Here’s how one production studio is handling the storage challenges of VR content and 360-degree footage. Creating immersive experiences requires equipment that can handle massive amounts of data. Seagate and LaCie are tackling that challenge.
Check out our compilation of SSD drive storage from Sony, G-Technology, and Glyph.
What does the future of local storage and the cloud look like?Whether we’re talking about archive, workflow, storage or the post-production process itself, more and more is headed to the cloud. That means service providers are now more focused on cloud storage and internet speeds, not the access to the service in the first place. It also means the next step is to figure out how to merge most, if not all content to the digital realm in the sky versus keeping the content on a drive in a drawer or closet somewhere.
Over the course of this period, if you take a look at the table, the 8TB HGST, 8TB Seagate, and 4TB Toshiba hard drives were the only ones with 0% failure rate.
The new MacBook Pro is here and it only has Thunderbolt 3/USB-C ports. But that’s OK, because USB-C is fast, future-proof, and will eventually (probably) replace standard USB, HDMI, DisplayPort, power, and more.
Storage company G-Technology has announced a new stand-alone SSD storage device that it claims can manage transfer speeds of up to 540MB per second. The G-Drive slim SSD uses a USB 3.1 interface and requires no external power source to run.
The latest addition to the Workflow family are a pair of portable SSDs. Available in 256GB and 512GB capacities, the drives feature an LED capacity meter to view available storage space.