Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Real SSD UPGRADE – Laptop, iPhone, PS5, everything!”.
This video is sponsored by sk heinlex, it’s crazy to see how far tech has come over the years and sometimes it’s hard to not get a little nostalgic for the simpler times. But if there’s one thing about old tech that i will never miss it’s this, this is the fastest boot of time i have ever seen. So if you weren’t around, when laptops had spinny hard drives user. Madam uh have my respect and admiration for those of us that remember uh the before times it’s sort of tough to imagine going back to that and now ssds are everywhere right, they’re in our laptops, they’re in our phones, they’re in our watches, they’re in our game Consoles pretty much anything electronic that needs to read and write is using ssds. We know that, but there are some hacks and some tricks that you can use these ssds for that can supercharge a bunch of stuff that i don’t think you ever thought of. So at the heart of kind of all of these hacks or new uses, it’s the latest tech from sk hynix, it’s the new gold, p31 ssd. So if i can channel my my inner austin evidence for a minute uh, it uses pcie nvme gen 3..
It can do pretty fast, read speeds of 3 500 megabytes per second and then really fast. Write speeds too. Of around 3200, the gold p31 also delivers best in class speeds for pcie gen 3 and also offers really high energy efficiency.
It’S also the world’s first 128 layer, nand flash based consumer ssd. You can get them in either 500 or 1 terabyte size options and they’re all available on amazon, we’ll link to them down below. So obviously you can put this inside of a computer, but you can also put it inside of an m2 enclosure.
That’S what we’ve been doing for a lot of our tests, so this makes it obviously like more versatile. You can do more stuff with it, but one of my favorite things to do with it is actually to add an ssd to my iphone so which i love like what apple’s generally done with the iphone 12 and i’m thrilled. They upped the pro storage to start at 128, starting at 64 for the 12 and older phones and for people who are keeping their phones longer than a year two years that fills up incredibly fast. I’Ve had friends and family saying i don’t know what to do.
My phone says i don’t have enough space, do i have to like pick and choose my favorite pictures and videos and apps to keep using my phone, and while i would love apple, to be able to offer full memory swaps, it is clearly never going to happen. So using an option like this, you can actually plug it directly into the lightning port of your phone, giving your phone not only like more life, but also more storage. You don’t have to always have it plugged in all the time either you can use it when you need it. So actually, all you do to make this happen is apple’s first party, lightning, camera adapter and then a third-party powered usb hub, we’ll include all the links to those down below.
Essentially, all you have to do is plug it in, in the background, it’ll get mounted open. Your files, app and you’ll see it as a location. So now you could store movies or pictures on there. Open them up view it, and you can also drag and drop both ways.
So if you want to put stuff on your phone that you’ve got on your ssd or you want to offload files or movies or pictures, you can put them on the ssd and plug them back in whenever you need to. I think, for a lot of people. The real big like space eating stuff is usually tends to be in photos. You got an album or a video from a trip, but there’s a really easy way inside of photos to export either a whole gallery or individual pictures or videos directly to the ssd.
So all you have to do is just select the photos or videos that you want to share hit the share button like you’re gon na you know, airdrop or message them and then just hit save to files. Then you’ve got the option to select the portable ssd you’ve got plugged in hit, save and you’re done, and just like that, you can now go back and delete those gigantic files on your phone, because you’ve got them saved on your new ssd and if you’re not Using an iphone, it becomes way simpler, so ipad, it’s just usb you plug it in and then everything else is the same. It’Ll mount if you’re using an android device with usbc. It is equally simple.
You just plug the thing in go to whatever file manager. You use and it’ll be there mounted you can copy over whatever you need. It is so simple and so easy to do.
[ Applause ]! So, aside from all that sort of backup stuff on your phones, like our workflow, relies on ssd and with these gold p3 ones, we could record directly to them from our blackmagic camera, essentially treating them like you know, you would a giant sd card and that we Can edit directly from those drives as well? So in fact, this entire video, all the a-roll, all the b-roll, everything was shot and edited off of one single gold, p31 drive, but perhaps the biggest reason people are buying ssds is like the most obvious. You can literally breathe new life into an older computer working from home. You need more storage, you need apps to load faster. It is an amazing way to only save you money for having to buy a new computer, but also just speed the entire thing up.
So we’ve got an msi gaming laptop here. It’S got a user accessible slot for an m2 ssd expansion and all you got to do – and this is pretty similar for almost all brands of laptops that have this take off the back install the drive. This whole thing took like 10 minutes to do. Suddenly we had the entire second drive, that’s available, crazy, fast and super capable, and the results speak for themselves, we’re getting over 3 400 megabytes per second reed and over 3 300 on the right, so that the gold p31 from sk honx is one of the newest And most versatile of these type of drives that are out and the obvious use case of putting your computer are there and you know them, but there’s a bunch of other ways that you can use ssds. So for us, it’s our storage for our cameras, which is awesome to have it’s external storage for your phone or tablet.
There’S a lot of other ways that you can use. Ssds the nature of their form factor being smaller and more compact just gives you just way. More options than we’ve ever had before and obviously with the holidays coming up. Sk hynex has some great deals.
So if you guys want to pick up a gold p31 ssd for yourself, i’m gon na give you pretty special deal. So if you use the code 10 john skh, you can save 10 on the one terabyte gold p31. If you want to hit the link down below, you can check out the p31 from sk hynix .