BEST Hard Drive for Video & Photo Editing? — Lacie 2Big 20TB Review
By Jim Bask
In this video I review the LaCie 2Big 20TB Thunderbolt Hard Drive and compare it to my Samsung SDD and Western Digital USB 3.0 HDD.
In this video I review the LaCie 2Big 20TB Thunderbolt Hard Drive and compare it to my Samsung SDD and Western Digital USB 3.0 HDD.
Content creators need solid, reliable storage — here’s a look at a USB hard drive array designed specifically for them.
Earlier this fall, LaCie sent me a LaCie 20TB Dock 2-BAY RAID System to use and implement within my video-editing workflow. I was pleasantly surprised by the amazing connective power it added to my editing suite.
If you work (or play) in the video industry, you’ve likely heard of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, or SMPTE. They’re the people responsible for bringing standards that facilitate interoperability, to the film and television industry — or simply put, they’re the people who make sure that you can actually see and hear a quality motion picture, no matter where or how it was produced.
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I like storage. I really do. Most of the projects I work on are shot in 4K and beyond, so storage is important. It doesn’t help that directors don’t have much incentive to say “cut” as they might have done when they shot on film. A recent project tied up nearly 18 terabytes of storage during finishing.
Setting up the LaCie Thunderbolt 3 2big Dock is easy–in fact, it’s mostly just unbox and plug in. LaCie also offers some RAID manager software that you can install to help manage the drive arrays.
The folks over at G-tech have just published a series of videos highlighting the features, performance and workflows of their latest and greatest Thunderbolt 3 based storage.
World renowned surf photographer Todd Glaser shares how Lacie hard drives streamline his workflow. With the help of Rugged drives and 6big Thunderbolt 3, he can protect his footage from the elements, upload and edit content lightning fast, and centralize tons of files into one space.
It’s tempting to compare storage based only on size, capacity and speed. But there’s much more to it than that. Take the G|SPEED SHUTTLE XL from G-Technology, for example.
When you’re choosing storage, you have what seems like a million options. It’s always tempting to narrow your choice down to speed, capacity and price. But there’s much more to it than that.