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hey how's it going guys this is Dave TV and I never thought I'd do a video on hard drives let alone external hard drives cuz that's some pretty boring but in my search for trying to find a faster workstation for video edits I discovered some really interesting things about external hard drives so I thought I'd share it with you guys here it is so the first thing we need to talk about is who really needs a fast external drive I mean faster drives are always nice but there comes a point where it's not really worth paying money for a drive that you're just gonna use for the occasional backup but there are some cases where you would really benefit from a fast external drive and one of these is when you do video editing because having just one drive for video edits is really bad it doesn't matter how awesome your computer is if you're only using one drive you're gonna stunt your workflow a lot the reasoning is that if you're working on a video you're gonna be reading and writing a lot of data at once and so if you have one drive has to do all the reading and all the writing at the same time so that's not a good thing and to make matters worse if you're on a notebook you can't really add internal storage so currently in terms of affordable or just inexpensive external drives there's only several options there's use be two drives which top out at around 40 megabytes per second and there's USB 3 drives which you can set up and raid but usually you can only get about 150 megabytes per second with those and there are Thunderbolts and firewire options but those are pretty expensive and quite frankly not that much faster but the cool thing I found are these USB 3 drives with something called you ASP which stands for USB Attached scuzzy protocol and that just has acronyms within acronyms but to make it short the drives with you ASP are amazing you can easily get 400 megabytes per second on read and write so you get yourself an SSD like a crucial MX 100 or something and you pick up a you ASP enclosure and you basically have hard drive speeds as fast as in regular internal SSD so for me my render times improves about 5 or 10% nothing crazy but it's still nice but the biggest improvement is during editing so ever since switching over to an external drive that has you ASP to store my media files like the raw footage previewing in 4k doesn't have any stutter anymore so if you're just getting into video editing using a notebook like I am get one of these things your workflow will be so much faster now having an external drive like this isn't only for video editing the same thing applies to photo editing or even games you can store all your games onto a drive with you asp and will run as fast or potentially faster than if you install that on to your main boot drive that's just how fast these drives are and if you want to take it to the next level for portability instead of using a full u asp enclosure i actually purchased a couple of these u asp enabled cables and these guys just plug directly into your hard drive so if you have a pair of these cables you leave one of these cables at work and then you have another one at home and whenever you want you just unplug your drive and bring it around with you it's pretty awesome so hopefully you guys learned a thing or two from that I tried to keep the video short just because it's hard drives right but if you liked it give me some thumbs and if you loved it give me some subs it's been nice I'll see you guys next time