Video Editing Off External Hard Drive

I was looking for such an external hard drive for my video and photo editing. It is just what I need and I think it has a good quality/price ratio. It is light enough and small enough to be transported.

Good hard drive, nothing to complain about. I'm doing video editing with it

Excellent External hard drive.

I use it as an external hard drive for photos.

I bought this drive when B&H had a sale to use for video editing. The drive is well made and handles the need to edit my files on an external drive with Final Cut Pro X. I would recommend this drive!

I have found the Seagate 5TB drive a great external drive for backing up video editing projects, and for taking with me on video shoots. I can copy files from my cameras onto the drive, keep filming the next day, and then plug it into my computer when I am back in the office and I have all my files.

I use this external drive for video editing and storage, a great alternative to paying the high price of added internal storage. It is fast and reliable and the experience is the same as if I were relying on an internal ssd drive

I have been needing an external SSD for both storage & video editing. I recently learned about these super portable options from Crucial and decided to take a chance. So far, I am impressed. The amount of time it takes me to edit off the drive seems to have improved. Not to mention, the Crucial pairs nicely with my Lumix ecosystem (S5iiX and the GH6). So I can record hours of ProRes footage straight to the drive, then plug it into my computer and edit right off of it. Looking forward to using this for more projects in the near future!

The Macbook Pro is a known powerhouse. The 16MB of RAM and M1 processor are especially helpful with photo and video editing. It's snappy! If I didn't have an external monitor to connect, I might be dissatisfied with the 13.3 display, but it works well-enough when I'm disconnected, and is a non-issue when connected to the larger display. The plan all along was to use the external display for photo/video processing anyway, since even a 16 is not really big enough for me when working on high-resolution content where details and sharpness differences are critical. I'm only a little disappointed that there aren't more Thunderbolt/USB4 ports. It only becomes an issue when I want to connect an external display, the charger, and an external drive. The battery life on this thing is so good currently that I've just been connecting the external display instead of the charger when I'm editing. The 1TB internal storage also mitigates this issue to a degree as I can work on the local drive, and backup to the external storage when a port is free. The size and weight mean packing it in my photo backpack is almost unnoticeable. Overall, I am quite pleased with it.

G-Raid has been my go-to external drive provider for years now. The performance has been solid and dependable for what I do - which is video editing with Final Cut Pro. Unlike other name brand external drives, I've never had a single issue with the 7 of these that I own and continuously use.