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well hello there this my friends is a one terabyte three-and-a-half inch hard drive it runs off a SATA 6 gigabits per second interface and you might find these common among desktop systems and they're still widely available people still purchase one of these drives because they're like super 250 dollars you'll get a one terabyte hard drive no problem now you might recall these type of drives sold in external enclosures about 10 years ago with a SATA to USB interface there require separate power adapters and you know people use these as external storage solutions or external storage drives but now it's 2017 so what's popular well these guys right here portable SSDs look at the size difference now obviously you know really can't compare them because the price wise you know this is four times more expensive than this drive right here but you know being able to toss this around your backpack and just carry it around fit in your pocket is kind of amazing so let's take a look at this right after my system our sponsor explore your future with the cosmos to case and celebrate 25 years of ambition the drive cooler master forward enjoy the familiar yet still forward-looking character the frame with solid aluminum handles it may be the most physical you'll ever get with the computer case but it's all worthwhile or gets creative put any of the 13 storage options that encourage outside the box thinking meanwhile the curve temple glass panels on both sides ensures a lasting impression classically trained but still ready for anything the cool elastic cosmos - let's celebrate the past by building for the future as always let's start with the design because it's a unique one compared to the Samsung t3 and the Pnyx SD there's a mix of plastic and aluminum throughout the body and it feels rock solid in the hand WD claims that it can withstand drops up to six and a half feet but I'm not going to try that because I take good care of my products now price-wise you're looking at $100 for the 256 gig based model bumping that up to 512 runs around $180 and finally the top-of-the-line one terabyte model costs around 360 dollars and that's what we'll be using to run the benchmarks when you compare to something like the t3 from Samsung that costs $400 for the one terabyte variant the WD drive offers a more with $40 shaved off that price point and here's why unlike the p3 that uses a USB 3.1 type C gen 1 standard the passport runs on a Type C 3.1 gen2 interface that means theoretically this drive with one on 10 gigabit per second speeds instead of five but it would be limited to the internal SSDs performance inside the chassis I guess we'll find out about that in the benchmarks on top of that you get a type cd' type-c cable with a standard type a adapter so if you're rocking a desktop or notebook with a thunderbolt port or a 3.1 gen2 type-c port you will be achieving SSD class speeds in an external solution that fits in the palm of your hand do not that it is reverse compatible with USB 3.0 and 2.0 standards now Western Digital has built a solid reputation for themselves in the reliability department and one of them obviously includes taking proper security measures there's a built-in 256 bit AES hardware encryption module and when you set it up with WD security software your data is secure this can come in very handy when you're traveling around with confidential files but it's also cost compatible with both Mac and PC so users who are invested in both ecosystems are not left out of the equation all right so before I proceed to the performance segment of this video I need to quickly mention that I recently switched my editing workstation PC to Rison and the reason I say that is because I tested the Samsung and the Pnyx sd's on an X 79 platform which is fairly old so now that I've switched to this new guy right here let's retest all three SSDs okay so starting with synthetic benchmarks just like our last comparison I fired up crystal de smart and tested these drives by setting the number of tests at five and a file size of one gigabyte the results do speak for themselves the passport outperforms the PNY and the p3 averaging read speeds at 490 megabytes per second and writes in the low for 80s the 3.1 gen2 interface is a huge bonus to unleash the internal SSDs true performance so we're not bottleneck by Gen 1 speeds so that's awesome moving on to a todas benchmark a program that tests the drive read and write speeds using incremental file sizes the passport takes the lead once again dishing out well over 490 megabytes per second in both read and buy perform the t3 and PNY Drive are almost neck to neck in this test but still very respectable results from both of them on to some real-world tests I transfer a 47 gigabyte folder packed with 4k videos back and forth between the desktop and the drives so starting with me passport that whole folder took 2 minutes and 36 seconds to transfer to the SSD averaging between 290 to 360 megabytes per second right performing that backwards took a minute and 53 seconds because the read speeds were topping at around 417 megabytes per second that's one of the highest stuff come across on a portable SSD I perform the same task on the other drives and here the results the Samsung Drive completed the right task 5 seconds faster than the WD drive but the Pnyx SD took a whopping 7 minutes to transfer that folder just like what I experienced when reviewing it it definitely has to be a miscommunication between the drive cache and an end but on a positive note the Wii performance on the PNY was excellent compared to the t3 as you can see there was a more than a minute worth of gap between the two but when put against a passport SSD both of them were forced to bow before the new Wii performance King my second test involved another folder transfer consisting of After Effects lock files thumbnail projects Excel documents and a few videos the overall size of that folder was sitting around 5 gigs so that took about 20 seconds to transfer to the passport SSD averaging around 300 megabytes per second right performing that backwards took half the time because the read speeds were topping at around 1.5 gigabytes per second at the beginning but then it dipped to 30 megabytes per second during small file transfers for just a second and then it picked up right away till 500 megabytes per second upon completion now my desktops local Drive is an RD 400 from host lazy so that sudden peak in 1.5 gigabytes per second must have something to do with the way how the storage controller handles queue depth this was also fairly evident when testing the other drives as you can see the time it took to complete the transfer back and forth were exactly the same among the three my final tests involved rendering a one-minute 4k video using Premiere Pro CC 2017 and set the destination to the respective drives per render the results only a two-second difference between all three with the WD passport SSD taking the lead it's honestly not a huge deal even when rendering larger projects like this seven-minute 1080p video I've scaled to 4k the difference isn't that huge between the drivers be ready for X 299 with as Rock's flagship gaming eye 9 motherboard the world's first to feature a quantity at 10 gigabits per second LAN port for extreme bandwidth a 13th based power designed for smooth power delivery and reliable overclocking and of course USB 3.1 type C that can also charge your devices of up to 36 watts more info in description below so I'm going to leave you guys on this note the Western Digital my passport SSD is a fast drive in fact it normally costs less than a Samsung t3 but it outperforms the t3 in terms of repr formance so if your day-to-day tasks to rely heavily on that process pick the WD trot it's a much faster solution the USB 3.1 gen2 interface is so refreshing to see on a portable SSD not just because of bragging rights but it eliminates the bottleneck when the SSD is trying so hard to dish out those read and write numbers so what do you guys think of the passport SSD from Western Digital are you a fan of the design plus what do you think of its performance compared to the Samsung t3 and the Pnyx SD leave a comment down below I need or with hurricane X thank you so much for watching make sure to subscribe for more similar content and we'll see you in the next one