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Nicolai’s future travels will take him to Oslo, Norway, Istanbul and the US, where he’ll be educating TV professionals. He’s also working with Canon and on various TV documentaries that are due to air later in the year. It may appear that his time is fully accounted for, but the G-DRIVEmobile Pro SSD is helping himgain some of that back. “I never thought a drive would change my workflow andmy set-up in this way,” he says, “but that’s exactly what it did.”

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system. “I now have one system that is always withme,” he says. His improved set-up consists of a 2017 MacBook Pro, an external GPU – for additional processing power – and the G-DRIVEmobile Pro SSD, but the biggest difference to his workflow has been the drive. It’s bus powered, too, so it doesn’t need external powering. This makes it possible for Nicolai to take his G-DRIVEmobile Pro SSDwherever the story takes him. “I can edit on-set, at the airport or when I’m travelling. It doesn’t matter where I am, I can start working right away,” he explains. “The most important thing for me is that it’s so versatile. I can have the power of my iMac in a small drive that can also run my 4K footage.” At up to 2TB, the G-DRIVEmobile Pro SSD can handle almost anything you can throw at it. Weighing just 0.2kg, it has a 454kg crush-proof and 3mdrop-proof rating, making it the ideal companion for

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