ULTIMATE External Storage Guide! (Which One Should You Get?)
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2024
- At some point you're going to need external storage for your Mac - whether it's a hard drive, SSD (Solid State Drive), or even a NAS (Network Attached Storage). In this video I go through and explain the top 3 external storage options available right now, their pros, cons, and features, and which is the right choice for you.
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00:00 Introduction
01:02 Sponsor
01:30 Read and Write Speeds
03:52 Storage Capacity
05:06 How Much Do They Cost?
05:56 Portability
06:37 Which Storage Device Should You Get?
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💻 EXTERNAL DRIVES I RECOMMEND:
⮕ Seagate HDD: geni.us/machardrive
⮕ Samsung T5 Portable SSD: geni.us/t5drive
⮕ My 6 Bay NAS Enclosure: geni.us/synology6
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Seagate gets a bad rep compared to WD, but I've had a pretty good experience with their internal and external drives. Only ever failed due to age or due to a critical error in the OS I was running while transferring data. Got a 750GB external that's probably 10+ yrs old that's just now showing cautions in CrystalDiskInfo. Another 4TB drive I've bought about 3 yrs ago which has C5 and C6 cautions, which is only due to my OS crashing while transferring data. Another 4TB around 8 yrs old that's still showing good.
Your channel is really awesome for someone who just bought an M1 Mac lol
Glad you enjoy it!
Yep
I remember when this channel had 7.3k subs.. hard work and quality videos made this channel super fast growing... All the best
No one talks about durability.
Which one has the better chances to keep data in 10, 20, 50 years ?
That should be one of the main concerns regarding external storage
Not all SSDs have similar performance. In fact, they vary wildly, by as much as 100x or more.
For example, Micro Center periodically sends out coupons for free 32 GB USB 3.0 flash drives (flash drives are SSDs).
Their read speed is approximately 50 MB/s and their write speed is approximately 5 MB/s.
If you find some USB 3.0 SSD that is priced low (many are), then expect that SSD to perform accordingly (slow).
As to the chart @2:21, those results are a snapshot of a specific test, and are not a complete representation of the drive's speed.
For example, that chart shows that the T7 is nearly twice as fast at the T5. That is true for the test that was conducted (and we do not know what that test was).
If you test those drives with, for example, a 500 GB write test, the T5 will win, and by a country mile. Why?
The T7 has fast SLC (I believe -- or might be MLC) NAND fabric used for cache. As long as the drive's cache does not get filled, the drive will run at warp speed. But if you write enough data to the T7, without rest, and fill its cache, then the T7 will slow to a crawl, because data will start going to its native NAND fabric, which is probably QLC NANDs, which are slow.
But wouldn't the T5 suffer the same results once its cache runs out?
The T5 will slow down a bit, but not too much. Why? I can only guess that its NAND fabric is faster than the T7's NAND fabric, for the non cache section of the drive.
Also, one of the main advantages of an SSD is that if you hit it from 10 different directions with read and/or write requests, it will not slow down the drive. A mechanical drive will get noticeably slower if it is being asked to handle multiple, simultaneous requests.
Another advantage SSDs have is that when you plug them in, they become available instantly. Mechanical drives have to spin up.
Also, SSDs do not go to sleep. Mechanical drives do (well, many do, and depending on the drive, you might not be able to disable it from sleeping). And SSDs use less power, unless they are being written to without a break (something Chia processing would do).
Some external drives have an activity light, and some do not. I find the light helpful. If I start a lengthy job and my monitor goes into power saver mode, I do not have to wake it up to know whether or not my job is still running. If the light is flashing, it is still running. If the light is steady, then the drive is idle.
Also, most external drives include a short USB cable -- perhaps 16".
If that is too short, then buy a longer one at the time you are making your purchase (to save on additional shipping costs if you place the order afterwards). And make sure you know what type of USB connection is on both ends of the cable. And also make sure that the cable is USB 3.0 (or higher) certified. If it is not stated, then keep searching. Read reviews to see if people are complaining about the cable.
Cheers!
Definitely would like to learn more about how you approach NAS with video editing and how much that performs differently in comparison to editing off computer's built-in SSD storage
Hell yeah I want that video about your nas, I'm really interested in those machines!
That video on your Synology NAS would be much appreciated. Great content as always, thanks.
Timely! I've been considering a NAS for the "NA" part - I have several computers and it's a hassle to shuffle things back and forth.
This was a great guide! Thank you, recommendations at the end were very helpful.
Thanks for the concise and well produced video! Very helpful. Subscibed 🙌🏼
I've been thinking of this lately thanks for the info
This is exactly what I wanted to learn. Thanks!
please do a video focusing on NAS!! i'm on the lookout for an external storage solution for the upcoming M1 imacs and would love to consider more options
Thank you for posting this video. You have a new subscriber. Keep up the great.
Another great video, keep it going!
