I was a “content creator” in the early days of TH-cam. I gave it up to pursue my career but now i want to create content to help others who are pursuing a similar path. Times have changed, tech has changed- now I’m doing my best to advance with technology. I appreciate the information you provide, you are definitely helping me figure out the technical side of my creative pursuits. Thanks!
Recently, I've seen manufacturers creating a single housing/shuttle unit that hold four NVMe drives. It's the same size as a 3.5" SSD. Very light. Runs hot. Handles RAID configs. That option can be useful for creators with large projects who need professional-grade data redundancy and quick retrieval.
This came at such a good time as I’m doing a complete revamp of my media storage! I’ve been working mostly off the Samsung SSDs, G-Drives, and Lacie HDDs, but it’s amazing to see the options we have for external storage these days. Great video and really appreciate the BM speed tests you did!
@@RyanKao ryan you mentioned you can use it with USB if you dont have Thunderbolt. do you know what speeds you would get then? how much you would lose ? kind reagrds
I'm currently using the following external setup on my MBP 16" M1 Pro & Mac Studio M1 Max to edit FCPx vids. I'm getting read/write speeds of 2400 thru 2800+ MB/s (2.4 Gb/s thru 2.8Gb/s). This is among the fastest I've seen for an external M.2 setup! M.2 stick: SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe Gen 4 (MZ-V8P1T0B) - $139 Enclosure: TEKQ Cube Thunderbolt 3 SSD Enclosure, Thunderbolt 4, USB 4 - $127 Overall, I'm pretty darn happy with this setup even though the enclosure does get hot (they all do!). Also, I know the SSD is overkill since the enclosure will NEVER see the 7000 MB/s rating of the gen 4 980pro, but for the reasonable/discounted price of the pro I decided to get the highest tier option.
@@mattduncan5500 On my Mac Studio M1 internal I'm seeing 5390+ MB/s Read and 4600+ MB/s Write. I don't have my MBP around at the moment to run a test on it
Your video is one of the best and clearest that I have seen in a long time. I am not a computer geek but an amateur photographer who completely understood your presentation. Thank you.
As someone who just got home from a remote gig doing editing on the fly and quickly for a music festival I really wish the algo would’ve recommended this video before my gig lol! Man this was so insightful and full of the exact information I need to level up my editing rig! Thank you so much!
I haven't been in the game for nearly ten years. Seeing this video brought me up to speed with what I need to know to make an informed decision. Thank you. I liked and subbed
As a DJ who works every single weekend at minimum, and is also constantly updating and restructuring his library, having a fast & reliable hard drive is super duper important. I've tested this idea of a custom drive years ago during prominent 2.5 inch SATA SSD's, and my custom worked very well for basic file management. Excited to give this another go for my music libraries.
Also, I'm tired of having hella 1TB drives just sitting around. With a custom route, you can swap it out and keep the same enclosure. Also, you can install that M.2 SSD in another device, or resell (Which to me, internal M.2 SSD's have a better resale value than external drives). ONE LAST THING, I think this is a greater "future proof" approach because if (Hopefully when) Thunderbolt enclosures become more affordable, you can truly unlock the full read and write capabilities of the drive you already use.
Bought the Acasis a year ago... Ended up not using it cause it's heavy and big. Instead I use a Kingston xs2000 which is small and ultralite and I have no problem even when it's hanging from my Macbook pro's usb-c port. However, I miss the speed of the TB4 Acasis case, so, I'm in search for the best way to attach the case on the screen... Nice video!
This is very useful and so timely, thanks a lot Ryan! I just ran out of space in my computer 2 days ago and i was going crazy trying to figure out what to do for my media storage and you broke it down so clearly! Im getting that Sabrant and Acasis combo right now.
I’ve had a bad experience with the Sabrent drives with the enclosure. Sure they’re fast, but I’ve had them get too hot and disconnect mid transfer. I’ve had this happen on two Sabrent purchases.
Do you think putting a 980 pro heatsink version into an Acasis enclosure, and leaving it open behind the Mac studio right next to the air flow is a good idea?
