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excellent I'm doing a video on a flash drive but wait this is no ordinary flash drive it's the Corsair Flash Voyager GTX 256 gigabyte and I don't even want to call it a flash drive anymore I want to call it an external SSD which is pretty much what it is since it uses a face on s9 controller and runs at speeds that will put any flash drive you currently own to shame let's go through some of the flash voyager gtx is bonafides before i move into a video editing demo i want to point out that this is a new version model CM fvy GTX 3 B there was a version without that B at the end that released last year and but that one's dumb and this one's much better ok this one's just newer and has some new features but hopefully it's obvious that this is a USB 3.0 Drive which is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0 of course will also work with Windows Mac OS 10 and Linux systems with no driver installation necessary it's got a 5 freaking year warranty which is nice a redesigned zinc alloy housing which gives it some considerable heft for its size and it also aids in heat dissipation I will warn you guys that this drive heats up a little bit when it's in use it's not going to burn you by touching it or anything but I can see why Corsair essentially made this housing into one big metal heatsink physically it's not the largest USB drive I've seen but it is a bit wider than some so it could block some neighboring ports depending on how they're laid out on your desktop or laptop PC there's a blue LED drive access indicator light at the other end which is thankfully not blinding but there's also a keyring slot which seems to get the job done I will say that a couple of nice to have add-ons the Corsair might have included here would be a small USB extension cable for systems with cramped port spacing and some kind of strap or cord to retain the cap losing the cap for a USB Drive is an egregious pet peeve of mine so that would be nice to have speed though that's really what this drive is all about and Corsair is making some hefty claims here 450 megabytes per second reads and 360 megabytes per second writes based on their testing with a tow 430 megabytes per second reads 190 megabyte megabytes per second writes that's with crystal disk mark that's really fast so I'm going to run some of my own tests to confirm those radical numbers I also want to show you guys what I'll actually be using this drive for actually to replace this this right here this is for editing on the road this has been my solution for a little bit of a time now this is basically my sort of trusty USB 3.0 to SATA adapter connected to an intel SSD when i edit on the road with my laptop i like to have my raw video files on a separate drive from the operating system and the premier cache drive which runs off the laptops internal SSD my adapter based external solution does work but it's not quite as portable and i'm constantly afraid that I'll break the SATA connectors on the 2.5 inch SSD because I'm 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click the sponsor link in this video's description or visit linda.com slash paul and after a random transition to a quick shot of nori asleep on the couch it's time for some coffee table benchmarking that's the best kind of benchmarking right so here's what I'm going to be doing as I wanted to double-check Corsairs numbers they're listing on the package for this drive and then I also wanted to sort of give some real-world comparisons between what it can do what I usually use it for or what I what I intend to use it for and if that if it actually makes what I'm doing better I hope all that makes sense alright so for comparison I have of course the Flash Voyager GTX which is which is right there okay nice and pretty I'm not going to be comparing this one this is the flash voyager GS it's actually like just arrived honestly like as i was setting up for this so this one is a little bit slower not quite as fast as a GTX still up to 295 megabytes per second reads and up to 290 megabytes per second writes depending on we're using to test it of course and this is a 512 gig one so if you guys are interested in capacity maybe or speed but not quite as much speed as a GTX the GS is also available that's another option but for comparison i'm going to be throwing in the flash voyager GT right there the USB 3.0 version that's a 64 gig one and i've been using that for some time now it's a very fast drive but not as fast as the GTX is supposed to be now I'm going to be doing like the straight up crystal this mark and Acho benchmarks on these two drives right here and then I also ran for just for a basis in comparison a test on my internal SSD that's the Plextor m5 pro as you might be able to see right there and this is direct-attached serial ata so this is going to show you kind of some of the limitations you get when you're going external with like a USB 3.0 as opposed to internal SATA so this is like SATA read rev three or so 523 megabytes per second reads 460 megabytes per second writes that's about what anyone should expect whether you're talking about a desktop or a laptop drive so I'm going to run through some screenshots that I took here really quick we're going to start off with a toe this is just running at the standard settings so queue depth is four it's running transfer sizes of 0.5 all the way up to 8 megabytes and you can see all the results right here remember it lists these in kilobytes not megabytes so for instance 322 here is about 322 megabytes per second 460 is about 460 megabytes per second we're supposed to hit 450 on the reads and 360 on the right so we are getting up to 460 on the read so that's definitely achieved there for the writes we're actually hitting about 322 so not quite up to what it said on the box however this is not a benchmarking system this is a laptop that has use and if I went ahead and gave this like the best possible scenario I'm guessing I could I could coerce it up to get up a little bit higher but apart from that I wanted to show some comparisons here so let me jump over and at least do my best attempt to do that so here's looking at the GTX the Voyager GTX on the left and the internal Plextor m5 purr on the right this is not a fair comparison m5 pro performs much better again because it's an internal drive and all that stuff I said also keep in mind the scale on the right goes all the way up to a thousand so yeah we can basically see here's what you might expect for