The BEST External Hard Drives for Video Editing & Storage – SSD, HDD, RAID & CLOUD
The BEST External Hard Drives for Video Editing & Storage – SSD, HDD, RAID & CLOUD
This week we give you the top tips and key intel on the BEST External Drives for Video Editing. This includes our favourite SSD, Desktop HDD, RAID Drive, affordable portable Hard Drives and opinions on Cloud Drives.
Extreme SSD 1TB: https://geni.us/tzfjEx
Extreme SSD 2TB: https://geni.us/hQ5tzU
Seagate Desktop HDD 8TB: https://geni.us/oSvz
Seagate Desktop HDD 10TB: https://geni.us/LkKNdGK
WD MyBook DUO 24TB RAID: https://geni.us/MwZv
WD MyCloud 8TB: https://geni.us/53yFU
Rugged Lacie Portable HDD 1TB: https://geni.us/GOr1y
As well as our recommendations, we summarise the top 4 things you need to think about when choosing an external drive. Like did you know that a classic Hard Drive should have a faster RPM than 5400 for smooth video editing?
We currently edit videos with Final Cut Pro and these are our top choices of hard drives for an optimal editing experience.
The BEST SSD – 1:55
Desktop Hard Drive for Storage – 3:40
Our RAID Back Up Storage – 4:26
Affordable Portable Hard Drives – 5:48
Our thoughts on Cloud Storage – 6:40
Let us know in the comments if this helped your search for the best external drives for Video Editing. Let us know what are your favourite HDDs and SSDs – we are always searching for the best gear.
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Enjoyable video! I have a question though. How long have you had the Seagate 8TB hard drive and how has it held up so far? Some reviews on Amazon said it stopped working after 3-11 months. Other reviews said it became unusable after it gets filled up halfway. I hope those are rare occasions. Would like to know your experience with it so far. x
Perfect! Getting back in the game after a 6 year hiatus and you covered everything. Ty!!
Fun intro!!!!!
Dudes your videos are GREAT!
she looks like Taylor Swift
I love this thank you so much for this!!!!!!
the sandisk drive is my favourite as well, i wish i spent the extra to get 1TB! i got the 512GB one, and i wanna buy more XD
Great way to go over the different types and usage. Just started my channel and ran out of storage space quickly. Doing some research and came across your channel. I picked it cause Im for helping out small channels. SO lets help each other out and subscribe.
I agree with the ssd / hdd view on editing and storing. However, I’ve just got a G-RAID HDD 7200rpm and speeds are approaching 500MB/s. I’m going to try editing 4k directly from it. It was pricey, however, not as pricey as SSD – as in £ per TB. Thanks for sharing. Graham
Awesome video! Very great information!! Harddrive space goes faster then we all wish.. haha
best intro ever!
Good sense of humor! Thanks for info. I’m using Ipad. I’ll check your other vids to see if you have info on that.
Does the WD work on linux?
Okay I’m not sure if I’m understanding correctly. I film on my IPhone and have a YouTube channel I edit on my computer. What’s the best option for me that’s cheap ?
Nicely done, really entertaining and fun vid with loads of useful information. Thanks
Don’t know if all Seagate is crap but I’d never buy their products again, I’ve got a full 2 T and have found no way to read the files, might as well have plugged in a pack of smokes.
I have a WD super easy to use, no problems at all.
I disagree, I find reliable storage solutions to be quite enticing.
Thanks for the info as I’m starting to fill up drive space quickly!
thanks for the info,..
Ooohhh i loved the intro😍
Myself use to use large external hard drive for storage until it failed and lost all most of my video archive . Have now changed my approached to this now by having several mechanical small capacity hard drives using a usb3 docking station with all my drives labelled up with an up to date catalogue list of contents . Some important data has been duplicated if one drive fails. The good thing is now most of the time the drives are in storage not powered up so less chance of wear and tear and haven’t lost any data to date .western digital blue drives have proven to be very good .Now have a large collection of drives, most are used drives all scanned and checked for errors and has saved me a small fortune .SSD Drives are good and expensive but wear out very fast with continuous writing large files .Only use ssd for the windows operating system, all editing is done by usb docking with external western blue mechanical drives also makes it easer to save the original masters.
Quite helpful, thanks
As I am trying to just be helpful, please take this comment as such. The problem is you guys aren’t using the Westem Digital drives as intended. I believe the cloud drive is made to work in NAS format. It is a great final backup and is something you can put at home and have your computer remotely backup to in your downtime. The duo drive, being used in raid 0, is great for video editing by itself but not better than the Sandisk ssd. You can backup your projects faster onto it than that Seagate since it can run at around 240 or so MBps, also making it a great final resting place as well if used in Raid 1. The other WD backup drive would be better for photo backup or children’s schoolwork.
Hello! I am a beginner and pretty new to all this. Do you think as a beginner you could use the Lacie rugged for both editing and storage? Im filming on 4K with filmic pro on my iphone and editing on premier pro on my Mac.
It ain’t sexy but it’s necessary! Ridiculous how quickly these drives fill up! Thanks as always guys 🙂 nice and concise.
That was one of the funnest intro’s ever. Subscribed.
I need to get my laptop fixed I do most of my stuff on my mobile and it takes a very long time to procces videos it does ma box in nice video 😜😜🎶🎶
This is so helpful. I had no idea how to even begin looking into storage but my video footage is definitely getting to a point where I need it 😂
Hahaha! Wow, that intro. Love it. Definitely sexy.
This was so, so incredibly helpful. Dry material CAN be made interesting. Thank you!
Yesssss. Why you so salty? 😂
Thank you for this, very beginner friendly! All the other videos I looked at left me so confused!
oh man .. i didnt need a new hard drive, but after that intro i think i need such a sexy thing 🙈🙈
Nice video, great job of making a dry subject interesting!! Gotta get myself one with the shock protector… keep it up!
Backblaze cloud storage, so cheap and unlimited!
Thank you so much for this. Brilliant tips. I’ve written them down. New subcriber here
Great video, thank you!
This video was surprisingly super fun to watch! haha I learned a lot with how easily you broke down information that really confused me in a bunch of other lengthy tech YouTube vids. I’m subscribing to see more ~creative~ intros and casual conversations about tech dense topics and more 🙂 thank you!
Do these work on linux as well?
25 seconds is the killer 😂😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥
I use the popular Samsung T5’s to shoot and edit (yep I dont actually move the source footage) but I back my footage up on portable cheap 5TB HDD’s. So no need for fast rpm to edit just edit off the ssds. :))
Subscribed for the B-roll. Stayed for the information! 🤘🏼
Where are the links??
1 x X = 8 => X=(8/1)=8. Jokes aside; love this, and you! Thank you for the helpful video!! I’m going to cycle to Bali and need something to store video on. No need for fast transfer speeds. What is tho needed is some relatively good durability… Also, I have a tight budget. Do you guys think an SSD is a good investment, or would an HDD suffice?
F MEEE Like just because the intro got me feeling a certain way! lol Where do the files ACTUALLY go to die though? I’m looking to get something like that to free space on my Lacie 4tb rugged. Looking into the Seagate as my ‘cemetary’ hard drive