PCMag.com has chosen the LaCie Rugged SSD Pro external drive as their Editors’ Choice! PCMag.com posted a great article reviewing this drive. The LaCie Rugged SSD Pro drive is one of our favorite portable, rugged drives so we are going to highlight some of the article below.
t’s been a little while since we’ve seen their gear in the lab, but we’ve known the G-Technology team at this point for a decade or longer. G-Technology is a division of Western Digital, and is known for their RAID enclosures, hard drives and SSDs designed specifically for the discerning creative professional. As needs change and performance becomes paramount for this audience, G-Technology SSDs stand out from the crowd, delivering industry leading solutions for use in both the field and the office. In this joint review, we take a look at three of the leading G-Technology SSD solutions, quickly catching up on this portion of the WD portfolio designed to address the needs of the high-end content creator audience.
A year or so ago, I invested more than $2,000 in an 8-bay, 24 terabyte RAID system — which included a handle for portability. My G-Speed Shuttle XL is a great piece of kit, but you need a pack mule if you’re going to take it into the field.
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As a video editor, I’m regularly looking for a good portable hard drive that can serve a couple different purposes. Some I’m looking to box up and mail across the country to different marketing firms or editing companies, others I’m looking to carry with me when I have to leave the office but still need immediate and fast access to in-progress projects.
At some point in the relatively-near future, the traditional hard drive-comprised of spinning platters of magnetic material will disappear from the marketplace. The fragility of conventional drives is offset by the low cost of production, but as solid-state memory drops in price, the cost benefits of sticking with a large, delicate recording device in computers will disappear and Solid State Drive (SSD) hard drives will become the norm. The G|Drive mobile SSD is an indication of the shape (and size) of things to come.
Western Digital recently announced a new storage device: the My Passport Wireless SSD.
The world’s population is going mobile, according to the number of portable drives by different companies announced at CES 2018: Sandisk, Seagate, Patriot, Dell and Western Digital are some of the names involved.
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.
Sony has unveiled a new range of SSDs designed specifically with external video recorders in mind. The Sony SSD G Series drives claim to be more durable and reliable.
Recognising the large user base in the external recorder market, Sony has announced a new line of SSDs with this kind of shooter in mind.