Western Digital, here are the new external Thunderbolt 3 SSD
Presented by WD a new range of external professional SSDs equipped with a Thunderbolt 3 interface, intended for the world of video editing, but not only. There are three commercialized series, characterized by prices, performances and very varied capacities.
Talking about data-storage today is very complicated if you do not go down a little in detail. They range from corporate cloud storage to USB dongles, through traditional hard disks, SSDs with the most varied interfaces or even part of these things all together in one system.
The premise is important because the series presented by Western Digital have a precise target, namely that of those who work with high and very high resolution videos, in motion, with very high demands both in terms of performance and in terms of capacity.
Filming or working with 4K or even 8K video undermines any storage system, omitting the computing power that revolves around this world. It is not unusual for a crew in charge of filming something to stay in the location for a while.
If you count, then that a day of work in multi-camera 4K and 8K can mean having put aside something like 3 or 4TB of movies every day, it is clear that you need something that can keep up. The three series of external WD SSDs with Thunderbolt 3 interface are born to respond to these specific needs.
WD G-DRIVE mobile Pro SSD boasts a transfer rate of 2,800 MB/s via the single Thunderbolt 3 interface, 500GB or 1TB capacities and requires no external power supply. Made of aluminum, goe of a 5 year warranty. It’s the less capacious solution of the lot, but it boasts the possibility to operate far from an electrical outlet, all with transfer speed that can really make the difference when fighting time. Prices in US Dollars are $659.95 for the 500GB, $1,049.95 for the 1TB model, available this summer.
WD G-DRIVE Pro SSD, which in the code loses the ” mobile “, is credited with the same transfer rate as the mobile version (2800MB / s), which allows to store or move 1TB of data in about 7 minutes. The Thunderbolt 3 port is double in this case: up to 5 other devices can be connected in cascade. The G-DRIVE Pro SSD will arrive in May at 960GB ($ 1,399.95), 1.92TB ($ 2,099.95), 3.84TB ($ 4,099.95) and 7.68TB ($ 7,599.95) USD.
WD G-SPEED Shuttle SSD is a similar NAS, more cluttered than the previous ones, which provides higher capacities. Unlike the previous, model adopts as many as 8 removable SSDs inside that can be configured in RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and 50.
The capacity can reach 16TB with the same performance as the previous ones, making it ready for multi-stream HD, 4K, 8K, VR and VFX. It already arrives this month in the 8TB ($5,099.95) and 16TB ($7,599.95) denominations.
- A transportable design for easy travel from studio to location and back
- Sustained transfer rates up to 2800MB/s
- Optimized to support multi-stream 4K, 8K and VR workflows
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