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REACH YOUR RESOLUTION The Samsung Portable SSD X5 is the answer for those seeking new ways to manage the increase in resolution, as international reseller, CVP, found when it started filming marketing videos in 8K
IMAGES CVP creates weekly videos of the latest pro video gear, requiring a fast drive, such as the Samsung Portable SSD X5
CVP’s Joe Cannon was keen to test the new Samsung Portable SSD X5. “We are producing videos every week and for most of what we shoot, we are working with Raw formats in resolutions up to 8K,” explains Joe. “It’s got to the point where even some of our simpler YouTube videos require an onerous workflow, which relies on highly capable and efficient tools, such as the portable drive from Samsung. The less bottlenecks your system has, the smoother your workflow becomes. A key part of this is how your media is handled. “When we are editing our projects, we rely on SSDs to make sure our read and write speeds can keep up with our processing speeds, especially when we are dealing with projects with multiple
WITH THE UPCOMING 2020 Summer Olympics being widely broadcast in glorious 8K resolution, the acceptance of shooting, editing and distributing in this new resolution increases. A global event like the Olympics focuses the mind of all content producers as new higher resolution cameras are launched on to the market in time for next year. CONTENT INCREASE As a major international reseller, CVP has to not only test the new equipment that comes its way, but produce marketing material, which increasingly includes videos. Having the means to be able to manage resolutions like 8K and beyond is no longer a luxury but a necessity, which is why
layers of data-intensive videos. A lot of the time, these have to be portable SSDs for all the occasions we are editing on the go, and while we have seen big benefits with working from portable SSDs, we have still been limited by ours using USB 3.1.” ENTER THE SAMSUNG PORTABLE SSD X5 A key takeaway from previous reviews of the Samsung Portable SSD drives is that the users achieve almost instant speed increases in their workflow – and it was the same for CVP’s Joe when he began using the Samsung Portable SSD X5. “We have been able to massively increase our read speeds by using the Samsung portable drive,” he enthuses. The Samsung Portable SSD X5 also offers a Thunderbolt 3 connection, another plus for Joe. “Where we can, we have always favoured the use of Thunderbolt due to the higher transfer speeds, but consequently there are fewer devices that support Thunderbolt,” he says. “Now that our main workstations have Thunderbolt 3 [as do many newer devices], we have been able to utilise the incredible high speeds that the Samsung Portable SSD X5 can achieve, with our 1TB version being
“It’s a seriously impressive device at a relatively modest price”
IMAGE The Samsung Portable SSD X5 read/write speeds are 25.5x/20.9x faster than an external HDD
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