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download to a bigger device in the peace and quiet of a hotel room. Facing a shooting schedule that involved nearly two weeks away from base, and being aware of the vast amount of footage they were going to produce, Nino and his team took all three of the products in the new G-Technology Pro SSD range with them. The daddy of them all is the G-SPEED Shuttle SSD, which is a scorchingly fast RAID powerhouse in either 8TB or 16TB configurations, with transfer speeds up to 2800MB/s. The eight-bay Shuttle has a built-in hardware RAID controller that ships configured in RAID 5 for maximum performance, but is easily changed to RAID 0, 1, 10 or 50 to provide a versatile and flexible storage solution. Dual Thunderbolt 3 ports allow daisy-chaining to up to five additional devices so it’s possible to stay connected to multiple drives, 4K displays and more through a single connection to a laptop. Meanwhile, the G-DRIVE Pro SSD is an aluminium desktop SSD available in 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB an 7.68TB capacities and, once again, dual Thunderbolt 3 ports on the back allow multiple daisy-chaining. The G-DRIVE Pro SSD can also achieve up to 2800MB/s transfer speeds, ideal for intensive production schedules – this equates to as much as a terabyte of content transferred in seven minutes or fewer. The G-DRIVE mobile Pro SSD “The G-Technology line-upof professional- grade SSDs ticked all of the boxes”
ABOVE Versatile and flexible, the G-Technology SSDs could be easily used alongside each other for speedy, reliable end- of-day transfers on-site and back at base. the evening, alongside the G-DRIVE Pro SSD, all of that day’s material could be transferred over quickly and easily, potentially saving hours of time and giving the team a chance to take a well- earned break. Given that some members might have been hard at work capturing the light at sunset through to sundown, creating a 14-hour shooting day, anything that takes away some of the stress is to be welcomed. “We keep three backup copies of everything,” says Nino, “and also have the potential to use the ev series bay on the Shuttle to write to ev series drives, so that we can send footage back to base for the initial edit to begin.” Nino appreciates the opportunity, as he did on this shoot, to work with his own hard drives and SSDs, but there are times when a client might prefer to provide their own backup – and then it’s a case of going right back to the bad old days. “If you’re saving to slow hard drives then someone will have to sit there and input everything,” he says, “and you could be looking at a two-hour job, which then gets charged to the client so it’s doing them no favours either. “The fact is that with these new products from G-Technology, SSDs have effectively come of age and it’s made all of our lives a very great deal easier.”
Thunderbolt 3 port, can still achieve the same lightning-fast speeds as its bigger brothers. “The G-DRIVE mobile Pro SSD is the one we had with us at all times,” explains Nino. “It’s small and light enough to fit in a pocket, has plenty of capacity in 500GB or 1TB models and comes wrapped in a durable case, making it crush proof and shock resistant. This means that should it get accidentally dropped from a height of anything up to three metres, then both the data and the device will survive and, for me, this is a huge reassurance.” The G-SPEED Shuttle SSD was used as the master storage device for the whole of the shoot and – happily for filmmakers on the go – it comes complete with a handle on top to facilitate easy movement. Set up in a hotel room for
does what it says on the tin, in that it’s portable and robust enough to go anywhere and yet, via its single
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