If you think outside of the box, so should your storage. The LaCie 2big Dock delivers everything you expect from our products—high capacity, lighting-fast speeds, and enterprise-class drives—but it’s more than that. Port by port, slot by slot, we designed a powerful docking station that gives back to you everything that modern laptops took away. The result: a creative space that’s entirely streamlined.

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The following piece originally ran on electrify. The Q&A, with outdoor photographer and cinematographer Andy Best, offers a behind the scenes look at the inspiration, techniques and tech behind his awe-inspiring creations.

Widely acclaimed photographer and cinematographer, Andy Best, has managed to do what most people only dream of doing: traversing some of the world’s most breathtaking landscapes — and getting paid to do it. Whether he’s sharing stories from the road or telling you the names he’s given to each of his hard drives (they’re all named after places he’s been), it is apparent that Andy’s gusto and down-to-earth nature have been two leading forces in his success….

…What is your system in maintaining your photographic archive?

When I’m back home I go with the LaCie 2big Thunderbolt 2 or 5big Thunderbolt 2 for storing my photos. After a project, I’ll dump my files onto the 3TB HDD and catalogue them on a spreadsheet. In Breckenridge, for instance, I brought a 4TB and 2TB for double backup. Ideally, I’d love to be able to assemble some kind of cart so that I can tote around my LaCie 5big while I’m out doing a lot of large-file video footage — I’ve heard that some people are actually out there doing that. At home I use the same folder system — layout and everything — for all of my files. Doing things that way means I can go back several years and when I open a folder, I know exactly what I’m looking at. It takes out the guess work…[continue reading]

AKITIO Thunder 3 QUAD MINI

The Thunder 3 Quad Mini is unsurprisingly a smallish 4-bay storage enclosure designed to house up to four 2.5-inch drives. With Software RAID, four striped SSDs can reach data transfer speeds of up to 1375 MB per second while the Thunderbolt 3 interface provides sufficient bandwidth for additional 4K video signal streams and data transfers at the same time.

CODEX M SERIES FLEXI DRIVE

The main part of the system are these Codex Flexi Drives, which are a high-capacity, secure, transportable storage solution. Each Flexi Drive has a capacity of 24 TB and quad data redundancy protection. Typical LTO file access in a tape robot is 1-4 minutes but with a Codex Flexi Drive it is only 0.008 seconds.

GTECH G-RAID THUNDERBOLT 3

G-RAID, it even sounds cool when you say it. At its base headline, the G-RAID with Thunderbolt 3 is a high-performance, dual Enterprise-class 7200RPM hard drive storage system featuring Thunderbolt 3. This is for serious users, the word Enterprise is the giveaway. You can also use it across Mac and Windows computers via a re-format for Win.

LACIE 6/12 big

Thunderbolt originally combined a DisplayPort with the serial data that plug-in PCIe cards use to communicate with the host computer. Basically, it’s a way of externalising the signals that internal PCIe cards have used for the last decade or so. Unfortunately, internal cards get to access several of these serial data streams, making them very fast, so Thunderbolt has had some catching up to do. Thunderbolt 3 essentially combines four PCIe 3.0 channels, DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 2.0 and USB 3.1 gen 2 into a single connector. It can shift data at twice the rate of Thunderbolt 2 – 40Gbit/s. It can also supply up to 100W of power to the external device.

LACIE 2BIG DOCK

LaCie 2big Dock features Seagate IronWolf Pro drives and RAID optimisation for power management and reliability. And if all that isn’t enough there’s a five year limited warranty included on your system.

LEXAR 512GB CFast card

We tested the Lexar in Blackmagic’s URSA Mini – well known for being cruel to CFast cards. It easily handled the data rates for 4.6k Lossless RAW up to 30 frames-per-second – for frame rates above that you need to use Dual Card mode (as you do with all CFast cards). Once the data is compressed – Raw, ProRes (or DNxHR when it comes) – you’re good to go at all frame rates with a single card. With the CODEX adapter in ARRI’s ALEXA XT, and the AMIRA, this card supports ProRes 4444 up to 120fps (3.2k).

 

OWC DOCK THUNDERBOLT 3

Getting down and dirty with the ports available; on the front of the device you’ve only the three ports available, a SD card reader, expanded analog audio in/out to connect speakers and microphones and a USB 3.1 port which will give you 5Gb/s data speed as well as power to your devices. Turning her over and you have; 4X USB 3.1 ports, a S/PDIF digital audio interface, blast from the past FireWire 800 for your old devices, gigabit Ethernet, Dual Thunderbolt 3 ports and a mini Display port.

SAMSUNG 2TB SSD T3 SSD

In this series we’ve looked at the way SSD media has been so popular that even camera owners whose primary recording media isn’t SSD have found a way of using them via adapters. There is also a large and growing number of shooters who have circumvented camera manufacturers who don’t have SSD bays in their cameras by using SSD-based monitor/recorders.

QUANTUM stornext 6

There is a high level of automation involved and even articial intelligence which is part of their StorNext 6 product. The data management can optimise capacity through automated storage tiering. This means reducing the need for costly primary storage. Files can be automatically and transparently moved from flash, to tape, object storage or the cloud — all while optimising performance and maintaining high availability.

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My work involves demonstrating Avid Artist Suite audio solutions to our customers at trade shows, local events, and to individuals. I travel a lot and need a robust and reliable solution. My previous generation LaCie d2 drive has been with me to trade shows and events in the U.S., Japan, China, Thailand, and Germany. But I’ve recently upgraded to the new 6 TB LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 2 drive with the 128 GB d2 SSD Upgrade, using the drive for my extensive sample library and demo sessions.

I have the two drives formatted as a hybrid drive to give me the best of both worlds: high capacity and high performance. My sample library takes up around 4 TB of the drive, and it’s essential that these samples load as quickly as possible, especially when it’s a full orchestra! I also keep my demo sessions, which can contain up to 500 tracks of audio and HD video, on the same drive….[continue reading]