacs and my first impression is the Sandisk Pro or the Samsung T5. Thanks if you can point me in the right direction:) Oh, cool mouse bty:)
Excellent details and presentation. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, great video! I'm picking up the sandisk.
Perfect review for exactly what I was searching for! Thanks very much!
I have the sandisk extreme pro, the one thing it lacks is a power / flashing activity light when transferring files.
Watched a lot of reviews, looking to buy external hard drive. You are the best! 👍
Thanks a lot! 👍 👍 👍 🎇
Wonderful work, love this! thanks for sharing :)
Great video. Nice comparison and non biased
Just what I was looking for! Thank you.
Thanks for this very detailed and wonderfully presented video!
This was an absolutely brilliant video with an enormous amount of { Incredibly Important Information }, that has helped me tremendously, Thank you so much
Wow, thank you for such a well put review.
Are these ssd limited in speed depending on source of the data, ie hdd to these external ssd if using thunderbolt 3
Of course they can all be limited to the speed of the source/destination. If you copy from a hdd to a tb3 ssd, you will only see hdd speeds.
Thank you for this video I was searching for this.♥️
First time on your channel. WOW, that's a lot of work. New SUBS here!!!
Glad you appreciate it! Thank you, and welcome!
Great review! I am a new subscriber and I look forward to your future videos.
Welcome aboard!
Love this, very useful!
Before price was an issue. But now looking at all these stats will probably change me against (not totally) WD of which I have 6 going from 500 GB to 4 TB. Great vid...where have you been all my computing life? Good info, Good video, and Good eye candy. .;)
Outstanding video. Great job! I love the detailed information and graphs! I live for this! Thank you 🙏🏽!
Thank you / my pleasure 😁
I like the security features of the Samsung T7, but what if the finger sensor has scratch on it? Can you still still open your files? I like the IP 55 on the SanDisk Extreme Pro! You really cover everything! That is why I love this Channel! Great Job!
#External #SSD #BuyGuide
Awesome
Very happy with my Extreme Portable SSD. Good enough as my Camera backup
Amazing Portable Hard disk from Seagate,it is pretty insane amzn.to/32DGyQJ
Great Video! Your entire setup looks Amazing! 😍
Another contributing factor leaning towards SSD - unlike traditional HD, there is no need to do de-fragmentation on SSD. In fact, I believe de-frag is not recommended for SSD!!
There is another usage for storage that also tilt advantage to SSD. If you are a researcher & have tons of research data (GB) for many different types and topics (e.g. biotech), having a portable high speed SSD is an invaluable asset when you have to attend live meetings and pulling/searching data out from archive.
Thank you for doing this review, it really helped me decide on which drive to get.
Happy to help :D
Whilst they probably will be thermal throttling, the significant slow down will be due to them running out of SLC (single layer cell) cache rather than the flash getting too hot. Whilst flash does work best at ~50°C, if it's getting that hot to touch then it may well be thermal throttling as well. I would expect the SSDs to be TLC (triple layer cell), where write speed is ~150-200 MB/s, so once the SLC cache gets full, it will then end up just writing direct to the TLC and as such slow down. The main performance factor will be how the drive (the controller on the drive) handles what happens when the cache gets full, and whether it keeps trying to clear it despite the TLC being occupied writing more data.
Side note - the cooler an SSD is, the worse its life; the way the company knows how many write cycles to failure the SSD has is due to the phenomenon that by decreasing the temperature by ~10°C roughly halves the life of the flash.
But unless you're using the SSD as a cache drive or constantly copying and moving videos across from it, chances are you won't need to worry about the life of an SSD as the capacity will probably end up stop being sensible to use before it dies - like the 32 GB SSDs that were released around the start of the "SSD age"
My source for this is pcper / PC Perspective, which can be found on youtube and at pcper.com
Excellent video. I'm waiting until prices drop and they release bigger drives. So far it seems the limit is 2 tb.
I'm a simple person, when I see Nada in the thumbnail I click
I'll take that compliment :)
@@TechTesters haha funny comment
I'm a simple person, when I see SSD's in the thumbnail I click.
Nice comparison,now thinking which is better for PS5 expansion just to put all my PS4 games i played, i was thinking to get T7 or the Crucial or WD. more power to your channel 😎
Amazing video! Thanks for the work - keep it up! Subscribed ✅
You should mention that SanDisk is Western Digital. It is just sold under that former name because of brand recognition. But it is in fact Western Digital. You mentioned Lacie being Seagate so you also need to mention SanDisk being Western Digital
@A-L:
True (@ that Sandisk is Western-Digital, and that it's only sold under that former-name because of brand-recognition), but to be even-more accurate, Sandisk was bought by Western-Digital, and Lacie-Porsche [division [of Porsche]] was bought by Seagate :-(
Very informative video on SSDs and presentation! Given thumbs up and I've subscribed!
Thank you, and welcome 😁👊