The Fastest Tiny Drive in The World
Oct 17, 2025
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Alright, so I'm kind of amped about this product in front of me
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Uh, yes, I'm a little bit weird. I get excited about strange things
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This, no different. I've been working with big files, large files, for a long time now
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If you're in a video world at all, then you are familiar with this. Particularly if you get into the ProRes type of video file formats
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You get used to the idea of projects being hundreds of gigabytes
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in some cases it could be like a terabyte i know it's it's it's wild now of course there's other
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people out there who use a lot of storage themselves and are constantly transferring
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files and so forth but in the video world specifically that's the one i'm familiar with
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and it can be a major headache transferring stuff around so when you see something like this a
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product like this all of a sudden you can get a little bit pumped you can get a little bit amped
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This is an NVMe SSD inside of a tiny little rugged chassis
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And this thing, the Lacie Rugged SSD Pro claims to give you transfer speeds up to 2800 megabytes per second
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2800 megabytes per second. Now that's a crazy speed. If you have never experienced Thunderbolt 3 speeds, this is the type of thing you can come to expect
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This, in some cases, can help perform people's internal storage inside of their laptop
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The other crazy part for me, because I've been playing around with these gadgets for so long
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is how to get those type of speeds in the past. You would have to have some giant RAID storage device
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A huge multi-unit hard drive situation to get that type of speed
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Not something you could fit in your pocket. Now, obviously, with those storage solutions, you have redundancy
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You don't have that here. It's all in one place. But still I want to test this out. I want to see just how fast it is
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I'm gonna I'm gonna run a speed test on it and I'm gonna transfer some gigantic files
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So we can see what it's all about high performance external NVMe SSD using Thunderbolt 3
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This is the one terabyte model It does come in a two terabyte version as well, but of course the cost escalates now
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This is a competitive marketplace. This isn't the only player in the super fast tiny little drive space
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It's just the one that was most interesting to me because it's rugged. It's one of the smallest even though it's still rugged
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It's bus powered. It's got some attributes that I really like. Oh also, this is one of the only ones out there that is backwards compatible to USB 3.1
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So a lot of the other Thunderbolt 3 drives that exist will not function on computers that only support USB or even maybe if you wanted to bring this thing to like a game console or something like that transfer game files quickly those are only going to support USB 3
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So you can do that with this one. Extreme water resistance, IP67 rated, protection from immersion in water, also dust resistant
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You want to, look, your files matter to you. You spend a lot of time accumulating those files
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Whatever it is that you make or you store, get a little extra protection over there
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Shock resistance for drops up to three meters, it's kinda nice, you slap it off the table
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Don't slap it off the table, but in case you did. And pressure resistance
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You can run over it with a two ton car, I'm not gonna do that in this video. I'm more interested in the speed in this video, but
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they're putting it on the box. 4,410 pounds you could run it over with, that's pretty good
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Again, I misplaced the knife. My goodness, how? How do I keep misplacing this knife
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It's the official Unbox Therapy knife that I keep misplacing. And I'm still using it and it stays sharp in case you missed this this was a collaboration
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Between myself and stat here you guys actually have been making really nice pocket knives for a while
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It's a special limited edition that we did and there are a few left on Amazon
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I'll drop a link in the description if you want to pick one up it comes with a cool little
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Samurai storage spot and if you didn't notice it actually looks like a samurai sword and if you want to get these
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limited color options they're only available in the unbox therapy version with the gold blade and all the rest of it so go check that out okay some
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paperwork more paperwork lots of look how tiny look at look how tiny my
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goodness it's even smaller than I imagined it's like a couple pairs of
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airpods okay maybe maybe four pairs of airpods now drop protection that's what
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you're gonna want just gives you a little extra confidence in the
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commercially made for this thing, you got the guys, they're on the boat, they got the wakeboarding
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they're sending the drones up, they're not worried, because they have, well, they got the water
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resistance, obviously, I guess, but if you drop it in the lake, you still got to swim down, and
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you want to swim down, maybe they should have made it bright, the old ones used to be bright orange
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in fact, I used to work in a computer shop, I sold a ton of the bright orange Lacie drives
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back when they actually had a spinning drive on the inside, but still, video professionals loved
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the idea of a durable drive like that. Okay, so pretty nondescript, you're like, what is
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that? Well, it's pocketable, that's for sure. The only port you're gonna see on here, a
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Thunderbolt 3 port, and of course, Thunderbolt 3 uses the USB Type-C connector. That's why