Ahhh coming in clutch as always bro! Media storage is definitely something I've been wanting to have a nice portable system with since I didn't spring for massive storage on my Mac. Glad to see the different options that are out there and speed is always a must haha 👌🏾
I use an Icy Dock PCIe 4x mobile rack in my main PC. I can take the NVMe out of the Sabrent (for example) and put it in the Icy Dock cartridge then insert the cartridge into the rack. Other users claim you can get 4.0 speed out of this on a 4.0 slot. I can confidently say, it's fast AF!! The only big drawback is that since the rack is on the PCI bus, it's not plug-and-play, requires a reboot. I haven't played around with it, yet. I tend to move the data via USB 3.+ to the NVMe in the rack. NVMe sticks are great for archiving, so you no longer need a warehouse!!!!
Thanks, very useful. One question: I read that only thunderbolt automatically executes Trim routines on the SSD, and that with USB the drive gets slower over time. True?
Hi Ryan. Great vid. I purchased the NVMe M.2 SSD Acasis enclosure and the Rocket Q4 NVMe 4.0 (2TB) SSD and ran the blackmagic speed test. I am only seeing write speeds of 1073 MB/s and reads of 2381 MB/s. Connected to PC via provided thunderbolt(3) cable. Any thoughts as to why I would be seeing the slower write speeds? Appreciate your thoughts.
Samsung T5 has jumped to 329USD. The SanDisk 2TB Extreme PRO Portable SSD - is 2 x as fast Up to 2000MB/s at 269USD. None have Thunderbolt 4. I cannot find the Acasis usb 4.0 m.2 nvme ssd enclosure with Thunderbolt 4/3 Anywhere. Do you have a link to one? Your AMAZON SCREEN SHOT indicates Thunderbolt 3/4. Thank you sir! Us cinematic composers need super high speed that allows us to run massive TB programs straight from the external SSD. I'm going with Acasis and the Rocket SSD. 4 days of researching this has paid off.
Why would anyone choose to edit off any of those when they have transfer rates of 1000 when the laci rugged pro transfers at 2800. Is there something I’m missing?
As someone in IT I find marketing the act of simply putting internal hard drives in enclosures as “custom hard drives”fascinating. Not complaining, i enjoy this pivot.
Yeah, but to be fair they do have a massive number of options between ports, interface and design. Then the drives themselves add another array of options not available with a “pre built” external drive.
Great idea but in Canada on Amazon the hi speed enclosure combined with the Sabrent 4 TB comes out to $1,000 with tax in CDN $. WTF. Who really can afford that?
Great video. Question. Love the fast enclosure idea with a 2TB ssd. I am thinking of buying a used basic iMac 24 inch. Can I use final cut and use that fast SSD to hold my video and use it to edit from Final Cut? Small videos also. Not major motion pics. Just Real Estate videos. Thanks very much
Great video! One of the best!! Does it run hot during hours of editing? I bought the space shuttle and it nearly burned me. Just wanted your thoughts on this configuration and if so, do you suggest something like thermal pads along with it to keep the temp down. Thanks again!
Built this setup and was excited about it, but it keeps randomly ejecting from my MacBook Pro. Any ideas on what to do? Hope someone sees this, as I can’t find any info on it.
I don’t believe you can fairly test the Sabrent enclosure on a Mac. While Mac’s do have thunderbolt/usb4 capabilities, anything 3.2 is not supported and gets throttled down to 3.1 speeds. I so not not the full extent of this, but I did confirm that my M1 MacBook Pro M1 Pro only has the usb 3.1 bus interface.
I’ve been using the acasis enclosure for almost a year now. I can’t stress how much i recommend this for speed and heat dissipation. I’ve had a sabrant 1tb’s chips burn a couple of years due to heat when i installed it on a cheap plastic/aluminum enclosure 😡. I can’t insist enough applying a heat spreader so it touches the cover. Some SSDs do not touch the case, rendering the purchase of a premium product useless. Let alone loosing a high quality SSD.
Ahhhhh I dunno which one to get? My new labtop has a thunderbolt 4 port that I'm not using so thinking about the more expensive one. I'm going to utilize a 1TB ssd I bought a few years ago for a desktop I didn't end up building so now I want the space to use for storing and editing videos. Any advice?
Hey man I just recently went this route with ssd’s! I was curious if I could use purchase multiple Sabrent ssd and just use the one enclosure. Or if I need an enclosure for each sabrent ssd?
The enclosure alone is $140. The crucial x8 external SSD is $99. Am I missing something here? I didn't want to spend $200-$350 on 1tb...and I don't think my 2019 laptop can use 40gbps via thunderbolt. But 1050mbps may be more realistic. Definitely need some help figuring this out...financially.