an internal drive here's what you're seeing for this external drive still very good performance overall but let's give it maybe a bit more of a fair comparison here so let me jump over to my Voyager GT results and we'll put that up side-by-side so here you can see this scale by the way goes up to 200 on the right and this scale goes up to 500 on the left so here you can see the Voyager GT which had a much more reasonable for a flash drive about a hundred and ninety megabytes per second reads was the highest that got up to rights didn't even get up over a hundred so we hit 85 megabytes per second most and that is definitely one of the limiting factors for external drives like this so here we can see a very vast difference in read and write speeds going from the Voyager GT to the Voyager GTX just as expected next up here's a look at crystal disk mark again the Voyager dcx results are on the left side there and you can see the reads getting up to about 400 megabytes per second the writes here peaked at 180 megabytes per second and that is again just shy of what we saw in the retail box which for crystal this mark was claiming 190 megabytes per second on the rights and about 430 megabytes per second on the reads reads seemed to suffer a little bit more in this test as well but again on the right I've got the Plextor mm5 Pro which is an internal drive which isn't a fair comparison but just to give you guys an idea of what you could be seeing here so looking at the Voyager GT numbers again we can see where the GTX kind of shines and that is with the reads going from 150 up to 393 the writes go one from 73 to 191 79 and then especially if you look down here at stuff like your rights in the queue depth 32 area like oh my gosh vast vast difference here and 4k numbers are very important don't don't count them out they're not as impressive as the big sequential numbers and everything but I'm going to show here in just a minute how small file size transfers are very important in lots of situations and my real-world test here is pretty simple basically I have what I consider to be a very challenging thing for Adobe Premiere to do I'm using Adobe Premiere cs6 by the way and that is to load up one of my time-lapse configurations when I do time lapses I usually end up with something or in the 2,000 to 5,000 image count range that I need to load all up into a single project in order to render out a time-lapse and whereas most of my projects which are 1080 and aren't all that complicated and load up pretty fast even on something like a laptop to say nothing of my my desk or my desktop workstations which are pretty powerful I think this is something that I typically see Adobe taking a little bit more time to do and that's because it's dealing with all of those tiny little files so I have one time-lapse project here that I'm going to load up and I'm going to do it four different ways I'm going to do it off of my external SSD right here I'm going to do it off of the internal Plextor SSD I'm going to do it off of the corsair gtx of course and then i'm also going to do it off of the Corsair Flash Voyager GT still thinking still thinking there it is finally there's one more thing I wanted to show you guys in here though before I move on to that final test and that is this little indicator weight right here interphase UAS P that is USB Attached skuzzy protocol not all systems are compatible with that newer system should be if they have USB 3.0 natively but if you're not getting like the Mac's performance out of this Drive that you're expecting it might be because you have an older system that's only compatible with BOTS VOT which is a belief batch folk book only transfer I forget what that stands for but ua @ ua SP came along with USB 3.0 it's faster and it's able to actually use some of the SATA protocol hooks so it's better but I'm happy to say that the drive automatically in immediately just worked as you ESP you ASP when plugged in here I didn't have to do any fancy configuration stuff to get that going but anyway here's what I'm going to do now I have two of these sequences queued up to render two of the exact same time lapse sequence that I've shown you guys before one of them is going to be coming off of the internal drive writing to the internal drive then the second one is going to be picking up everything off of the Voyager GTX but then writing the rendered file to the internal drive so let's see how these two play out run one is finishing up elapsed so far is about three minutes and 22 seconds we are coming down to the wire here again this is from the internally rendered time-lapse and my goodness we have an entire three seconds difference it went from 322 to 325 so my my theory here about how my example it's not my example showing a significant difference one to the other I think was probably limited by the complexity of the project itself I was expecting many small files to give this a bit more of a challenge to work with but the internal SSD being a very fast SSD as it is I think was pretty helpful there and also the fact that I wasn't really doing anything at all in the background so it was able to concentrate entirely on the render however rendering from this external stick was still a little bit faster and you can imagine extrapolating that out to say a much more complex project or say a much larger time-lapse for example this project was about four thousand images ultimately though I think where this is really going to help out is for people who maybe don't have quite as high quality of an inter internal drive going on or if you just have lots of other stuff going on with the system and even though timewise just this example I showed here wasn't the significant difference I think it could make more of a difference depending on what you're doing and I also do like the idea or just the general best practice of having a separate drive from your operating system and to your programs drive to keep your RAW files on and that sort of thing it also means that it's being stored in a separate location too so there you have it folks and if you're interested in other uses for this drive aside from what I've already shown well it's of course great for large file transfers that kind of goes without saying or you could even set it up as a bootable operating system drive for dual boot or recovery purposes I'm sure there's other uses for this drive too so let me know in the comments what you would do with this external SSD aka 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