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go I promised I'd give my impressions of actually using the drive when we were at
computex we needed something that was large enough for us to be able to store
video data that we created while we were at the show we needed something that was
fast enough that we could realistically work off of the drive itself so we could
easily move Premier projects from computer to computer rather than waiting
for file transfer onto local Drive make changes then transfer back we wanted
like a copy that everyone could work on and everyone could sort of pass around
and and and actually use and then we wanted something that wasn't going to
break and that was where the angel bird came in because watch
this I would never even begin to consider doing that to a hard drive
because it's SSD based it is expensive
but it has a few other benefits so so there's that there's also speed so I did
question their use of USB 3 uh type A
connectors back when I did the original unboxing but I found out why that was so
it doesn't benefit speed in any way uh a us a micro USB connector will do exactly
the same sort of data transfer speeds as a full-size connector but what it does
do is it improves the robustness of the drive so I'm just going to show you guys
a quick yeah oh Windows 8 so we're going
to do a quick speed test for you guys to show you that particular benefit but
like I said that wasn't the reason why they chose that wow 320 330 megabytes
per second around 300 is where we're hovering so that wasn't the reason that
they ended up choosing that particular approach it was more to do with the
robustness if you guys have been watching me for a while you'll probably already know I hate micro USB I think it
needs to die in a fire and it's not rugged enough for devices we use every
day if you bought a USB drive and it came with a micro connector on it you'd
probably throw it back at the clerk who sold it to you saying well what it's
going to you plug it in it's it's going to break off so something like a storage
device that you're expecting to use several times a day obviously needs to
be validated for many plugs Angel bird was able to validate the USB type a
connector for 3,000 plus plugs whereas micro USB even the most expensive
connector they could find they were only able to validate for around 350 so think
about that when you're choosing an external drive so anyway our use case
scenario I thought we were going to use the separate drives remember these are
two separate drives inside two separate USB controllers two separate everything
they're basically bolted together I thought we were going to use them for redundency but we ended up using them
more for organization so team a used the purple drive and Team B used the black
drive and because it's fast enough we were able to use this as a working copy
so the angel bird could be kind of tossed around the room passed from
person to person if you needed to work on a project rather than copying to the
computer working on it copying back to the computer that way everyone had the
most up to to date versions of whatever it was that we happened to be working on
the drive does run a little bit warm but that's to be expected so much like the
HTC1 versus Galaxy S4 conversation where the Galaxy S4 doesn't feel as hot in
your hands and doesn't make your palms wet but the processor throttles
sometimes whereas the HTC1 feels warmer but is actually running cooler that's
the kind of situation you get with an aluminum construction like this now
other than that the only real advantage that we found was just in terms of the
ruggedness being able to carry it around with us trans for footage being able to
toss it back and forth not having to worry about it breaking um that that's
pretty much it so I think it comes down to the conversation of guys do you think
that SSD based external storage is at the point yet where You' think about
investing in it bearing in mind it's much more expensive than mechanical
based external storage or is it still at the point where you look at it and you
go that's a very Niche product I'm not interested in that even if it is fast
enough to work off of directly attached to the computer and even if it is more
rugged and robust than a hard drive based solution so thank you for checking
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