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CONNECT I NG THE SAMSUNG PORTABLE SSD T5 FOR F I VE MI NUTES ALLOWS YOU TO KEEP GO I NG; I T ’ LL RE VOLUT I ON I SE THE PRACT I CE

IMAGES Using the Samsung Portable SSD T5 on recent productions, cinematographer Zach Levi-Rodgers has been impressed by its speed and portability.

BUSINESS PLANS Zach is so convinced of the speed, capacity and portability of the Samsung Portable SSD T5 that he is planning to invest in at least two of the 2TB versions. “One drive is never enough on a production because of the redundancy,” he explains. “You can’t just download drives on to a single drive because even though it is very reliable, if one did fail, then you’ve lost your rushes. “But for me from now on when it comes to providing drives I will only ever provide Samsung SSDs because they make that much of a difference and they’re so reliable. They also offer fantastic security with their AES 256-bit hardware encryption and are buss-powered which is the way to go. Often you have to carry on transferring rushes at home and then send them off in the post so this security is vital.”

35GB a minute so you can see how much time this frees up.” Usually for commercials work Zach is allowed to use DITs to look after the camera data but that only accounts for about 30% of his work: “A lot of production companies skip the DIT role completely and will get assistants or wranglers to come and do it instead.” The rest of the time he is looking after the data as well as shooting. Zach shoots all genres but perhaps the most use his Samsung Portable SSD T5 has had is when he’s shooting documentaries. “When you’re shooting documentary stuff or anything that’s fast paced, you’re going to be constantly rolling throughout the day,” he says. “In those situations, you know you won’t have DITs to help you or half an hour to transfer the camera cards. So quickly connecting the Samsung Portable SSD T5 for five minutes allows you to keep going; it’ll revolutionise the practice.” The amazing transfer speed and the production impact the Samsung Portable SSD T5 has had for Zach is one thing. A far more important impact is what production calls ‘the get-out’ at the end of the day. “I’ve done it a thousand times, you wrap and you’ve still got to transfer a ton of cards and you may be there for an extra hour. With the Samsung Portable SSD T5 you don’t have to be there for another hour but for maybe ten minutes. That’ll make everybody on-set happy and the producer very pleased as he or she doesn’t have to pay an extra hour of overtime.”

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