 When it comes to portable external USB based storage, I have been using different methodologies for a while including some of these hard drives which these Seagate ones from a long time ago used to come with these handy little cases so when you dropped them or potentially didn't drop them it would survive the fall. This actually survived more falls than I would have expected it to completely by accident and it's scuff free because of the fancy case here and all the ones I've had over the years some of them have died. So let's talk about solid state portable storage and there's a couple solutions I want to talk about ones the Sandisk and the other one is kind of a put together solution I think you see the name or ECO or Rocco I'm not exactly sure or ICO and I picked them up on Amazon. So first one we're going to talk about is the Sandisk one terabyte extreme portable external SSD up to 550 megs per second USB-C USB 3.1 this is $169 for one terabyte of storage pretty good deal I bought it just a couple weeks ago on September 16th 2019 and the price is down quite a bit I looked up reviews of this some older ones and it did list for over $300 349 according to Amazon here but yes pretty pricey device and as storage prices have gotten cheaper especially for solid states this is really had a sweet point the two terabyte model does still go for double though it to 49 so it's a little bit more than double to get two terabytes but I do like the setup here with this kind of nice ruggedized external soft touch rubber that it has we'll get to that in a second then I decided to try a different solution as well this is the ad link s71 terabyte MVME I've tested one of these MVMEs it's in my computer and it works shockingly well so I decided hey why not try one in an external USB enclosure and that's this USB enclosure here now for a homemade solution this is surprisingly cheap so we got 3299 for the USB MVME M2 enclosure and 114 44 for this that brings us a total of $147 so it's $21 22 dollars almost less than the sand solution so that's impressive price point that now at 100 under $150 if you have prime shipping on Amazon if or if you can hunt it down somewhere else cheaper you can have a terabyte of solid state storage let's take a closer look at the devices themselves so first we have the sand disk here and it has a soft touch rubber it loves fingerprints it definitely has dust from being put in under my pocket I like that soft touch rubber I like the little hook you can hook it on to something here so you can keep it tethered to you so it's solid and it feels really well made now you only have the one spot USB 3 right here and that's it I don't see a seam in it it doesn't have like an easy way to peel it back so I imagine it's not waterproof it's not dunk proof really but it would survive a little bit of moisture I feel not not based on either claims but it would survive it pretty well because there's not any easy way to get in as long as it doesn't get in there so this is a pretty solid device and I don't doesn't doesn't rattle whatever's inside of here and I didn't want to cut it open it it doesn't sound like it's anything loose now this little bit more delicate of a solution we're gonna take it apart now it just slides you squeeze and slide it and it comes apart to expose the one terabyte NVMe inside of here and it just sets in here that's what the back side looks like the one thing to note is the screw goes through the bottom normally if you're used to putting in an NVMe drive the little nub is sitting up and it screws into it this actually has just a notch that it goes into which caused me to stare at it a second when I first opened the box they also do include a screwdriver to put it together which I thought was pretty cool and it just sets down in here and we'll slide it down like this get it snapped in and I didn't put these on but it does have a couple thermal pads to help lock it in place not probably put those on because when I'm doing the transfers it's not too hot to touch but it definitely heats up so there's definitely some heat but it does snap together and now pretty solid and if you squeeze and slide it comes apart but if you just tried to slide it it doesn't it doesn't slide you have to squeeze to push down to get the little clips on there now the other thing that's pretty neat is the sand is shipped with this this only came with the USB-C to USB-C and USB-C to USB-C in the box just like it said on Amazon this came with a clever solution that's this right here this is a USB-C USB-C and a USB-C USB-A adapter both of them are all 3.1 nice little blue label in there to show you and it just kind of snaps on but it does only go one way and I should did that on purpose to show you it will kind of sort of go in there if you force it but there's tiny little notches on there keep it so it only will lock in place and it does have arrows to point so you can hopefully get these right and like I said if you try to flip it over even the USB-C is universal it has these little protrusions to keep it from going in so that's a handy little cable this definitely added to my collection of things that I keep in my laptop bag but through my testing both of these were solid is for in terms of speed I neck and neck I transferred the same set of files erased it transferred the same set of files copied you know not quite full but of plenty of data kingdom about half full to try to get a real mean average of the speed they didn't seem any different so I'm assuming maybe USB 3.1 is limitation because I wasn't going to assume that this was faster and maybe under certain scenarios this is faster for maybe some random rights but I'm not exact I didn't take the time to really dig into the USB 3.1 spec to figure out where some of those limitations are or try it in different systems but they both do transfer quite fast which is great because compared to transferring things to a standard hard drive having speed like this wow it is a lot faster than standard spinning hard drives but the most important part is creating data that is easily offline is something I need to do a lot where I want to have a solid protected data put this in a safe because I want an offline snapshot or when I travel I create a lot of data or context I have some trip coming up where I'm going to be filming some things and I don't want to just rely on the cards and maybe I don't have the bandwidth because of where I'm going to be to upload it to the cloud so having it on my laptop having it on the card from the camera and having it right here is really handy plus I've tried and you can edit off of this one of the tests I did with was grab and throw some video on there and try to edit the video it's really handy be able to plug this in right to my laptop and away we go at USB 3.1 speed so it's impressive to think that you know a terabyte now is under $150 if you go with this solution here that's just a really inexpensive terabyte solution for portable storage and workable storage from an editing standpoint if you need to edit the footage on your laptop or you know even on my desktop and be able to transfer things I even was it made it really fast when I was creating VMs the other day I can create a VM and then in virtual box on my desktop and then easily just copy the file over to my laptop when I got home really simple to do so so I'll leave links where I got both these on Amazon I like both of them I can't decide which one's better but I will admit for $20 less this does not seem like a bad solution this one feels a little bit more rugged so I guess if you're more rough with it I'm not going to I'm flexing a little bit but it feels like it's a really solid solution I mean it's not going it's it's not like bulletproof here it is not made of some type of really strong metal so yes I feel the flex in it I probably could break it same with this one I mean obviously this is just a light plastic NVMe and in holder here so that's not too ideal but it you know if you drop it drop from a little further it doesn't come apart so far it hasn't but I still might recommend putting some glue on it because it's a little bit apart putting a little bit of glue on it if you wanted to make this a more permanent closure if you're worried about slipping out of your pocket and going somewhere and by the way the soft rubber touch on here as much as I like it I do admit when it goes in your pocket it doesn't come out so it starts to pull everything else on my pocket because it gripped my pocket sliding out the slides in my pocket a little bit easier I don't know if your pockets always gonna be the best place to keep these anyway so I'm just throwing that out there and I mean look to see if I can get these this is I wonder if someone sells this separate I haven't looked for but I do really like this another they have one I'm pretty happy because this is nice so without carrying two cables one cable and one tiny adapter fits in my little bag but good all right like I said leave a link where you can get these and thanks and thank you for making it to the end of the video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon if you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out if you'd like to hire us head over to LawrenceSystems.com fill out our contact page and let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on if you want to carry on the discussion head over to Forums.LawrenceSystems.com where we can carry on the discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general even suggestions for new videos they're accepted right there on our 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