Rugged G-DRIVE Mobile SSD R-Series Can Survive 3-Meter Drops
By Jim Bask
The new G-Technology G-DRIVE mobile SSD R-Series is designed extra tough to make sure even the clumsiest filmmaker doesn’t lose data.
We all know you should never keep your data all in one place. Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) as they say. But even once you’ve gotten your raw dailies backed up onto hard disk drives, with one set in your closet and another set stored in a fireproof safe in your cousin’s garage in another hemisphere, you still need a fast, reliable drive for day-to-day work. Increasingly, solid-state drives (SSDs) are becoming a popular option for daily work drives, where the extra speed is worth the extra cost. With the new R-Series drives, G-Technology is aiming squarely at that market—the drive you can keep with you in your backpack at all times that can survive the rugged life of being the working drive for a filmmaker.
Shock and vibration resistant (the “r is for rugged”), R-Series drives are designed to withstand falls up to 3m, or nearly 10 feet. While most filmmakers drop their drives from waist or desk height, sometimes a drive will fall off the top of a ladder, and it’s good to have extra protection built in. Just because it’s designed for it doesn’t mean you should rely on it, and you shouldn’t drop the drive every morning from 10 feet and expect it to last forever, though we do expect to see some stunt YouTube videos dropping the drive from the top of a building and seeing if the data survives….[continue reading on NoFilmSchool]