Yea definitely would love to see a video about your synology, how do you connect to it, I assume it’s like a server pressing command k to connect to the ip? Debating between this and the LaCie 6big since I don’t need networking. Thanks for the great videos as always!
I’m getting my SSD enclosure soon for my VMs
Very informative and concise! My new go-to tech RUclipsr! Thank you
Bro your channel is so clutch for my m1 Mac
Can't thank you enough for making this video.
good content bro thoughtful titles and thumbanils. love your work❤
A video about your your sinology nas and your editing would be amazing!
I really like your Videos and how you explane things. But I would be really interested in a video, where you install your OS on an external SSD or Thunderbolt Disk, and test if and how well it works to see if this could be an alternative to save up some money.
Informative video, btw what’s the silver (or aluminium) gadget in between your NAS and the MAC ? Is it a TB3 hub for network attachment ? Running off at 10Gbps ?
I would love a video on your NAS setup!
just bought the m1 macbook air
today...will watch your videos for further info..
Please share a detail video on the NAS setup . And which drives you use for NAS.. and another video of editing live via NAS
I'd love to have that NAS setup but it's probably overkill for my needs, so I'll most likely go with that Plugable SSD option. I just need something for my new M1 MacBook Pro. I don't want to use the old WD My Passport external drive that I had been using with my Mid 2010 MacBook Pro.
I use an external hard drive with my base model m1 MacBook air the speed of the hard drive is quite enough for me. This video is very useful to understand storage options. Thank you.
which hard drive you are using? i am also having macbook air m1 base model.
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Awesome video always
What a great informative video
Hey Liam, nice video. I'd love to know if you can use your NAS wirelessly to edit videos in real-time. Thanls!
I have a synology NAS. I highly recommend it.
I would love to see a video editing comparison between external HDD vs external SSD. I'm used to work with usb 3.0 HDD's and haven't even thought that it was a bottleneck lol
I believe 2.0 is 480mb/s while 3.0 is 1gb/s? 3.1 and 3.2 are above 1gb/s so try and use 3.1 or better if possible. I don’t know of any external hard drives that’re faster than 2.0 speeds, even if they have a 3.0 or better usb connector. There are hybrid hdds, but at that point I’d just go with a ssd. I’d personally never use anything that is slower than 1gb/s.
What are the advantages of partition a hard drive rather than just having the computer access certain folders?
Can you edit of your NAS in real time over network or is it only possible via cable? Looking forward to your video about the NAS...
I’m a Mac user looking for a NAS solution for all of my music production plugins, samples, software, etc. Id love to see editing in real-time because I’ve seen people complain about Synology performance on Macs. Are you using AFP or SMB?
Could you maybe make a video on how to get the longest lifespan on my Mac
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Make a NAS video for dummies! Def need to learn more and I’m considering one.
Please elaborate on the network upgrade to 1GbE
Having you considered switching to 2:1 ?
Hello sir! This is your new fan from India, I have been following your video got some picture of which mac I should, And have planned to buy 16gb ram 256 gb storage version mac air, since I have planned to use Etabs software through parallels (win), should I buy extra storage version model or external ssd or base model Mac Pro ( it's costlier in India).
Video on Synology NAS would be great.
When video editing, Davinci Resolve for example, creates huge Cache files. Can these files be stored on SSDs rather than main hard drive? It's one of the things that put me off getting a Macbook M1 256GB version.
Hi, Gr8 Video.
I have found NAS connectivity to be unreliable. I'm currently using a bunch of very large hard drives connected through USB-3. Once I get my M1 Mac mini I expect to use a fast SSD for my primary supplemental storage and to also hook my USB-3 harness to it.
best budget option for holding my steam library?
NAS has another advantage, all of your smart devices in the same network can connect to it, it's basically home-made cloud storage.
Can you make a video how to get 500mps on Synology NAS
So, you're getting those speeds from an HDD based NAS? What RAID configuration do you use?
You give as one reason to get an SSD rather than hard drive external is if you are using it mainly with a laptop. That is my situation -- just curious as why? because of the portablity?
I have an external ssd coming in today, it’s the one from crucial you recommended in a previous video. I’ve been living with 128gb for too long 😭😭
bro I'm thinking between hdd and ssd to use as a backup drive only for photos and videos and I only use phone and iPad Pro . I've heard hdd doesn't work with phone and iPad due to low power connectivity .so do u think samsung t7 shield 2tb would be a good buy for longterm storage?
Did you make another video about your Synology NAS? I'd be interested in what configuration you're using (RAID level, HDDs, SSDs, Memory, etc...)
This video should be coming out in the next 2 weeks!
I want to switch from windows to MacBook air m1. But my external drives have NTFS and not FAT. What can I do when I have the MacBook Air to copy all my files?
What about hot swappable storage solution that is not a NAS?
