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Hitting the gas Harvey Beardsell, founder of BlobfishMedia, takes the Samsung Portable SSD X5 for a spin and becomes an instant fan T WENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD Harvey Beardsell puts the young in rising young star, with four years of professional experience already

under his belt. He launched and works through Blobfish Media, creating tailored video content for brand promotion, social media, entertainment and much more. Many of his clients come from an industry close to Beardsell’s heart: motocross. As such, his working environment is often far from the sterile and self-contained world of on-set productions, and so are his needs. It’s no surprise, then, that he jumped at the chance to try the Samsung Portable SSD X5. “I’ve been using the Samsung Portable SSD X5 with a recent client, a high-end protection dog company, while producing social media content for them,” Beardsell tells us. “Working week-to-week, the client requires a very fast turnaround for the final edits, meaning the footage transfers simply must be fast and reliable. Plus, with the amount of social media

“Even using the drive with 4K footage, the speed was surprising. It’s by far the fastest I’ve used”

content we shoot throughout a month, organisation and secure storage are key.” While he’s eager tomake the most of its other capabilities, so far, Beardsell has been using the portable drive for what it does first and foremost – serving as a powerful yet portable storage device. “Straight out of the box it slipped seamlessly into my workflow, being used for footage transfer and storage,” he explains. “A good external hard drive was perfect for this client in particular, especially given their need to rewatch previously shot footage throughout.” Full throttle The Samsung Portable SSD X5 is known for its outstanding speed and Beardsell says it lived up to expectations. “Even using the drive with 4K footage, the speed was genuinely very surprising. Working off the drive into my editing software felt as though I could have been on my internal laptop drive – there was virtually no difference speed wise! This drive is by far the fastest I’ve used,” he enthuses. If we’re talking cold, hard stats, the Samsung Portable SSD X5 offers a read speed of 2.8GB/s and a write speed of 2.3GB/s, thanks in large part to its Thunderbolt 3 interface. With the option of

IMAGE Up-and-coming filmmaker, Harvey Beardsell, found the portable drive slipped seamlessly into his workflow

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