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If You HAD to Buy a New External Hard Drive for Video Editing TODAY…

Matthew O'Brien
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10 min readAug 16, 2023

Choosing the best SSD to get 💩 done ain’t easy. I’m here to help.

I’ve owned a lot of hard drives and SSDs in my years as a video editor…

There’s a lot of talk out there about failing solid state drives. Have you read this article from The Verge about how they lost 3TB of video they had just shot and transferred to a SanDisk Extreme SSD?

Even PetaPixel & ArsTechnica have articles out about how these SSDs are failing so much they can’t recommend them.

This is the stuff of nightmares, folks. 😱

Now I don’t own any of these drives, but I do know others who do and I’ve worked with them a few times as a digital loader on set and I had no issues with them.

But this was a few years ago. Things have changed.

This is the drive that’s causing heartache among video professionals…

And with all this drama surrounding these SanDisk drives — it got me thinking, “If I had to buy a new portable external hard drive right now

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Filmmaking + Final Cut Pro + Apple Tech YouTuber with 29.4k subs. BFA in Acting. MFA in Screenwriting. Greater Omaha area.

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