If you have a MacBook Pro with 8TB Storage, what external drive would you recommend for use with Time Machine? One that is ideally somewhat portable but still fast (that is, if speed is important for a drive you use with Time Machine, maybe not?) Great video thank you for the information!
The only thing that's stopping me from buying the Gen 4 NVME SSD is if it's compatible with my PC & gaming laptop. I had an issue with Samsung's external X5 SSD that didn't connect or wasn't compatible. Is there a way to find out before I purchase the NVME?
Hi Ryan, with the same configuration I am just the half in write speed (1060MB/s, instead of your 2370MB/s). Did you formatted your Sabrent as exFAT? Cheers!
I have heard some bad reviews on the sabrent nvme and wondering what your experience is with it, I just want something to store files and not much read write happening but a larger 4tb.
Greetings man! Thanks for the content, you support me a lot. Now the problem I have is that the Sabrent 4TB i not find it, I have only seen the 2TB and 1TB. I just bought a MacBook Pro to edit videos but I don't want to use the hard drive of the Mac to edit or install apps. I want to do it on an external hard drive. Do you think the Sabrent 2TB will work for me or do I really need the 4TB? Thanks in advance!!
I’ll stick to the T7 2TB for $129.99. The price for the amount of storage can’t be beat and they’re fast enough for video work. I suppose if you’re shooting 6K or 8K video and you want to edit off the drive, then build a drive with good speed and heat dissipation.
@@ghost-user559 Yeah, but for most the price difference isn't really worth it. That T7 2TB SSD is not $115. Can't really beat that price and most people don't need more speed.
@@MariusMocan-mn4do I totally agree. But for anyone using that ssd as a boot drive or transferring a lot of data it might be worth it to use a Thunderbolt case. The biggest reason is MacOS only sends Trim information to a thunderbolt ssd. So to get the expected lifetime of the ssd you really need the OS to talk to the ssd controller through the Trim command. So for casual storage it’s not a problem, but for heavy users it might be worth 150$ or so to get a thunderbolt enclosure and ssd. But you can definitely get multiple T7 as well and go easy on them and be totally fine too.
@@MariusMocan-mn4do It’s also interesting that once you get the Thunderbolt enclosure, the 1 TB evo plus from Samsung is only 60$ right now, and 115$ for the 2TB. So once you get the enclosure you can always upgrade the ssd as you go. I actually didn’t know they were on sale right now. So I’m definitely torn between 150 for the Thunderbolt enclosure 90$ plus the 1TB evo nvme, for 60$ or the 2 TB T7 for 130. For 20$ more I get the extra speed of Thunderbolt and the enclosure for future upgrades. But that 2TB T7 is really tempting because I would only be getting a 1TB around the same price with the Thunderbolt enclosure. Definitely a tough choice at these prices.
Has anybody tried this out for long-term video file storage? And if so, is a custom-built hard drive reliable for long-term file storage - aka can it ensure that my files won't get corrupted over time? Thanks for the help :)
Man thank you this is very eye opening !!! I also recently bought a m1 macbook pro 14inch and i still didn’t get any dock nore nvme enclosure solution to go with it!!! I am thrilled that you even manage to get it running with a 4To sabrent nvme when acasis themselves advertise their product to max out at 2 To nvme limit Did you kept it ? Have you experience or notice any drop outs or disfunction with the acasis/sabrent combo! I am very curious plus i am about to shoot !!! Anyway thank you for sharing with us , and i wait for your answer anytime you get the chance. God bless you.
I will have to check this out I have used a lot of the large and small m.2 enclosures. The only problem I had found with the small ones is that they would get so hot (even tho they shouldn't).
Yes, the smaller enclosures do get hotter. And no it’s not a bad thing, NVME drives output a lot of heat. So a slightly larger enclosure makes a big difference to keep temps down
What if you're, say, editing in Davinci with footage that is located on this external drive. Will you see performance difference between the Samsung T5 [400Mbps] and the Sandisk Extreme SSD? [800Mbps]
I'm using Sandisk E61 2TB SSD for backups on shoot, I like the durability and form factor. But I'd definitely use this setup for editing. Thanks for the tip!
