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Vengeance gaming to learn more welcome to my followup on the angel bird SSD to

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go I promised I'd give my impressions of actually using the drive when we were at

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computex we needed something that was large enough for us to be able to store

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video data that we created while we were at the show we needed something that was

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fast enough that we could realistically work off of the drive itself so we could

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easily move Premier projects from computer to computer rather than waiting

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for file transfer onto local Drive make changes then transfer back we wanted

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like a copy that everyone could work on and everyone could sort of pass around

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and and and actually use and then we wanted something that wasn't going to

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break and that was where the angel bird came in because watch

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this I would never even begin to consider doing that to a hard drive

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because it's SSD based it is expensive

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but it has a few other benefits so so there's that there's also speed so I did

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question their use of USB 3 uh type A

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connectors back when I did the original unboxing but I found out why that was so

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it doesn't benefit speed in any way uh a us a micro USB connector will do exactly

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the same sort of data transfer speeds as a full-size connector but what it does

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do is it improves the robustness of the drive so I'm just going to show you guys

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a quick yeah oh Windows 8 so we're going

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to do a quick speed test for you guys to show you that particular benefit but

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like I said that wasn't the reason why they chose that wow 320 330 megabytes

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per second around 300 is where we're hovering so that wasn't the reason that

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they ended up choosing that particular approach it was more to do with the

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robustness if you guys have been watching me for a while you'll probably already know I hate micro USB I think it

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needs to die in a fire and it's not rugged enough for devices we use every

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day if you bought a USB drive and it came with a micro connector on it you'd

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probably throw it back at the clerk who sold it to you saying well what it's

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going to you plug it in it's it's going to break off so something like a storage

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device that you're expecting to use several times a day obviously needs to

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be validated for many plugs Angel bird was able to validate the USB type a

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connector for 3,000 plus plugs whereas micro USB even the most expensive

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connector they could find they were only able to validate for around 350 so think

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about that when you're choosing an external drive so anyway our use case

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scenario I thought we were going to use the separate drives remember these are

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two separate drives inside two separate USB controllers two separate everything

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they're basically bolted together I thought we were going to use them for redundency but we ended up using them

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more for organization so team a used the purple drive and Team B used the black

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drive and because it's fast enough we were able to use this as a working copy

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so the angel bird could be kind of tossed around the room passed from

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person to person if you needed to work on a project rather than copying to the

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computer working on it copying back to the computer that way everyone had the

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most up to to date versions of whatever it was that we happened to be working on

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the drive does run a little bit warm but that's to be expected so much like the

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HTC1 versus Galaxy S4 conversation where the Galaxy S4 doesn't feel as hot in

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your hands and doesn't make your palms wet but the processor throttles

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sometimes whereas the HTC1 feels warmer but is actually running cooler that's

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the kind of situation you get with an aluminum construction like this now

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other than that the only real advantage that we found was just in terms of the

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ruggedness being able to carry it around with us trans for footage being able to

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toss it back and forth not having to worry about it breaking um that that's

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pretty much it so I think it comes down to the conversation of guys do you think

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that SSD based external storage is at the point yet where You' think about

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investing in it bearing in mind it's much more expensive than mechanical

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based external storage or is it still at the point where you look at it and you

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go that's a very Niche product I'm not interested in that even if it is fast

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enough to work off of directly attached to the computer and even if it is more

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rugged and robust than a hard drive based solution so thank you for checking

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out my followup on the angel bird SSD to

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computer videos and I think we're pretty much done here