the CM Storm sf7 uses a massive 18 cm
fan to cool your gaming notebook and it adds a four port USB hub click now to
learn more often I look at an external Thunderbolt drive and I can't really see
any reason why it had to be Thunderbolt a great example of this would be a
single drive external drive that's bottlenecked by the drive performance
rather than an alternative less expensive interface like USB 3 another
example would be a large multi-drive array device that I'd really rather see
using a network solution like 10 GB Ethernet like let's get going on that
standard huh the my passport Pro is an exception here though it has two
internal drives that can be run independently in raid zero or in raid
one and it legitimately benefits from Thunderbolt running in raid zero we were
able to achieve consistent read and right speeds like sustained of about 200
megabytes per second better than we've ever been able to achieve on usb3
solution and because Thunderbolt is capable of outputting more power than
USB it is also able to power up both drives without resorting to an auxiliary
connector or wall power adapter something that will be a major advantage
for anyone working on the go in fact it not only doesn't require a separate
power canable that is to say a connector and a cable integrated it also doesn't
require you to cart a Thunderbolt cable around with you the cable is integrated
and wraps around the drive for storage there is one trick with this drive
though our physical inspection of it reveals that our 4 TB model is extremely
thick for an external hard drive it actually uses a fan for active Cooling
and as we get a closer look at that cable by the way this is how it wraps up and that's about how long it takes to
wrap it up as we get a closer look at that we see just that cable there is no
alternative connector such as USB 3 which would have added additional cost
and bulk to the solution the my passport Pro only works over Thunderbolt which is
something that will be a deal breaker for many but given how focused this
product is on Mac users of course they have Thunderbolt who are creative
professionals I mean the drive utility program is only even available on Mac I
doubt most people looking at this drive will even notice and anyway using dis
part to manually delete the factory created Mac compatible partitions then
creating our own structure gives us all the same functionality on a Thunderbolt
equipped PC you'll just need to import the foreign Drive configuration in dis
manager whenever you plug it into a new pc piece of cake now I mentioned
creative professionals before and I guess that leads pretty well into the
who is this product for segment of the video creative folks who are on the go
this thing was practically made for us when shooting raw video footage or even
prores sometimes we can easily fill up our dual 512 gig SSD recorder solution
and having something that can offload very quickly using a notebook without
needing to fuss about with power adapters or whatever else something with a lot of capacity is a huge Boon the the
sooner we can get back to shooting the better because you've got actors and and
helpers just sitting there when you're offloading footage EA would have been
just as good for this and I really wish it had taken off as a standard but due
to its specialized storage only nature non-powered standard configuration and
fragile connector it was not meant to be so Thunderbolt will have to do the trick
all right so far so good on the Dual Drive Pro but what about the other
Solutions out there this is by no means the first dual external drive in fact we
have an angel bird SSD tog go twin that's fulfilled a similar need for us
safe fast portable storage for almost a year but there are some differences
while it's less likely to be damaged in transit it's extremely expensive lower
capacity and doesn't support trim so performance has actually gotten
significantly slower since we first started using it which is something that
can be addressed by secure erasing it but it's not always convenient when you
got footage on it from this project than another project or whatever else there's
also the inade CR h212 enclosure which
is only about 50 bucks plus the cost of driv for something that's functionally
pretty similar so it is less expensive but it only uses USB 3 so performance is
lower it needs to be plugged into two ports for adequate power and it lacks
the cooling solution used by the WD drive and there are also in the Amazon
reviews also some complaints about the overall build quality of it in this one
no complaints whatsoever so the only thing left now is the conclusion and for
that I'll give you the rundown of how my team plans to use this raid zero in a
portable drive is just plain stupid in my opinion yeah I ran some benchmarks
for you before but in my mind that's only really useful from a theoretical
standpoint The Raid one speed reality check kind of sucks when you've been
benchmarking in raid zero but for a drive that's intended to be chucked into
a gear bag and carried around and jostled around with other equipment no
matter how well it's built the likelihood of failure is so much higher
than a drive that sits in your computer tower and never gets moved that that is
really how I would recommend actually using it that way you've got two terab
well with the 4 terab model you've got two terabytes of overall safe storage
that's going to be there even in the event of a hardware failure which if
you're backing up a project for example it's going to be something that's pretty
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