@1:08 "...this Samsung T7 or even T5..." Note that the T7 is very fast, until its cache runs out. When that happens, you can expect USB 2.0 speed from the T7. I do not know how much cache the T7 has. It is probably 5% - 10% of the drive's capacity. So for most people, they will never write enough data, without rest, to fill the T7's cache. Then, when the drive is not busy, it offloads the data in its cache to the very slow QLC NAND fabric. That frees up your cache. The T5, on the other hand, will not slow down (well, nothing meaningful). You can write to it, and fill it to capacity, non-stop, and it will run at (or near) its top speed, 100% of the time. For smaller write operations, the T7 will be faster than the T5. And if you will never be writing 100GB+ of data, non-stop, then the T7 is a great choice. So the T7 is a super fast sprinter. The T5 is a very fast marathon runner. I discovered the performance issues when using both the T5 and the T7 for Chia processing. The T5 was a great performer, in that regard. The T7 took something like 8x longer to complete the same job, and that is because Chia processing will exceed your drive's cache. I returned my T7. @2:26 "You'd be really surprised at how hot these little NVMe drives get". Note that that will happen, only when you are writing gigs and gigs and gigs of data, with little or no rest. For saving your 2GB video, and nothing else, it hardly heats up. And for reading data from the NVMe drive, that will not heat it up.
Still looking for ssd that can keep up with 12bit cdng fikes from my sigma fp. So many SSD failed... Bought samsung t7 ssd it is fine very fast until it get 40% used space then it started dropping frames. Found out that it's common thing for ssmsung t7
I was a “content creator” in the early days of TH-cam. I gave it up to pursue my career but now i want to create content to help others who are pursuing a similar path. Times have changed, tech has changed- now I’m doing my best to advance with technology. I appreciate the information you provide, you are definitely helping me figure out the technical side of my creative pursuits. Thanks!
I’m very skeptical of TH-cam creator recommendations. But this dude has earned my trust.
As a minimalist content creator, this is exactly the solution I’m looking for.
Thanks for sharing!
Recently, I've seen manufacturers creating a single housing/shuttle unit that hold four NVMe drives. It's the same size as a 3.5" SSD. Very light. Runs hot. Handles RAID configs. That option can be useful for creators with large projects who need professional-grade data redundancy and quick retrieval.
That look like a time bomb.
Professional should use NAS
This came at such a good time as I’m doing a complete revamp of my media storage! I’ve been working mostly off the Samsung SSDs, G-Drives, and Lacie HDDs, but it’s amazing to see the options we have for external storage these days. Great video and really appreciate the BM speed tests you did!
Hell yeah! I’ve truly been impressed with the performance and reliability with this setup…
@@RyanKao ryan you mentioned you can use it with USB if you dont have Thunderbolt. do you know what speeds you would get then? how much you would lose ?
kind reagrds
I'm currently using the following external setup on my MBP 16" M1 Pro & Mac Studio M1 Max to edit FCPx vids. I'm getting read/write speeds of 2400 thru 2800+ MB/s (2.4 Gb/s thru 2.8Gb/s). This is among the fastest I've seen for an external M.2 setup!
M.2 stick: SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe Gen 4 (MZ-V8P1T0B) - $139
Enclosure: TEKQ Cube Thunderbolt 3 SSD Enclosure, Thunderbolt 4, USB 4 - $127
Overall, I'm pretty darn happy with this setup even though the enclosure does get hot (they all do!). Also, I know the SSD is overkill since the enclosure will NEVER see the 7000 MB/s rating of the gen 4 980pro, but for the reasonable/discounted price of the pro I decided to get the highest tier option.
hey brother , what speeds does your internal SSD get ?
wondering speed comparisons between the ex setup and your internal .
Cheers :)
@@mattduncan5500 On my Mac Studio M1 internal I'm seeing 5390+ MB/s Read and 4600+ MB/s Write. I don't have my MBP around at the moment to run a test on it
@@otm777 thanks legend.
does your M1 and Pro have the same chip ?
@@mattduncan5500 Studio has the "M1 Max" and MBP has the "M1 Pro" chip
Your video is one of the best and clearest that I have seen in a long time. I am not a computer geek but an amateur photographer who completely understood your presentation. Thank you.
Your delivery and video quality is off the roof! 😮
bro, your backing track choices are sick
Yo thanks!!
As someone who just got home from a remote gig doing editing on the fly and quickly for a music festival I really wish the algo would’ve recommended this video before my gig lol! Man this was so insightful and full of the exact information I need to level up my editing rig! Thank you so much!
I can honestly say I had no idea you could do something like this. Awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching man!!
