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N9 years ago I reached out to Lexar trying to get my hands on this super

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cool modular card reader Tower dock thing called the workflow hr1 they

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didn't reply to me so ultimately I bought not one but two of them which we

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used for years they're super cool you can use the modules either inside the

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tower which can be either USB or Thunderbolt or separately if you need to

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take them on the go only one small problem Lexar totally abandoned this

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product line is what I used to say not only did Lexar send me the brand new

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workflow but they actually sponsored this video checking it out and this

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thing looks absolutely sick now instead

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of being Thunderbolt 2 or USB 3 it is

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Thunderbolt 4 instead of having four docks it can support up to six docks

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plus a couple of USB ports one type a

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one type c in the front and it even supports daisy chaining up to six of

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these devices according to the Thunderbolt spec including having

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displays in line with it and whatever else it even supports USB power delivery

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so if you have say for example your MacBook hooked up to it or something

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like that you can charge your MacBook at up to 140 WS while you use it we'll get

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to that in a second first I want to take a closer look at this bad boy there's

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our 140 W charging there's our Thunderbolt port and there's our

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Thunderbolt daisy chain there's a cooling fan there's a cooling fan intake

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I guess we've kind of covered it oh no we haven't right not all of the bays at

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the front are made equal two of them are 40 gbit per second so that's the maximum

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speed supported by Thunderbolt 4 and then the other four are 10 gbit per

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second and the savy among you are probably going to have figured out that

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you're not going to be able to saturate all six of these bays at exactly the

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same time the construction is aluminum feels quality especially when you

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compare it to the plastic construction of the old one and oh I'm curious will

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the old modules oh nope not even close

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uh let's see what else comes in the Box okay professional workflow customize

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your needs with versatile modular readers and and portable ssds we've got

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support for dual slot SD UHS 2 a regular

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SD and a Micro SD UHS 2 uh portable ssds

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in two and 4 terab flavors as well as support for CF Express 4.0 type A and

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type B with backwards compatible for CF Express 2.0 we also got a Thunderbolt

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cable they say this is a is this a a gan brick yeah okay 140 W Gan brick and then

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adapters that I don't need for international plugs yep that's a short

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cable Thunderbolt 4 has some issues

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we've overlooked something haven't we in the Box you might have noticed

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there isn't a single module yeah just

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like the old one it's not a a cheap solution the SD card module is going to

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cost you around 50 bucks the CF Express modules are around 100 bucks and the

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ssds are $300 and $500 respectively for

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the different capacities all right and in terms of

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included accessories they just come with a USB cable and then the little modular

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reader itself so just like the old generation one you can use USBC and use

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it as a standalone device or you can

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slot it right into our reader here is it Direct agnostic can I just put it in

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either way I want oh yeah okay cool it seems to not care but all the text goes

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this way so I'm going to keep it consistent oh this is a 40 GB per second

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module cool let's put it in that side oh okay I got a 2 tby SSD let's go ahead

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and throw that in a 40 GB per second module CF Express is so fraking

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expensive this CF Express type B card one terabyte is

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$1,000 and I don't think Lexar is even that out of touch with the market

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reality for this one like it's just these are these are really expensive

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cards do I wonder why that standard hasn't really taken off Christmas party

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yeah yeah for sure buddy one last thing they also include a type A to type c

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adapter in the Box all right I'm going to put my type A in the other 40 GB per

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second slot there we go do I have a micro SD yeah oh there was one that was

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still in box that I could have unboxed all right well there you go that's the

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unboxing experience man did they send over all of this media for this

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video dude do they know that I would have done this for not the sponsorship

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for just like this really expensive media cut that cut that all right got

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all the Lexar baby dude what you can

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have 36 card readers on a single port

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not to mention that some of them are dual like SD and micro SD ones

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ridiculous okay so some of these have some stuff on them right hey look at

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that all footage 472 gabes okay here we

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go 23 gigs let's go good gravy

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2.6 gigabytes that's with a big b

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gigabytes per second we are moving around 10 of gig files just like they

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are nothing what kind of speeds are we going to get on our SD cards let's try

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let's try copying one of these files to our SD card uh let's go with our

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fullsize SD not bad not bad 20 200 200

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and something megabytes a second dude I know for those of you who don't care

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this is not going to be that exciting but for those of us who do care being

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able to move footage around quickly and seamlessly is a huge deal there you go

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there you go see that the big number is off the graph now so we can actually see

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the SD card transfer now let's say that we wanted to transport some footage back

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with us okay so we've got that what was that like a 30 gig file or something

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like that on our SD card uh it's pretty typical for us to carry something back

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if the camera operator is traveling separately or to make two copies so if

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two people are traveling each of them has has one and using a portable SSD

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like this is a really good way to do that so I'm just going to rip one of my

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uh CF Express card readers out I'm going to throw that SSD in there and then I'm

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going to copy from my SD card to my portable SSD sorry it was 15 gigs 15

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gigs she's cooking at around 240 250

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megabytes a second which is about what we'd expect for a v90 SD card of course

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that's not as fast as this SSD can go but we'll wait until this is done first

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now let's try pulling off of our our CF Express type

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B and throwing that onto our

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SSD man this makes me wish we did shoot on CF Express I don't want to pay for CF

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Express but boy do I ever like the speeds like yeah just casual 850

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megabytes a second no problem we shoot

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that uh we shoot Tech link on them we shoot TechLink on CF Express why in just

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speed oh for exactly this reason because

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TechLinked is edited and uploaded the same day it's shot every second count so

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sitting and waiting you know 10 15 20 minutes for inest not really an option

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especially when you can do it instantly like this all right now let's take one

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of those files let's take our 23 gig file and copy it off of our SSD onto our

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desktop okay it looks like this SSD will do anywhere in the neighborhood of

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around 850 to 900 megabytes a second whether

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we're reading or writing that's a little shy of what Lexar said we might be able

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to in the real world but still fast enough that you are able to move footage

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around extremely quickly Lexar wanted us to point out that the SSD is ip68 water

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resistant and comes with a 5-year warranty and the rest of the modules

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come with three-year warranties and include appropriately rated USBC cables

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you can't take that for granted anymore so the CF Express ones come with 40 GB

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per second rated ones and the SD ones come with 10 GB per second rated ones I

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for one am super happy to see this back

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I know that this won't be that meaningful to some of you but to me it

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is a pretty freaking big deal it might

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be too much to ask but I'd love to see Lexar expand the lineup I mean it's just

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Thunderbolt and USB ports so conceivably

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nothing would prevent someone from you know creating a a third-party USB

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accessory USB hob or something like that that plugs into it if it's sitting on

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the desk right next to your computer or uh a carrier sled that allows you to put

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an m.2 drive in and then just kind of close it up and pop it in there I mean

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the guy is kind of the limit when it comes to modular stuff like this just

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got to see the ecosystem be built out and don't make me wait 9 years for an

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update it's not cheap but it is something that as you guys can see I

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mean it wasn't cheap last time if you have the workflow for it it can be worth

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it even though it's uh what is it $600 for the dock this time around yeah like

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I said like I said before not cheap but

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uh definitely cool thanks Lexar for for sponsoring

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this video and sending over these goodies thank you guys for watching

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