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performance welcome to an a very excited
unboxing of the Angel Bird ssd2 go now I
can pretty much guarantee you that you've never heard of this product
because I'd never heard of it and well okay maybe you've heard of it but I've
never heard of it it is an external SSD
solution so external storage solution that it's well it's been a long time
since I've encountered an external storage Solution that's really taken me
aback and kind of going oh lonus no there's something you haven't seen yet
so inside the box I find I 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