I haven't been in the game for nearly ten years. Seeing this video brought me up to speed with what I need to know to make an informed decision. Thank you. I liked and subbed
As a DJ who works every single weekend at minimum, and is also constantly updating and restructuring his library, having a fast & reliable hard drive is super duper important. I've tested this idea of a custom drive years ago during prominent 2.5 inch SATA SSD's, and my custom worked very well for basic file management. Excited to give this another go for my music libraries.
Also, I'm tired of having hella 1TB drives just sitting around. With a custom route, you can swap it out and keep the same enclosure. Also, you can install that M.2 SSD in another device, or resell (Which to me, internal M.2 SSD's have a better resale value than external drives).
ONE LAST THING, I think this is a greater "future proof" approach because if (Hopefully when) Thunderbolt enclosures become more affordable, you can truly unlock the full read and write capabilities of the drive you already use.
Bought the Acasis a year ago... Ended up not using it cause it's heavy and big. Instead I use a Kingston xs2000 which is small and ultralite and I have no problem even when it's hanging from my Macbook pro's usb-c port. However, I miss the speed of the TB4 Acasis case, so, I'm in search for the best way to attach the case on the screen... Nice video!
Thanks for the info. Can I use the Acasis & SSD card as a boot drive/Mac HD?
This is very useful and so timely, thanks a lot Ryan! I just ran out of space in my computer 2 days ago and i was going crazy trying to figure out what to do for my media storage and you broke it down so clearly! Im getting that Sabrant and Acasis combo right now.
I’ve had a bad experience with the Sabrent drives with the enclosure. Sure they’re fast, but I’ve had them get too hot and disconnect mid transfer. I’ve had this happen on two Sabrent purchases.
That's exactly why they sell heatsinks as well.
Do you think putting a 980 pro heatsink version into an Acasis enclosure, and leaving it open behind the Mac studio right next to the air flow is a good idea?
Very helpful! Simple explanations, good hands on demonstration, a nice chart and finally a good summary.
Good points bro 🔥
🙏🏼
Finally a video that is really worth watching on youtube! thank you Ryan!!
Appreciate this man!!
Great tip. I can't believe the transfer speeds. Amazing.
Ahhh coming in clutch as always bro! Media storage is definitely something I've been wanting to have a nice portable system with since I didn't spring for massive storage on my Mac. Glad to see the different options that are out there and speed is always a must haha 👌🏾
Thanks for watching Benji!
I heard that you need a special Thunderbolt cable to get the best speeds out of the mac. Did you use one, or just a USB-C cable?
bro TBH this was very insightful video thanks for the effort you have put on.
curious to how are we going to store those m.2 ssd when not in use?🤔
Did you use the thermal pad that came with the Acasis?
I use an Icy Dock PCIe 4x mobile rack in my main PC. I can take the NVMe out of the Sabrent (for example) and put it in the Icy Dock cartridge then insert the cartridge into the rack. Other users claim you can get 4.0 speed out of this on a 4.0 slot. I can confidently say, it's fast AF!!
The only big drawback is that since the rack is on the PCI bus, it's not plug-and-play, requires a reboot. I haven't played around with it, yet. I tend to move the data via USB 3.+ to the NVMe in the rack. NVMe sticks are great for archiving, so you no longer need a warehouse!!!!
Brilliant! I thought about doing this but I wasn't sure if it was worth it or not.
It absolutely is!!
@@RyanKao I see and I'm in the market for a new production drive. Thanks!
Thanks, very useful. One question: I read that only thunderbolt automatically executes Trim routines on the SSD, and that with USB the drive gets slower over time. True?
Definitely getting on this asap. Very helpful, thank you Ryan!
Whooo 🙏 thanks man
Hi Ryan. Great vid. I purchased the NVMe M.2 SSD Acasis enclosure and the Rocket Q4 NVMe 4.0 (2TB) SSD and ran the blackmagic speed test. I am only seeing write speeds of 1073 MB/s and reads of 2381 MB/s. Connected to PC via provided thunderbolt(3) cable. Any thoughts as to why I would be seeing the slower write speeds? Appreciate your thoughts.
hello Nigel, what write and read speed where you expecting to come out of the test?
