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“The Samsung Portable SSD X5’s performance suggests a big improvement in workflow”
so transcode and delivery performance is critical. We are using a high-performance SAN across our operation with typically 40GB and 10GB client connections. “The performance of Samsung’s Portable SSD X5 suggests there would be a big improvement in workflow if we were copying files across to this as we were scanning and then transcoding on the same drive for delivery.” is clients sending in a drive for their files, assuming the interface specifies the performance! We can see a 10% performance difference with USB 3. Where cheaper ‘backup’ drives might only get 20 MB/s, high-performance RAID or SSDs using USB 3 can write at well over 200 MB/s. When we are moving terabytes for a project, this can be painfully slow.” Adrian is also conducting grading tests using the Samsung portable drive, at 4K, once again, where the speed (or lack of) can affect the interactivity and he believes it will perform positively. It’s no surprise he is looking at investing in Samsung’s Portable SSD X5 drive technology to act as the transcode hub for the highest quality file transfer service. Adrian continues: “A regular challenge
Adrian at Cinelab was also keen to offer the widest choice of film scanners that would then present the highest spec digital film to be used by post-production companies. To enable this, film is scanned in to uncompressed formats, which will always result in huge file sizes. For post- production to be able to start working with these files, they need to be turned into formats that can be easily manipulated by post systems. This is where Samsung’s Portable SSD X5 drive comes into the picture. Adrian put it to work immediately, transcoding from the uncompressed format to a more compressed one. This would take some serious number crunching. “We added the Samsung portable drive into our process and it certainly performs,” explains Adrian. “When testing, we had 4K 10-bit DPXs transcoding to ProRes HQ 444 at 35fps. This suggests a read speed of over 2 GB/s with the computer transcoding and writing to the same drive simultaneously. At 2K for the same test, DPX to ProRes HQ 444, we were achieving over 90fps. “From our film processing and scanning operations, we generate between 5-10TB per day of new content,
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