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NAB 2011: Thunderbolt Storage?
Been keeping a close eye on NAB 2011 with Matrox and BlackMagic Design first out of the gate with Thunderbolt technology including pricing/availability.
Haven’t heard anything new yet on storage since the Thunderbolt Macbook Pros were announced. Anyone at NAB hear anything new on Thunderbolt storage? Anyone stop by the Promise, Lacie, Caldigit, G-Technology or istorage pro booths? Any pricing/availability? Thanks!
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Everything I’ve read is saying that July-ish is when Thunderbolt enabled devices are coming out.
Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
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TBolt storage devices are apparently in use at many of the NAB booths, so that should give some optimism.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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I was at the G-tech booth earlier today and they had they little 4 disk RAID that was running on thunderbolt. It was a tech demo, and I heard that it won’t be available until Q3. As far as I could tell, they had a PCI card connected to the Thunderbolt port, then connected to the RAID. (I might have this backwards, I didnt get that good of a look at it.)
Anyway, they were showing speeds over 500 MB/s using AJA speed test.
moody glasgow
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[moody glasgow] “they were showing speeds over 500 MB/s using AJA speed test.”
That’s pretty good… About 2 to three times faster than most 4-drive units. It suggests that an 8-drive RAID would really speedy. Typical 8-drive hardware raids hit about 450 MB/s, hardware RAIDS with the newer intel chips get 950 plus MB/s, so those may double or triple or maybe even possibly go higher that that.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Wow! This will really be a boon to mobile editing.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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I have a couple of their eSata F2 drives and they are bad ass.
A daisy chainable thunderbolt version will be even more bad assified.
Just making up words here, 🙂
Jeremy
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Fusion™ F2TBR; a Raid0, 500MB/per second array that’s only slightly bigger than two CD cases? That’s crazy cool. Is that puppy bus-powered too? Just slip it into your laptop case with your Macbook Pro and you’re good to go.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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[Jason Jenkins] ” that puppy bus-powered too?”
The eSata ones are powered off a firewire port as there’s no Sata bus power. Thunderbolt has bus power, I do believe. I guess we will have to wait and see.
Jeremy
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Thanks Jeremy! Just wondering now if I should save the money of purchasing a 17″ MBP and just go with a 2011 15″ Macbook Pro without the need of an express card slot…I mainly use the express card slot w/ my mxo2 mini…but now with their Thunderbolt adaptor…hmmm…
All I know is that these are exciting times! FCP 2011, please don’t let us down….
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