Samsung T5 has jumped to 329USD. The SanDisk 2TB Extreme PRO Portable SSD - is 2 x as fast Up to 2000MB/s at 269USD. None have Thunderbolt 4. I cannot find the Acasis usb 4.0 m.2 nvme ssd enclosure with Thunderbolt 4/3 Anywhere. Do you have a link to one? Your AMAZON SCREEN SHOT indicates Thunderbolt 3/4. Thank you sir! Us cinematic composers need super high speed that allows us to run massive TB programs straight from the external SSD. I'm going with Acasis and the Rocket SSD. 4 days of researching this has paid off.
Why would anyone choose to edit off any of those when they have transfer rates of 1000 when the laci rugged pro transfers at 2800. Is there something I’m missing?
As someone in IT I find marketing the act of simply putting internal hard drives in enclosures as “custom hard drives”fascinating. Not complaining, i enjoy this pivot.
Yeah, but to be fair they do have a massive number of options between ports, interface and design. Then the drives themselves add another array of options not available with a “pre built” external drive.
Excellent video man, precise and straight to the point, thank you!
Appreciate the "nerdy video", I didn't even know This was a possibility before😂
😂 thank you my guy
I was having second thoughts on buying a T5 or reuse my old laptop's 256gb ssd. You sold me with this! Thanks Ry!
Absolutely! Glad I could help!
Great idea but in Canada on Amazon the hi speed enclosure combined with the Sabrent 4 TB comes out to $1,000 with tax in CDN $. WTF. Who really can afford that?
What about RAID system ? Everything located in a single disk when connected to your computer
So it works well with a Macbook pro? I've heard some ssds do not play well with Macbooks
Hi dear! Fantastic video. Know you if Fuji cameras like xt3 or xt5 can recording with this SSD NVMe memorys? Thank you so much for your help!
What do you recommend for backing up all your projects? like 6TB or so
Good video but There’s a mistake you said 0:45 Weather its a laptop or SSD that does not make sense you mean laptop and desktop? Right?
😳 haha, yeah oops! Thanks for letting me know
@@RyanKao it’s all good I was like what did he say also did you peel the thermal pad sticker off so you can have a thermal pad that here to the SSD?
I got a WD SN850X NVME in one of those Acasis enclosures and on my MacBook Pro it can copy 30GB within seconds.
Great video. Question. Love the fast enclosure idea with a 2TB ssd. I am thinking of buying a used basic iMac 24 inch. Can I use final cut and use that fast SSD to hold my video and use it to edit from Final Cut? Small videos also. Not major motion pics. Just Real Estate videos. Thanks very much
Great video! One of the best!! Does it run hot during hours of editing? I bought the space shuttle and it nearly burned me. Just wanted your thoughts on this configuration and if so, do you suggest something like thermal pads along with it to keep the temp down. Thanks again!
Built this setup and was excited about it, but it keeps randomly ejecting from my MacBook Pro. Any ideas on what to do? Hope someone sees this, as I can’t find any info on it.
Built with the Sargent ssd and the Acasis enclosure
Do sabrent enclosures have overheating?
Could you record prores footage from an external monitor directly onto this SSD?
I don’t believe you can fairly test the Sabrent enclosure on a Mac. While Mac’s do have thunderbolt/usb4 capabilities, anything 3.2 is not supported and gets throttled down to 3.1 speeds. I so not not the full extent of this, but I did confirm that my M1 MacBook Pro M1 Pro only has the usb 3.1 bus interface.
I’ve been using the acasis enclosure for almost a year now. I can’t stress how much i recommend this for speed and heat dissipation. I’ve had a sabrant 1tb’s chips burn a couple of years due to heat when i installed it on a cheap plastic/aluminum enclosure 😡.
I can’t insist enough applying a heat spreader so it touches the cover. Some SSDs do not touch the case, rendering the purchase of a premium product useless. Let alone loosing a high quality SSD.
Would this be good for long term storage? Like if I left my photos or videos on this for years and kept it safe
Ahhhhh I dunno which one to get? My new labtop has a thunderbolt 4 port that I'm not using so thinking about the more expensive one. I'm going to utilize a 1TB ssd I bought a few years ago for a desktop I didn't end up building so now I want the space to use for storing and editing videos. Any advice?
Super insightful!!! Thanks for introducing it☺️ definitely considering switching!
Thanks so much Jack!
Hey, I ordered the basic enclosure (Sabrent EC-SNVE) with the Gen4 NVMe 2TB ssd (Sabrent Rocket Q4 4.0). But impossible to use it, you know why? 😢
Thanks, you've answered my question ... which was: will the Acacis support over 2TB SSD.
