GEAR BUYERS’ GUIDE
We take a look at some of the very latest gear to store your precious data – frommemory cards to portable drives and more MEMORY! CUTTING-EDGE
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O nce you’ve recorded your or USB drive attached to your camera, to portable drives on-location, long-term storage and working drives back at base, masterpiece, the last thing you want is for the footage to be lost forever. From the memory card
when recording, or to stop the dreaded buffering when editing from a hard drive. And with different cameras now using a range of media such as SSD, CFexpress and CFast, and computers now moving to Thunderbolt or USB-C, it’s time to take a look at some of the best kit on the market.
buying reliable and fast media is crucial. Any failure is a total nightmare, so it makes sense to invest in some of the best media. Scrimping here is a huge gamble, especially for a professional. Speed is of the essence, as it needs to keep up with the data from your camera
LACIE 1BIG DOCK SSD PRO 2TB £1249/$1301 lacie.com
LaCie has been a brand trusted by filmmakers for years, and rightly so. Now the French company, part of Seagate Technology, has revealed one of the fastest, most compact, reliable and powerful desktop drives that is so much more than a standard external hard drive. The new LaCie 1big Dock SSD Pro, available in 2TB and 4TB capacities, is ideal for editing data-intense 6K, 8K, super slow-motion, uncompressed Raw video and VFX content. It uses Seagate’s cutting-edge FireCuda NVMe SSD and Thunderbolt 3 connections to deliver read speeds of up to 2800MB/s. It has two Thunderbolt 3 ports that are USB-C compatible, and a docking station including a built-in USB 3.0 port, cinema-grade memory card slots for CFast 2.0, CFexpress and SD, and a DisplayPort 1.4 output connection. It is the ideal peripheral for professional cinema cameras, including leading brands like Arri, Blackmagic, Red and Canon.
And having an SSD inside rather than a spinning hard drivemeans it’smuch quieter, faster and reliable, as it has no moving parts to wear out. However, if you need more capacity, LaCie also has the revealed the similarly styled 1big Dock, which uses HDD drives and comes in 4TB, 8TB and 16TB capacities. Both SSD and HDD units can deliver up to 45W of power to a laptop or 30Wwhen daisy-chaining compatible devices. Both come with a five-year warranty with Rescue Data Recovery Services and a free one-month Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps plan. The Lacie 1big Dock SSD Pro retails for £1249/$1301 for a 2TB version, while the 1big Dock is £330/$354 for a 4TB unit.
LACIE RUGGED BOSS SSD 1TB £446/$452 lacie.com LaCie aims to make it easier than ever to manage content on the go with the 1TB Rugged Boss SSD. It offers SSD speeds of up to 430MB/s with direct file transfers via the integrated SD card slot andUSB port. There’s a built-instatus screen for real-timeupdates on transfers, capacity and battery life. Managed via the LaCie Boss app on iOS and Android, you can view, name and delete
footage using your mobile device. And of course, being part of the rugged range, it is drop, splash and dust resistant. It can also be used as a portable power pack for USB
devices like phones. It has a three-year warranty and comes with Seagate’s Rescue Data Recovery Services and a one-month subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud.
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