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The hard drive included with your laptop is probably fast, and might even be a solid-state "SSD" drive, but when you need more space, those externals can end up slowing down your programs and processes way more than you might realize. Luckily OWC just came out with the OWC Envoy Pro EX external SSD that's designed for USB-C and is crazy fast. How fast?
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ plugged a variety of different external drives into his brand-new 2019 MacBook Pro for some speed tests. And was darn impressed by the substantial speed advantage of the Envoy Pro EX...
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The fastest external drive you can buy? Let's find out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm trying out this. This is the brand new OWC Envoy Pro EX
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It's an external SSD or solid state drive and it is crazy fast. So it runs on Thunderbolt 3
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which looks a lot like USB-C and in fact the Thunderbolt 3 cable that comes with it looks
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like it's a USB-C cable but it is actually a bit better and has better performance than that. So
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don't get the two confused. It's bus powered so it only needs to be plugged into a computer. You
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don't need any external power source and it's Mac and Windows compatible assuming you have USB-C
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or specifically Thunderbolt 3 on your computer like I do with this MacBook Pro. Now it's actually
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an NVMe solid state drive with MIL-STD-810G drop test certified. It has little tiny rubber feet
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on it so when it's sitting on the surface of something like on your desk then it actually
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is a little bit of a non-slip thing. Very nice. Three year limited warranty yada yada yada right
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You can see it's tiny it's obviously very light but what's its performance like? So to find out
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the first thing I did is I ran a bunch of speed tests but we're not going to actually do that
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first. The very first thing I want to show you is I'm going to go ahead and plug it in and I'm going
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to show you how fast it copies a 1.4 gigabyte file onto the drive and then we'll do a different 1.4
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gigabyte file back onto my main hard drive. So you see it's plugged in via Thunderbolt 3 and I'm
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going to go ahead and just get this screen recording going and hopefully it will show up
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Here we are. I'm going to open up the finder and you can see so I have this one file here in the
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corner called 1.4 gigabyte file pretty ingeniously and then I have another one on the drive already
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and that one's just called big dot file. So let's go ahead and switch on and have a look and see how
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fast things go. First off we're going to go ahead and copy onto the drive. So that's one and you can
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see boom done that's 1.5 essentially gigabytes. That's pretty fast. Now let's do the opposite and
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I'm going to use a different file just to make sure there's no file buffer that it gets to exploit
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and boom done. So I mean this is so fast that it's almost kind of silly to show you a demo
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but hey it's a demo right. So what I did then is that I tried some other drives. So I started out
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with Myla C Porsche design hard drive and then I have a Western Digital My Passport Pro and both of
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these are supposed to be pretty fast but here's the thing I use something called Blackmagic Designs
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disk speed test. It's a free download. It's super easy. Works with Mac or Windows and basically it's
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trying to assess is the drive fast enough to work with all these high-end like video editing
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programs and stuff. And the first one I tried was the LaCie and you can see that it's write
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performance is about 111.8 megabytes per second and its read is about the same at 119.1 megabytes
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per second. Honestly that means that for a fair amount of this hardcore software it's not really
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capable of running it. That's when you see the little X instead of the green check. So then I
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thought all right well I got this Western Digital and this is supposed to be faster. It's certainly
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bigger and it is definitely way the heck heavier. And this is actually a Thunderbolt drive right
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So it has a built-in Thunderbolt cable and everything. Unfortunately it has the wrong
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end so I need to use an adapter and that's going to actually have a performance hit but it does
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pretty well. That gets me 187.9 on write and 171.0 on read. Okay but then I actually get to
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the new one the OWC Envoy Pro EX and you can see for yourself the numbers are screaming fast
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932 megabytes per second run write and 855 megabytes per second on read. That is a factor of
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four or five faster than this which was my mainstay drive. And two terabytes and this small
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Crazy. Now it is a little expensive and you will notice that on the OWC drive in the disk test
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there are a couple of situations where you're running in like 2k against the 10-bit YUV on
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read and write and it's saying it's still not fast enough. Well good news is OWC has a version of the
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Envoy Pro EX for video editing that's even faster. So this is super fast and they have one that's
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even faster than this but honestly for what I'm doing this is just screaming fast and works
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gloriously. I'm really really happy with this. So we need to talk about the price but before we get
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to the price I'm going to ask if you can subscribe to my channel. Really appreciate when you do that
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Cool. Now this is in different sizes and of course the different sizes of different prices
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different prices. Yes they come with different prices. They have different prices. So first off
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OWC Envoy Pro EX 500 gigabyte is a very modest $229. One terabyte is $298 and the two terabyte
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the size I have so much disk space. Yay. Two terabytes is $495. All of it you can check out
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at maxsales.com. If you are looking for a super fast drive then don't just settle with what you
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have. Get one of these. These are rocking fast and if you're doing anything that demands high
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throughput this will speed up your process. So big fan. Definitely worth checking out and with that
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I will catch you in my next video
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