Glad to hear 😊
Another great video my guy! I’ve actually been looking into getting a new hardrive, hopefully an SSD this time around.
Can it be used with black magic pocket cinema camera?
you find out?
Super interesting! I never knew you could Frankenstein your own drive, I’ll defo be looking into this from now on :)
Absolutely! Thanks for watching Joey!
Do you know what's most affordable for 4TB? Is it possible to have 2x Gen3 NVME SSD in to the fast enclosure?
Hey man I just recently went this route with ssd’s! I was curious if I could use purchase multiple Sabrent ssd and just use the one enclosure. Or if I need an enclosure for each sabrent ssd?
Just got the Acasis larger enclosure and 1 TB sabrent. I believe it needs to be formatted to be used as a hard drive?
The enclosure alone is $140.
The crucial x8 external SSD is $99.
Am I missing something here? I didn't want to spend $200-$350 on 1tb...and I don't think my 2019 laptop can use 40gbps via thunderbolt. But 1050mbps may be more realistic.
Definitely need some help figuring this out...financially.
The cheaper enclosure is $25. The fast one costs more. You get what you pay for
If you have a MacBook Pro with 8TB Storage, what external drive would you recommend for use with Time Machine? One that is ideally somewhat portable but still fast (that is, if speed is important for a drive you use with Time Machine, maybe not?) Great video thank you for the information!
Dude you're a legend. I turned the bell on.
even if you get a big enclosure, it will still slow down because of the heat right?
This review was done in Febuary. Any new recoomendations for case and drive?
thanks. are you did suggest to me use sabrent usb for long time video editing?
What was the computer you used to arrive at your benchmarks test results? Thank you.
*newbie to Mac* Can that Acasis work with the new M2 MacBook Pro's with TB 4?
The only thing that's stopping me from buying the Gen 4 NVME SSD is if it's compatible with my PC & gaming laptop. I had an issue with Samsung's external X5 SSD that didn't connect or wasn't compatible. Is there a way to find out before I purchase the NVME?
My SanDisk Extreme Pro 2TB giving only 300 MB/s speed .... is it fine or it's not correct.
Hi Ryan, with the same configuration I am just the half in write speed (1060MB/s, instead of your 2370MB/s). Did you formatted your Sabrent as exFAT? Cheers!
Hi! I'm having the same problem, formated to exFAT. Did you find a solution?
HI, how do ACASIS Thunderbolt 4 perform up to now? Is it still good?
I have heard some bad reviews on the sabrent nvme and wondering what your experience is with it, I just want something to store files and not much read write happening but a larger 4tb.
I'm thinking of buying the Acasis External SSD Enclosure for cache in After Effects. Is that a good idea?
thanks a lot, this video was really helpful. Thanks for your clear and eloquent way of explaining things... 👏🏻
Greetings man!
Thanks for the content, you support me a lot. Now the problem I have is that the Sabrent 4TB i not find it, I have only seen the 2TB and 1TB. I just bought a MacBook Pro to edit videos but I don't want to use the hard drive of the Mac to edit or install apps. I want to do it on an external hard drive. Do you think the Sabrent 2TB will work for me or do I really need the 4TB? Thanks in advance!!
I’ll stick to the T7 2TB for $129.99. The price for the amount of storage can’t be beat and they’re fast enough for video work. I suppose if you’re shooting 6K or 8K video and you want to edit off the drive, then build a drive with good speed and heat dissipation.
Yeah but if you use MacOS there are other advantages to Thunderbolt drives
@@ghost-user559 Yeah, but for most the price difference isn't really worth it. That T7 2TB SSD is not $115. Can't really beat that price and most people don't need more speed.
@@MariusMocan-mn4do I totally agree. But for anyone using that ssd as a boot drive or transferring a lot of data it might be worth it to use a Thunderbolt case. The biggest reason is MacOS only sends Trim information to a thunderbolt ssd. So to get the expected lifetime of the ssd you really need the OS to talk to the ssd controller through the Trim command. So for casual storage it’s not a problem, but for heavy users it might be worth 150$ or so to get a thunderbolt enclosure and ssd.
But you can definitely get multiple T7 as well and go easy on them and be totally fine too.
@@MariusMocan-mn4do It’s also interesting that once you get the Thunderbolt enclosure, the 1 TB evo plus from Samsung is only 60$ right now, and 115$ for the 2TB. So once you get the enclosure you can always upgrade the ssd as you go. I actually didn’t know they were on sale right now.
