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all right so to move on from that awkward initial joke in as expedient a
manner as possible I'm going to distract you guys by showing you a close up of
that SSD that I was holding up this is the Angel bird SSD to go pocket not to
be confused with the SSD to go twin that we've checked out before it features the
same gorgeous anodized aluminium housing the same durable full-size usba
connector with an included cable and it comes in your choice of colors but
unfortunately purple's not an option this time so as long as you like blue red silver or black then you'll be
pretty much good to go but none of those are the important differences the big
ones are the size and the price in the
last year sstd pricing has come down a lot so rather than paying over
$900 for a dual 256 gig of the
physically much larger twin product you
can pick up a 512 of the pocket for less
than a doll per gig still very expensive
compared to a mechanical hard drive of course but not nearly as
fragile and much faster of course it's
not like hard drives and external ssds are the only options available though so
let's figure out how this product Stacks up against the entire competitive
landscape so representing portable USB 3 drives I've got the my passport Edge
from Western Digital so same interface USB 3 and similar form factor but this
time a mechanical Drive representing portable Thunderbolt ssds which do exist
even though I don't have one is a powered Thunderbolt enclosure with an
Intel 730 series SSD Frankenstein inside
of it and finally representing a category that only just emerged SSD
controller based usb3 drives we've got the Corsair Voyager GTX 256 gig a
product with similar ruggedness a slightly lower price and an even more
compact size so here's what the numbers look like I'll label these for you so
you actually know what you're looking at by the way our Thunder enclosure this is
Thunderbolt one by the way delivers the best performance in sequential rights
and large random rights so copying large
files over Thunderbolt to the drive will deliver 10 to 15% better performance
than our SSD to go pocket but then the tables turn and the angel bird Drive
pretty much takes over from there its sequential and random reads are well
over 30% faster and it's native uasp support basically a protocol that's much
more efficient for small data transactions over USB 3 lets it just
wreck the other Solutions when it comes to 4K so small data random right
performance especially as we increase the Q depth now to be clear this type of
performance is mostly not impactful unless you're running an OS or a
database on the drive or something but I'm not going to say no to this kind of
performance if it isn't going to cost me extra which leads us into analysis time
if we compare to the Thunderbolt solution something that has a similar
per Gab cost then I guess it isn't costing us extra so it becomes a very
obvious choice to go for the angel bird but when we compar to something else
things get a little bit muddier a strong argument can be made for the Voyager GTX
it's smaller and less expensive but it's
not a perfect product either my keyring broke off making the size a bit of a
disadvantage in some ways since I'm very likely to lose it now and its
performance while very impressive for a thumb drive is not not as good as the
SSD to go pocket and then of course hard drives are just so darn cheap even the
my passport air chosen for its similar
all metal industrial design can be had for 65 bucks for a 500 gig model but of
course I wouldn't do that drop test on a drive like this because hard drives are
just more fragile than ssds Now angel
bird doesn't includes some value added extras including 6 months of Parallels
for Mac 3 months of bitwig Studio some
music software and then some royalty-free music that you can Tinker around with but ultimately deciding
which of these products is best for you is probably going to come down to the
convenience and the performance characteristics and how all of that
aligns with your personal preference I do have to say though I'm impressed with
how far Angel bird has come in the last year the pocket delivers the same
Immaculate build quality as its predecessor with Incredible performance
and it looks like a winner in my book look how small it is anyway guys thanks
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