…I travel with the RAID for several reasons, shooting in 4K RAW for file transfer, file transport and editing on the road. I tried a 1080 workflow with proxy back to 4K but always seemed to have problems. In my opinion, the camera is shooting 4K and I want to use the media it generates for the best possible grade, so transcoding is not an option for me either.
Greg Crosby at NAB talking about new G-Technology products that embrace Thunderbolt 3, including their G-RAID line.
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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.
If you could travel back in time to the early ’80s and survive all of the hair spray, you’d might realize that a year’s supply of hair products would be cheaper than a gigabyte of hard disk storage. Today, you can get the same capacity for less. Because you can pile up terabytes for the price of a family dinner at a local restaurant, it’s tempting to buy the least expensive, consumer-grade hard disk drives (HDDs), especially when enterprise-grade drives of the same capacity cost noticeably more.