So I’m definitely torn between 150 for the Thunderbolt enclosure 90$ plus the 1TB evo nvme, for 60$ or the 2 TB T7 for 130. For 20$ more I get the extra speed of Thunderbolt and the enclosure for future upgrades. But that 2TB T7 is really tempting because I would only be getting a 1TB around the same price with the Thunderbolt enclosure. Definitely a tough choice at these prices.
@ryankao Mr Kao, how does it compare to the speed you get of your internal ?
Wow this is fantastic advice, thank you for the super practical content man!
Thanks Jack!! Glad you enjoyed!
Do you think encryption drive like G Drive Armorlock is important or just unneccesary additoonal cost and clumbersome to use?
Is this good for macbook pro m2 for editing 4k video?
Has anybody tried this out for long-term video file storage? And if so, is a custom-built hard drive reliable for long-term file storage - aka can it ensure that my files won't get corrupted over time? Thanks for the help :)
Man thank you this is very eye opening !!!
I also recently bought a m1 macbook pro 14inch and i still didn’t get any dock nore nvme enclosure solution to go with it!!!
I am thrilled that you even manage to get it running with a 4To sabrent nvme when acasis themselves advertise their product to max out at 2 To nvme limit
Did you kept it ? Have you experience or notice any drop outs or disfunction with the acasis/sabrent combo! I am very curious plus i am about to shoot !!!
Anyway thank you for sharing with us , and i wait for your answer anytime you get the chance.
God bless you.
Good, clear explanation. Thank you.
Different video but I really liked this one. I’ve been using the S7 and would love to try something different. 👏
Give it a try! I think you’ll be really impressed
Would that option would be good considering it even for transporting and travelling? Thank you!!!
Never though about doing this but this makes so much sense 🙏🏼
How can you update the firmware via USB?
I will have to check this out I have used a lot of the large and small m.2 enclosures. The only problem I had found with the small ones is that they would get so hot (even tho they shouldn't).
Yes, the smaller enclosures do get hotter. And no it’s not a bad thing, NVME drives output a lot of heat. So a slightly larger enclosure makes a big difference to keep temps down
What are the read and write speeds after some time when the drive has heated up
What if you're, say, editing in Davinci with footage that is located on this external drive. Will you see performance difference between the Samsung T5 [400Mbps] and the Sandisk Extreme SSD? [800Mbps]
Where is your hoodie from?
I'm using Sandisk E61 2TB SSD for backups on shoot, I like the durability and form factor. But I'd definitely use this setup for editing. Thanks for the tip!
Is the link to a Gen3 SSD accurate? It seems to take me to a Gen4 drive. ... or am I doing something wrong?
@1:08 "...this Samsung T7 or even T5..."
Note that the T7 is very fast, until its cache runs out. When that happens, you can expect USB 2.0 speed from the T7.
I do not know how much cache the T7 has. It is probably 5% - 10% of the drive's capacity.
So for most people, they will never write enough data, without rest, to fill the T7's cache.
Then, when the drive is not busy, it offloads the data in its cache to the very slow QLC NAND fabric. That frees up your cache.
The T5, on the other hand, will not slow down (well, nothing meaningful).
You can write to it, and fill it to capacity, non-stop, and it will run at (or near) its top speed, 100% of the time.
For smaller write operations, the T7 will be faster than the T5. And if you will never be writing 100GB+ of data, non-stop, then the T7 is a great choice.
So the T7 is a super fast sprinter.
The T5 is a very fast marathon runner.
I discovered the performance issues when using both the T5 and the T7 for Chia processing.
The T5 was a great performer, in that regard. The T7 took something like 8x longer to complete the same job, and that is because Chia processing will exceed your drive's cache.
I returned my T7.
@2:26 "You'd be really surprised at how hot these little NVMe drives get".
Note that that will happen, only when you are writing gigs and gigs and gigs of data, with little or no rest.
For saving your 2GB video, and nothing else, it hardly heats up.
And for reading data from the NVMe drive, that will not heat it up.
Very impressive demo! Thanks.
Still looking for ssd that can keep up with 12bit cdng fikes from my sigma fp. So many SSD failed...
Bought samsung t7 ssd it is fine very fast until it get 40% used space then it started dropping frames. Found out that it's common thing for ssmsung t7