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As a user of Samsung SSD products cinematographer Zach Levi-Rodgers already appreciated how they could help him but then he started using the Portable SSD T5… REVOLUTION!
P roducers are always looking for ways to speed up productions, usually due to the problem of running over and then having to pay crew and talent more. In turn they are constantly asking crew including the DOPs to find ways of making their time more efficient. Cinematographer Zach Levi- Rodgers was no different and had already been using previous Samsung SSDs to deal with camera data, but having used the latest Samsung Portable SSD T5 drive, he reports a great improvement in speed. “There have been a bunch of jobs recently that have been super time restricted,” he begins. “We just have to keep shooting, shooting, shooting. Where you
SPEEDS Zach showed the production some tests using the Samsung Portable SSD T5 and the transfer speed was averaging 600MB/s. The test included a 10GB clip and the transfer time was ten seconds. “For us this was absolutely insane! If you do the maths, the drive will achieve
don’t have enough camera cards you are constantly downloading footage as fast as you can to get them back in the camera. “Also productions usually provide slower hard drives which transfer at a maximum rate of 100MB/s! That means a full card will take around 40 minutes to transfer. We need speed and capacity so I asked a recent production if I could bring the Samsung Portable SSD T5 on-set and the transfer time went down to less than ten minutes, which was amazing, and thanks to its small dimensions, it could just fit in my pocket. The performance of the Samsung Portable SSD T5 will make hard drives redundant for our kind of work and I will be buying multiple examples.”
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