{"video_id":"0YX-sfdBGwg","title":"Angelbird SSD2Go Dual External USB3 DUAL SSD Unboxing & Overview","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2014-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":383,"segments":[{"start_s":0.199,"end_s":7.72,"text":"this video is brought to you by the Intel Core i5 4670k unlocked processor","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.4,"end_s":14.0,"text":"add an Intel 520 series SSD to your Haswell system for unbelievable overall","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.0,"end_s":18.039,"text":"performance welcome to an a very excited","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.0,"end_s":19.76,"text":"unboxing of the Angel Bird ssd2 go now I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.039,"end_s":24.199,"text":"can pretty much guarantee you that you've never heard of this product","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.24,"end_s":28.92,"text":"because I'd never heard of it and well okay maybe you've heard of it but 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don't I don't know if actual retail units come with all this but I've got a couple of different usb3 cables what you'll notice that's unique about these right off the Hop is that they're a TOA cables so okay you can already tell there's probably something a little bit different about this drive there's also two more of them so these are white and I guess possibly different lengths I have I have no idea apparently yep these are these are longer cables all right so the SSD to go has a very very unique Design This is the twin well why don't we start with sort of common features so it has a sandforce based SSD storage solution okay so sandforce based SSD that's cool next up it has a built-in 4 second UPS so what that means is in the event of some kind of uh power loss or other sort of C catastrophic failure the built-in UPS will allow it to flush the cach that's one of the reasons they used sandforce controller based drives inside here because if you had a a controller that used a very large cache then what would happen is in the event of a power loss there might not be time to flush the data from the cash to the drive itself and that might result in some data loss and holy crap this is one of those products where you hold it and you go yeah that feels like quality each SSD to go is crafted out of a single block of the highest quality aluminum according to Angel bird and I'm inclined to agree with them at this point because it is absolutely fantastic and the twin model you can get them in a variety of colors I actually requested that the twin that I got be purple and black so it's in a in a combined sort of color combo that looks really really cool and what you'll notice okay so right so the UPS all that good stuff um sorry about that I was actually just too odd by the manufacturing quality uh designer manufactured in Austria so this means that I'm now officially a fanboy of at least two companies that are based in Austria the other being Noctua which as you guys know make my favorite fans ever um okay so one of the other advantages of the design that they've gone with here with the aluminum housing is that it keeps the drive nice and cool so angel birds quoting anywhere from a 32° to 40° operating temperature meaning that you can use this thing anywhere that you can take it and based on how it's built I think you can take it pretty much anywhere remember guys that the things that cause flash cells to degrade are rights so they have a fixed number of rights that they can handle as well as temperatures high operating temperatures will make your ssds degrade faster over time so the regular non-twin Drive is just one of these and the twin as you can well imagine is a twined version of it now the first thing you're going to notice about it is what in the heck lineus it has two interfaces the reason for that and the reason that I requested this drive specifically is because for my needs this is perfect you can get it with any number of different capacities so 120 240 or 480 gig individual or dual drives and what I'm going to be using it for is safe rugged durable redundant storage we're going to computex and we're going to need to store a lot of data that I don't want to keep keep on a hard drive inside a computer because I don't trust them at all and I want to be nice and fast for external transfers which is where this comes in but I don't want to risk a bar losing it I don't want to risk any kind of a data loss that's caused by a drop or a fall so that's where SST comes in and finally because these are fully redundant they have their own individual uh data sources they have their own individual power supplies completely their own dedicated circuitry I don't even have to worry about one of them just sort of outright dying randomly I will still have all of my data so I'm going for a redundant storage solution where I can just plug them and the other cool thing is that because USB 3 is going to be pretty much tapped Out by the there we go by the transfer speeds of a sand Force based SSD what's cool about having two separate interfaces to it is that you can actually take advantage of the full transfer speeds to both of the individual drives assuming ass uming that you've got full 5 gbit per second from two different ports on your board which is possible because many boards have multiple usb3 chipsets built into them now another use case scenario for this is if you wanted to use it as like a boot drive and a data storage drive so they've heard of custo or Angel bird has had customers ordering these with like a 120 gig Drive in one side and a 480 in the other side so they can actually run their OS off of it and then run their uh run their programs or run their storage or mastor or whatever else off of a separate one I think the real story with this is just the overall fit and finish of it I mean it's um I've never seen an external drive quite like this the anization is immaculate um wow very beautiful I think that pretty much wraps it up I will be giving you guys a full impression of what it's like to use the SSD to go once we get back from computex so do stay tuned for that but I can already tell you I'm pretty stoked on this don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews other computer videos and I think something like this wouldn't be complete without my trademark phone comparison so there it is next to an HTC1 and as you'll be able to see very shortly once I get the nod from NG that we've got a good shot of that is that it is significantly thicker than HTC1 so maybe not really intended to be kept in your pocket unless you want people asking you how happy you are to see them but something that you could easily keep in a bag"}