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what's going on guys johnathan here with TLD with my full review and unboxing in the elgato thunderbolt SSD this is completely portable all powered through the center bolt cable so you don't need any external power and as far as the box content goes it's pretty minimum I get the owner's manual and then the Thunderbolt SSD itself you can see it comes in a brushed aluminum kind of design looks good aesthetically kind of pleases the eye now one thing to point out is that the Thunderbolt cable is not included in the box II must buy that separately that's an additional $50 you got a dish out specifically this is the 120 gigabyte model which retails for 429 US dollars they also step up to the 240 gigabyte model which sells for 699 US dollars so this is definitely not cheap as far as the design goes it's built very well feels extremely solid but however as far as the ins and the outs it's very limited there's only one Thunderbolt port which is a little bit of a drawback to me because you cannot daisy chain anything and also I would have liked to see maybe a firewire or USB 2.0 port just in case if you're onto old Mac you want to transfer some information that doesn't have a thunderbolt port so we're going to break this down into the pros and to the cons and see if this thing is worth the money we'll start out with the pros it is completely bus powered so if you're looking for a mobile solution you're not gonna need any external power everything is coming through the Thunderbolt cable also it is completely silent being that it's a solid-state drive inside there are no moving parts therefore you have no annoying loud hard drive noise now as far as the speeds go this is kind of where it draws into that negative area for me they advertise at about 270 megabytes per second as you guys can see from the test results it gets pretty close to that so we're about to 60 to 50 varies from time to time but they do get as advertised now my problem with this is it's nowhere near what we could see with Thunderbolt technology now here we look at a 2 gigabyte file transfer one on a firewire 800 Drive and one on the Thunderbolt SSD drive you can see obviously the SSD is much faster and finally the firewire drive is done so you might think that's pretty impressive but upon opening this up something kind of pissed me off there are four screws one of them was a little hard to get off they really don't want you to open this up I'll tell you why in a second but much my disapproval upon opening up there is an old generation stated to SSD now Thunderbolt is completely capable of speeds much much higher than this so they could have easily used a SATA 3 SSD that's going to get speeds anywhere from the ballpark of around 500 megabytes a second but they kind of cheaped out and use old generation technology you can buy this SSD by itself for about 130 bucks depending on the price so essentially because also the cables not included you're paying about $300 for a little aluminum enclosure which isn't really cool my opinion it is silent it is bus powered it does perform as advertised but I don't think for the money it is absolutely worth it unless you absolutely need a portable bus powered SSD I would hold off on this right now wait for more to come out in the future wait for an enclosure because when the actual enclosures come out you can buy your own SSD much faster than this not worry about opening it up voiding your warranty that was what I was talking about earlier because you can see this nice little message right here pretty much saying by the way now that you opened up your so again I couldn't honestly recommend this for the price hopefully you guys enjoyed the honest review if your film lock being awesome make sure to give this video a thumbs up feel free to subscribe if you have not already make sure to check out our previous video and I will catch you guys later you