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is that an SSD in your pocket or are you

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just happy to see me actually it's a bottle of

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water if you're going to stuff yourself use something that it's at least the

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right shape not Square that's

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all right so to move on from that awkward initial joke in as expedient a

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manner as possible I'm going to distract you guys by showing you a close up of

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that SSD that I was holding up this is the Angel bird SSD to go pocket not to

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be confused with the SSD to go twin that we've checked out before it features the

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same gorgeous anodized aluminium housing the same durable full-size usba

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connector with an included cable and it comes in your choice of colors but

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unfortunately purple's not an option this time so as long as you like blue red silver or black then you'll be

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pretty much good to go but none of those are the important differences the big

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ones are the size and the price in the

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last year sstd pricing has come down a lot so rather than paying over

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$900 for a dual 256 gig of the

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physically much larger twin product you

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can pick up a 512 of the pocket for less

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than a doll per gig still very expensive

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compared to a mechanical hard drive of course but not nearly as

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fragile and much faster of course it's

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not like hard drives and external ssds are the only options available though so

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let's figure out how this product Stacks up against the entire competitive

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landscape so representing portable USB 3 drives I've got the my passport Edge

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from Western Digital so same interface USB 3 and similar form factor but this

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time a mechanical Drive representing portable Thunderbolt ssds which do exist

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even though I don't have one is a powered Thunderbolt enclosure with an

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Intel 730 series SSD Frankenstein inside

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of it and finally representing a category that only just emerged SSD

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controller based usb3 drives we've got the Corsair Voyager GTX 256 gig a

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product with similar ruggedness a slightly lower price and an even more

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compact size so here's what the numbers look like I'll label these for you so

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you actually know what you're looking at by the way our Thunder enclosure this is

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Thunderbolt one by the way delivers the best performance in sequential rights

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and large random rights so copying large

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files over Thunderbolt to the drive will deliver 10 to 15% better performance

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than our SSD to go pocket but then the tables turn and the angel bird Drive

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pretty much takes over from there its sequential and random reads are well

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over 30% faster and it's native uasp support basically a protocol that's much

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more efficient for small data transactions over USB 3 lets it just

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wreck the other Solutions when it comes to 4K so small data random right

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performance especially as we increase the Q depth now to be clear this type of

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performance is mostly not impactful unless you're running an OS or a

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database on the drive or something but I'm not going to say no to this kind of

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performance if it isn't going to cost me extra which leads us into analysis time

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if we compare to the Thunderbolt solution something that has a similar

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per Gab cost then I guess it isn't costing us extra so it becomes a very

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obvious choice to go for the angel bird but when we compar to something else

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things get a little bit muddier a strong argument can be made for the Voyager GTX

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it's smaller and less expensive but it's

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not a perfect product either my keyring broke off making the size a bit of a

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disadvantage in some ways since I'm very likely to lose it now and its

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performance while very impressive for a thumb drive is not not as good as the

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SSD to go pocket and then of course hard drives are just so darn cheap even the

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my passport air chosen for its similar

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all metal industrial design can be had for 65 bucks for a 500 gig model but of

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course I wouldn't do that drop test on a drive like this because hard drives are

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just more fragile than ssds Now angel

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bird doesn't includes some value added extras including 6 months of Parallels

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for Mac 3 months of bitwig Studio some

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music software and then some royalty-free music that you can Tinker around with but ultimately deciding

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which of these products is best for you is probably going to come down to the

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convenience and the performance characteristics and how all of that

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aligns with your personal preference I do have to say though I'm impressed with

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how far Angel bird has come in the last year the pocket delivers the same

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Immaculate build quality as its predecessor with Incredible performance

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and it looks like a winner in my book look how small it is anyway guys thanks

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for watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment letting me know if you

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