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Data & DIT
Cards, readers, shuttle drives and the RAID it all lands on — the cart between camera and edit.
23 products · 5 groups · 12 makers
Cards
- Angelbird AV PRO CFexpress 4.0 Type B 1TB — Sustained write that does not drop a frame on a long take
- ProGrade Digital CFexpress 4.0 Type B — The card rental houses keep buying
- SanDisk Extreme PRO CFexpress Type B 1TB — Fast enough for raw, in most cine bodies
- SanDisk Extreme PRO CFexpress Type A 160GB — The card an FX3 and an FX6 want, and the only kind they take
- SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC V90 256GB — V90, which is what 4K 10-bit actually needs from an SD card
Readers
- Angelbird CFexpress dual-slot reader — Two cards at once, which halves a DIT’s evening
- OWC Atlas CFexpress reader — Bus-powered, metal, and it does not throttle when it gets hot
- ProGrade Digital CFexpress Type B reader — Offloads at the card’s speed instead of the laptop slot’s
Shuttle drives
- OWC Envoy Pro FX 2TB — Bus-powered Thunderbolt that will cut off it, not just carry it
- Samsung T9 portable SSD 4TB — The shuttle drive rushes go home on
- Samsung T7 Shield 4TB — Rubber-armoured pocket SSD for rushes
- Angelbird AtomX SSDmini 1TB — The drive an Atomos recorder wants
- Samsung T9 portable SSD 2TB — Record to it, cut off it, post it
RAID & archive
- mLogic mTape LTO-9 — Tape, because an archive on spinning disks is not an archive
- Synology DiskStation DS1823xs+ — Shared storage for a cutting room of two or three
- OWC ThunderBay 8 — Eight bays for a feature that will not fit on four
- OWC ThunderBay 4 — Four bays of Thunderbolt storage for rushes
- Glyph Atom RAID SSD 4TB — Two drives striped in a pocket — a set backup that is not a single drive
- QNAP TS-464 NAS — Four bays of shared storage for a two-editor room
- LaCie 2big RAID 16TB — Mirrored archive that survives one dead disk
- Synology DiskStation DS923+ — The four-bay a small cutting room shares its rushes from
Carts & monitoring
- Inovativ Voyager 36 EVO cart — The cart the DIT works off, and it folds into a car
- Hedge Offload station bundle — Checksummed copies to two places at once, which is the whole job
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