Amazing that after looking for several weeks I can't find an external storage solution that interested in buying. What's the least worst, least inexpensive solution people are happy with? Ideally I'd like a dual NVME enclosure.
The problem with NAS vs a few USB drives, if someone steals the NAS all your data is gone.
2:22 "Faster is better" no kidding! ... i had no idea!
can i use 20tb hd on the nas enclosure
I won’t get any external storage but I will still watch the video
Found this channel months ago and drooled over the M1 MacBooks. Now that I have my M1 MacBook Air, it is influencing a lot of my purchases. Lol.
My Amazon wishlist is getting bigger.
Can you share how you managed to edit footage from NAS with the speed you mentioned above? Are you using RAID?
You need a fast enough NAS enclosure, with 10GbE adaptor card and at least 4 drives in RAID. I will have a video on it soon!
I think I’ll probably go for an ssd for my macbook
What's a record player? 😉
You forgot cloud drive options, and you didn’t mention about reliability of portable hard drives , if you going to use them make sure you back up regular for Mac users carbon copy cloner is ideal
Interested in NAS video
V good mate where’s that NAS video
I bought a NAS drive (Synology) for storing and watching videos from but find that WiFi is far to slow to use it for that purpose. I was disappointed to find that it doesn't have an option to connect to my Mac mini via USB or Thunderbolt. Do you know if it is possible to physically connect it in some way? The transfer speed is awful right now.
DAS is more feasible for consumer usage.
Samsung T5 1TB costs like USD 200-300 in my country 😞
NASs are insane man
Something I've been pondering is, what's the "cheap man's NAS"? I will just use my own usecase as an example:
I work from a home office with a lot of locally stored files that are integral to my clients, and a drive failure could be - quite frankly - catastrophic. My problem is that I really don't need anything fancy like access through wifi or excessive storage capacity. 4-8tb would be more than sufficient for my needs (8tb would purely be "nice to have", by no means necessary). And I would not mind hooking up the NAS via an ethernet cable or similar to allow for decent read/write speeds. Anything over PCIe 3.0 speeds would be overkill tho.
Essentially I would just need two 2-4tb ssds set up in raid so if one drive fails, the other acts as backup. And this config would be linked directly to the mobo with a cable connection.
When I'm looking at options, they're all extremely pricey and way overkill in terms of features and expandability and size for what I need. Basically even just a tiny bay with 2x4tb nvme drives would do. But at a consumer friendly price. I use my drives for work, but I am no enterprise business owner with unlimited pockets, and forking out near $1000 or more for a drive setup is pretty mad in my mind, when direct drive nvmes can be had with 2tb for less than 150 bucks.
Search "Synology 2 Bay NAS DiskStation" on Amazon or your local shopping website. It's quite cheap, and you'll get access to all the Synology software/benefits etc. You would set up the two drives (either HDD or SSD if you have the extra cash) in a RAID setup where if one drive failed, it wouldn't matter. That's the cheapest and easiest option IMO.
Then you just plug an ethernet cable from the NAS enclosure into your router, and you get access over wifi (can be a bit slow if you don't have Wifi6), or ethernet if your computer is also attached to your network via an ethernet cable. If the latter, you will get speeds around 100MB/s which is fast enough for 95% of people.
@@CreatedTech Thanks for the quick response, appreciate the tips! I will do a little digging into the Synology 2 Bay and see what is available. I'm running a 1gbit fiber connection and desktop with ethernet connected to router. So I guess transfer speeds should be just fine no matter what.
Show NAS video - interested which drives you use in it
Coming soon, but the drives are Seagate Ironwolf
@@CreatedTech thanx
Although the NAS especially Synology user interface is extremely bad IMO. I am really waiting for a next level cloud storage provider with reasonable prices and usability like iCloud.
I'm probably gonna just get a basic external hdd for video editing, cuz I don't have money 😬
If you don’t need speed then there’s no problem with hdds
Up to 1080p a HDD should be fine, but anything above that like 4K definitely get an SSD.
@@CreatedTech Thanks, that's very helpful!
The last one looks more like a UPS, lol
Meanwhile: Linus sticking 8TB M.2s in every build
I'm here from discord.
Ssd is Great the problem with ssd is if you don’t power it up time to time you lose data unlike hdd you power it write and store it but you drop it that is the end of days plus with hdd the moving parts stop working at one point and slow speed but I still would recommend 1 in your collection but the best all round storage that will last 1000 years lol 😂CDR the old school way
Putting your backed up files avalible over the internet via a NAS was a big misstake. Deadbolt hacker group has now targeted users of Qnap NAS and ransomewared all the users files. So please people don't do my mistake. Keep your backups local.
ssd gang
literally nothing to do with a mac
hmm.. yes, 16 x 6 is 80
A Mac is a PC,I assume you mean Windows or Linux when you say "PC"
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Samsung Ssd Only 😊