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the CM Storm sf7 uses a massive 18 cm

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fan to cool your gaming notebook and it adds a four port USB hub click now to

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learn more often I look at an external Thunderbolt drive and I can't really see

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any reason why it had to be Thunderbolt a great example of this would be a

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single drive external drive that's bottlenecked by the drive performance

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rather than an alternative less expensive interface like USB 3 another

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example would be a large multi-drive array device that I'd really rather see

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using a network solution like 10 GB Ethernet like let's get going on that

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standard huh the my passport Pro is an exception here though it has two

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internal drives that can be run independently in raid zero or in raid

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one and it legitimately benefits from Thunderbolt running in raid zero we were

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able to achieve consistent read and right speeds like sustained of about 200

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megabytes per second better than we've ever been able to achieve on usb3

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solution and because Thunderbolt is capable of outputting more power than

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USB it is also able to power up both drives without resorting to an auxiliary

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connector or wall power adapter something that will be a major advantage

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for anyone working on the go in fact it not only doesn't require a separate

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power canable that is to say a connector and a cable integrated it also doesn't

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require you to cart a Thunderbolt cable around with you the cable is integrated

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and wraps around the drive for storage there is one trick with this drive

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though our physical inspection of it reveals that our 4 TB model is extremely

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thick for an external hard drive it actually uses a fan for active Cooling

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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

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wrap it up as we get a closer look at that we see just that cable there is no

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alternative connector such as USB 3 which would have added additional cost

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and bulk to the solution the my passport Pro only works over Thunderbolt which is

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something that will be a deal breaker for many but given how focused this

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product is on Mac users of course they have Thunderbolt who are creative

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professionals I mean the drive utility program is only even available on Mac I

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doubt most people looking at this drive will even notice and anyway using dis

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part to manually delete the factory created Mac compatible partitions then

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creating our own structure gives us all the same functionality on a Thunderbolt

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equipped PC you'll just need to import the foreign Drive configuration in dis

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manager whenever you plug it into a new pc piece of cake now I mentioned

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creative professionals before and I guess that leads pretty well into the

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who is this product for segment of the video creative folks who are on the go

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this thing was practically made for us when shooting raw video footage or even

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prores sometimes we can easily fill up our dual 512 gig SSD recorder solution

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and having something that can offload very quickly using a notebook without

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needing to fuss about with power adapters or whatever else something with a lot of capacity is a huge Boon the the

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sooner we can get back to shooting the better because you've got actors and and

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helpers just sitting there when you're offloading footage EA would have been

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just as good for this and I really wish it had taken off as a standard but due

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to its specialized storage only nature non-powered standard configuration and

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fragile connector it was not meant to be so Thunderbolt will have to do the trick

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all right so far so good on the Dual Drive Pro but what about the other

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Solutions out there this is by no means the first dual external drive in fact we

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have an angel bird SSD tog go twin that's fulfilled a similar need for us

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safe fast portable storage for almost a year but there are some differences

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while it's less likely to be damaged in transit it's extremely expensive lower

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capacity and doesn't support trim so performance has actually gotten

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significantly slower since we first started using it which is something that

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can be addressed by secure erasing it but it's not always convenient when you

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got footage on it from this project than another project or whatever else there's

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also the inade CR h212 enclosure which

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is only about 50 bucks plus the cost of driv for something that's functionally

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pretty similar so it is less expensive but it only uses USB 3 so performance is

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lower it needs to be plugged into two ports for adequate power and it lacks

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the cooling solution used by the WD drive and there are also in the Amazon

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reviews also some complaints about the overall build quality of it in this one

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no complaints whatsoever so the only thing left now is the conclusion and for

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that I'll give you the rundown of how my team plans to use this raid zero in a

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portable drive is just plain stupid in my opinion yeah I ran some benchmarks

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for you before but in my mind that's only really useful from a theoretical

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standpoint The Raid one speed reality check kind of sucks when you've been

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benchmarking in raid zero but for a drive that's intended to be chucked into

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a gear bag and carried around and jostled around with other equipment no

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matter how well it's built the likelihood of failure is so much higher

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than a drive that sits in your computer tower and never gets moved that that is

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really how I would recommend actually using it that way you've got two terab

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well with the 4 terab model you've got two terabytes of overall safe storage

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that's going to be there even in the event of a hardware failure which if

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you're backing up a project for example it's going to be something that's pretty

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darn important so thank you guys very much for watching this video like it and

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teleprompter it's a sad State of Affairs

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we should see if I can do a video blindfolded to see if I can even

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function without the teleprompter we'll just go like electricians

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tape thank you for watching this

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the last 10 seconds of it this hurts