Storage

Budget shared storage from Small Tree Communications at NAB 2013

After a request on Twitter for budget shared storage and a lot of good words from Walter Biscardi, we went to check out Small Tree Communications. Steve Modica took us on a tour of their models.  

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CalDigit announce the new 3 drive bay T3 drive and a Thunderbolt Station

More new drives and more flexibility at NAB 2013. CalDigit announce their new SSD/HDD mix and match 3 bay T3 drive and a new Thunderbolt expansion station.

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New Pegasus R6 RAID capacity and the new VTrak A Class from Promise Technology

Promise Technology have announced a drive size update to their popular Pegasus R6 Thunderbolt RAID and they've also announced the new VTrak A-Class 'SAN in a box.'

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Two new storage products from G-Tech, one with secret sauce!

We are big fans of G-Technology storage and use their products on a day to day basis, in fact we are using a Thunderbolt drive of theirs right here at NAB. They had two new products on the stand so we thought we would take a look as one has some special ingredients.

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Testing out the Hitachi 8TB G-Raid Thunderbolt Array Drive

In the FCP.co office we were looking at storage options as our new Macs all have Thunderbolt ports. When we found out there was over 30% off the G-Technology G-Raid 8 Terabyte Thunderbolt Drive, the credit card didn't stay in the wallet for long! 

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The Promise Pegasus R4 Thunderbolt RAID user review

There has been a lot of debate on our Forum about the best RAIDs, configuration, speed, brands and so on. So it was very positive when we came across this excellent concise user review of the Promise Pegasus R4.

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The Thunderbolt storage roundup from IBC 2012

There is Thunderbolt everywhere at IBC 2012 and we thought we would look at the storage vendors that are relevant to the Final Cut Pro market and catch up on new models, new capacities, new speeds and even a skydiver dropping a unit mid dive too.

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Share your media assets locally or on the cloud the simple way with Axle

We have tried quite a few asset management systems here at FCP.co and they all have one thing in common, they are complicated. Axle Video may have the answer to individuals and companies who want a simple way to share assets.

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20 Metre and 30 Metre Optical Thunderbolt cables from Sumitomo

There is no doubt that Thunderbolt is changing our industry, but up until now long cable runs were impossible. Now you'll be able to have your Thunderbolt devices more than 3 metres apart thanks to Sumitomo.

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G-Technology ship the Thunderbolt G-RAID and announce the Thunderbolt G-Drive

Another Thunderbolt product shipping and a brand new Thunderbolt product announced at the show for G-Technology. Seems Thunderbolt is becoming the only way to connect to local storage.

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Promise announce the J2 drive - It's small and very fast

Straight on our Christmas wish list this year (After the Blackmagic Cinema Camera) are these two portable Thunderbolt drives from Promise, the J4 and the J2.

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Stop your disks spinning down whilst editing with Disksomnia from Digital Heaven

Tired of waiting for your disks to spin back up to speed when you've not accessed them for a while from your NLE? The new version of Disksomnia from Digital Heaven will keep them ready.

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Best practices for using Final Cut pro X with Xsan

One of the big stumbling blocks for the acceptance of Final Cut Pro X with professional editors has been its use on shared storage. Apple have published a white paper of Xsan Best Practices, it makes interesting reading.

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Western Digital previews its 6TB My Book Thunderbolt Duo storage at MacWorld

Western Digital are the latest company to show off their new Thunderbolt products. The good news is that they have two ports so they can be daisy chained together or have data looped through.

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Video Space an iOS disk space calculator from Digital Rebellion

Digital Rebellion have launched Video Space for the iPhone and iPad, a disk space calculator for media storage.

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Active Storage launch mMedia - a complete end to end workflow solution

Two new products from Active Storage under the mMedia banner. The 48TB mRAID for online storage and the 108TB mVault for near-line storage.

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Free shared storage 'Shootout' webinar from ProMAX

With Apple announcing support for shared storage this week for FCPX, ProMAX have timed this free webinar rather well.

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CalDigit show Thunderbolt connectivity with ThunderExpress

CalDigit have announced their ThunderExpress PCIe adaptor, their first Thunderbolt product. This unit allows you to connect one of their three PCIe RAIDs to any Mac, Windows or Linux machine that has a Thunderbolt port.

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G-Technology show their monster 8TB Thunderbolt hard drive prototype at IBC

We can't believe we read a tweet this morning saying that there weren't any new Thunderbolt products on display at IBC. Maybe they didn't go past the G-Technology stand and catch sight of this 8TB monster prototype.

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New bigger Thunderbolt drive for LaCie, price and ship date for Little Big Disk

When we first saw the announcement about Thunderbolt we knew it would change the industry. We met up with Clément Barberis from LaCie to look at the Little Big Disk and its new Thunderbolted big brother.

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