To help create popular shows such as Documentary Now and Portlandia, TV and film production company Broadway Video relies on speed, capacity and reliability for their storage needs. Learn more about their feedback of the G-RACK 12 as their choice for their solution system
The G-Drive Slim SSD’s performance is simply excellent—on par with the average internal SATA SSD when used via the USB 3.1 bus. The Slim SSD clocked right around 510MBps reading and 420MBps writing in both CrystalDiskMark and AS SSD.
G-Technology started using HGST’s helium-filled hard drives in their direct-attached storage (DAS) products earlier this year. The product lines utilizing these 8TB and 10TB drives include:
G-Technology knows that your customer’s data management and creative processes are constantly evolving. So G-Tech’s aim is to constantly evolve – and expand – as they do. And that’s what your customers get with G-Technology’s Evolution Series storage solutions.
From portable, rugged shuttle drives and modular, interchangeable editing systems to integration with high-performance RAID solutions, the ev Series gear can go from on-set or in the field, to the studio and back. They’re flexible, reliable, and cross-functional, designed exclusively for evolving creative workflows.
Naturally the right solutions for evolving needs!
Broadway Video℠ Ted Pacult found himself in the midst of a real nightmare during the sixth season of the hit TV show Portlandia®. He and his team maxed out their current network-attached storage (NAS) box and were desperately seeking a solution. The situation had grown untenable: multiple people working on a project, needing to share files, trying to find the most current scene edit, dealing with data backup, and on and on.
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We live in a fantastic time for film where 4K is fast becoming the norm both at home and in theaters, while the technology to shoot breathtaking visuals is coming in smaller form factors. Everything is getting better and smaller, with the exception of data — data is getting exponentially larger.
The G-Technology Shuttle XL is a large, fast and portable storage solution for those that make money producing video. Expandable to 80TB, the Shuttle XL can be configured to accept less-common formats including RED MINI-MAG.
There’s no doubt the need for bigger and bigger storage solutions will only continue to grow in the foreseeable future. With higher bit rates, it’s inevitable that we will all have huge storage arrays eventually. For some, that time is now. If you shoot RAW, you need a place to store it. If you just shoot a lot, then you need a place to store it. If your video is valuable, or needs to be archived, you need a place to store it. Frankly, everyone either needs or will need a data solution.
G-Technology has expanded their ev Drive line-up, doubling its maximum capacity to 2TB. The highly versatile Evolution Series drives can be used as a stand alone rugged USB 3 portable hard drive or plugged into a Shuttle for quick offload and duplication.
G-Technology this week introduced several new models of its G-Drive and G-RAID products with Thunderbolt 1, USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt 2 soltions. These are direct attached storage (DAS) devices, based on the latest hard drives featuring 10 TB capacity. The new DAS products aim to significantly increase performance and capacities of devices aimed at consumers and prosumers. The introduction of such storage solutions emphasizes that Western Digital (which owns the HGST and the G-Technology brands) is moving its helium-filled HDDs into the consumer space.