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NEXT GEN CAMERA MEDIA The new Samsung Portable SSD X5 with the NVMe interface has a throughput performance that the HDR capture world has been waiting for
THE HIGH END Up is the only direction camera recorded data is going. We asked Thunderbolt interface and post-production expert, Gary Adcock, what the new Samsung Portable SSD X5 would bring to high-end acquisition. “Today, the most data hungry cameras are the ARRI Alexa 65 and the Phantom high-speed 4K camera,” says Adcock. “Neither writes camera native data at more than about 500 MB/s. All camera native media types require less than this, RED is just over 295 MB/s in 8K and the Sony Venice camera is about the same in 6K.” So, at those data speeds the Samsung Portable SSD X5 easily partners even the highest data-producing cameras, but history shows us that data amounts are always
YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THAT when we started looking at the Samsung T series of portable SSD drives, we foresaw that camera manufacturers would covet the transfer speed performance of the device. Also through our many previous cases studied, we found that content creators would even go so far as to reverse engineer their cameras to work with the drives. Samsung portable drives are now seen as required camera capture media for the latest capture devices, from cutting-edge companies like Blackmagic Design and Z Cam. These are products that have recognised the highly desirable small and light form factor of the Samsung portable drives and married them with their new camera outputs.
“What it really speeds up, is the actual data transfer”
IMAGES The Samsung Portable SSD X5 easily partners data-hungry camera, the ARRI Alexa 65.
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