SSD

    Sharge is a tiny, fast and durable portable SSD for shooting on location
    Jun 21, 2023 John Aldred

    M.2 NVMe SSDs have been out for long enough now that they’re starting to be replaced. Smaller 512GB and 1TB SSDs are being replaced by…

    Toshiba Canvio Slim – Is it still worth getting a USB hard drive in 2023?
    May 9, 2023 John Aldred

    If there’s one constant as a photographer or filmmaker, you can never have enough storage space. No matter how much storage we already have, we…

    Not surprisingly, those “30 terabyte” SSDs you can buy at Walmart and AliExpress are all a scam
    Aug 30, 2022 John Aldred

    It’s probably not that much of a surprise to most of us who actually use large storage drives but there seems to be a big…

    SanDisk Professional launches the PRO-BLADE modular and portable SSD ecosystem for creatives
    May 9, 2022 John Aldred

    Western Digital has today announced the new SanDisk Professional PRO-BLADE modular SSD ecosystem targeted toward creatives. It comprises the PRO-BLADE SSD Mag, available in 1-4TB…

    You might cut your CFexpress card costs in half by using an M.2 NVMe SSD in this adapter
    Apr 22, 2022 John Aldred

    As the drop-in replacement for XQD and the logical successor to CFast 2.0, CFexpress is the hot new format that’s most definitely here to stay….

    The world’s first 200TB SSDs are coming in 2022 but you probably can’t afford it
    Apr 8, 2022 John Aldred

    200TB SSDs are currently in development according to Nimbus Data CEO Thomas Isakovich, who told TechRadar that they’re actively working on a 200TB SSD to…

    How to back up your photos and video on location the easy way with a smartphone and an SSD
    Nov 1, 2021 John Aldred

    I’ve been through various iterations of location backup workflows over the years. When I started out with DSLRs back in 2002 I was using the…

    This massive 16TB external SSD offers speeds up to 2,800MB/sec and costs a whopping $3,300
    Jun 22, 2021 John Aldred

    Sometimes, you just need a whole lot of external storage and you need it to be really, really fast – especially if you’re shooting video….

    This drive holds 2 Terabytes and it’s the size of a credit card
    Oct 25, 2020 Udi Tirosh

    I remember when my office had a 10-Megabytes drive (Mega, with an M). It was (give or take) the size and weight of a car…

    How to use Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on a PC
    Oct 22, 2020 Udi Tirosh

    Working with video often requires big storage and fast speeds. Here, we use SSDs to either capture the video directly (like with the BMPCC) or…