SSD Drives

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Dan,

Are you looking for internal or external SSD drives?

Are you editing on PC or Mac?

And, what format is your footage, Proxy, 2K, 4K..?

I currently use Samsung T7 (rugged at 1050 Mbps) and Samsung T9 (Roughly 2000 Mbps).
Both of these drives can also be used as external recording media on some cameras, like Blackmagic.

My last buy, recently, was a T9 4TB, which was for a last minute back-up.

There are some good 2TB offers in the Black Friday / Monday Cyber sale.

One thing to watch out for is that the different colors of the T7 sometimes sell at reduced pricing. So if you are looking at Blue, do check pricing on the Red and Black…

And if you just want to dip your “toes in the water” maybe head over to Argos and look at the price of the 1TB T7 SSD – at a level where they start competing against delivering to client on Digi-Beta (back in the day 😉).

Also, OWC does some nice Thunderbolt boxes that you can hang 4 drives on the back, straight into the computer (Samsung T SSD series, are NOT Thunderbolt, but still running a high capacity).

If looking at internal, the Samsung 990 Pro runs at between 6000 & 7000 Mbps…

Hope that this helps.

Atb
Mads

[Dan Crouch]

Thanks Mads.

I’m using a Mac Studio 1 and am looking for an external drive.

I was thinking about cutting full Rez video, Sony A7 Mk 3 video clips.

We’ve gone for HD to lighten the load.

Thanks again for the help.

Dan

[Kinny Klein]

For Media Composer, consider the Samsung T7 or SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD. Both are fast, reliable, and great for video editing. Look for at least 1TB storage, USB-C compatibility, and a minimum speed of 500 MB/s for smooth performance.