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this one is backwards compatible but for some strange reason the vast majority of portable Thunderbolt 3 drives are not backwards compatible so that why you should check this one out look at that they give you a tiny little baby
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Thunderbolt cable which believe it or not this is actually not common
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oftentimes you got to pick up your own Thunderbolt cable now I don't know how
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useful this tiny one is but obviously they expect you to use this with a
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the laptop, in which case I suppose this is useful. And portable was dangerous
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If you're gonna carry it around with you everywhere, then the cable should be easy to carry in your pocket as well
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This is a MacBook Air. Boom. And as you can probably know
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this is a very bizarre way to do this. Look at that, I never, I didn't plan this, I promise
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But as you can see, we have the famous Blackmagic Disk Speed Test
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Now this will test the speed of either your internal or any external storage that you have
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You can set that as the target disk. So I'm going to go ahead and open this up
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This little makeshift, look at this with the overhead. It's all working
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This is going to be familiar to a lot of people. It's cool the way they lay it out too. It's in some sort of, makes it seem like a speedometer
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It makes it seem like you're traveling quickly. Well, you are, but just in drive land
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So to kick it off, let's test the internal storage on this MacBook Air
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This MacBook Air, of course, has internal SSD storage. Very quick, no external connection necessary
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So it's getting that full bandwidth, full throughput. So let's test that out first
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And you can see that's very fast. But of course, the problem here is that you don't..
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Well, for one, you're gonna run out of storage quickly if you try to save gigantic video files to your laptop directly
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And for two, some people get a little bit nervous with the all the eggs in one basket type of concept
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You're throwing all that data in one place along with your OS and everything else. If there was an issue with it, well, you're kind of out of luck
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So most people like to use an external place to store things
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Also, I can't just give somebody my laptop if they're going to work on the video footage
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This little guy over here, I could just, well, I could hand that to somebody. Obviously, there's not much handing off going on right now, 2020 style
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But in a regular environment you could hand this off someone could take it you could stick it in your pocket
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You can stick it in the mail if you wanted you had like a terabyte of data that you couldn't upload for some reason anyway
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Okay, so that's the internal drive you saw that work its way around. What do we have the write speed
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2241 megabytes per second the read speed 1834 now of course if you have a laptop that does not support Thunderbolt 3 this is gonna be a waste of money for you This is a very expensive drive The intent here is that you take advantage of that extra throughput
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If you only have USB 3, then this is overkill. So we're going to select this new target drive right here
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And it's right over here. Let's see. Open and let's run our speed test
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Oh wow, okay. It's pretty close to the internal drive. Actually the read speed is faster than the internal drive
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The write speed's a little bit slower, but it's in the same realm, it's in the same wheelhouse, and you're connected via an external cable
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That's the best part. You can hand it off, you can pass it off, and you have crazy fast speeds
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Now, to put that in comparison, let me quickly grab, I have a..
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So, we've been using these Samsung T5 drives in the studio for a really long time
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They are USB 3 drives, so this is a good option if you want to save a few bucks and you only have access to USB 3
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These are also very quick, but let's do a comparison. We will select that target drive real quick
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So we'll start that up and you'll see, man, it's like one third the speed
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That's still very fast. There's way slower drives out there in the world
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This is the T5 from Samsung, but that's just, you're just limited there by USB, right
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There's only so much that you can do. Now, I know what you're saying. You're thinking to yourself
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Lou, why do you need this crazy speed? Can't you wait a couple of extra minutes or seconds
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It's not just a question of weighting or speed. For example, if you want to record a video file straight to this drive
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you may drop frames. You may not be capable of doing it if you don't have enough speed to support it
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I have a desktop drive over there. It's like 20 times the size of this that I'm currently using
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with the video footage on it while I'm editing, going through the timeline, and so forth
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This thing is faster than that is now. Again, when it comes to the workflow, you can actually see some valid improvements with that extra speed
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Plus, just for the typical transfer, you just, you still feel really cool
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You see the bar just flying across. Look, it's not gonna be for everyone. It is expensive
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If you don't have Thunderbolt 3, you're probably not gonna be interested. If you do have Thunderbolt 3, it's time to start taking advantage of it
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Cause you can move some stuff around real quick. And look, and you can even..
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And that's the best part. It's all so rugged. I'm so... It's all secure on there. There's nothing on there right now
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