Sony’s new durable SSDs are designed for 4K video
By Jim Bask
Solid state drives may be more durable than their magnetic, disk-based hard drive counterparts, but quickly transferring data to and from the drives can still wear them out, causing failure and data loss. Especially if you’re doing something like filming 4K video, which needs to be able to quickly write data to an SSD at a constant rate without error.
Sony’s new G Series Professional SSDs, however, are specifically designed for just that kind of scenario, according to Engadget. The company claims that the new drives can ensure stable 4K video recording without frame drops, even after the SDDs have been subjected to multiple rewrites…[continue reading]