[Geoff Birmingham]

BTW, I latched onto the multidock idea because a review of the LaCie wasn’t crazy about it for editing and suggested the multidock. Not sure was a “SATA 3 SSD” is…

If you want speed, the BlackMAgic Multidock2 with SSD drives is really fast. Format with Mac Raid settings and it will amaze.. I transferred a terabyte between the 12 TB 2 big and the Black Magic Multidock 2 in 30 minutes on Thunderbolt 2 using my MAC PRO that came out in January and two fast 6 mbps. SATA 3 SSD’s.

[Geoff Birmingham]

Thanks for your thoughts, Glenn. Didn’t know about greater speed with extra drives. Something to consider, as well as Qnap. And yes, codecs matter. In this case, I actually am using sony mxfs!

[Geoff Birmingham]

Good to know! So MacBook Pro with M1 Pro chip. And you’re doing 4K with it, I presume?

[Geoff Birmingham]

I will just add: I think it’ll be much easier to chase down work as a video producer, rather than as an editor. I started as a freelance editor, and it was hard to string together enough work. And that’s when I decided to produce AND edit (I hire freelancers to be my filming crew as needed). If you learn how to make your own videos – soup to nuts – then you can get paid for both! Way more profitable than what the producer will pay you to edit his or her videos. And there are a lot of producers (like myself) who don’t hire out. Edit their own video.

Long and short: focus on becoming a producer/editor, not just an editor.

[Geoff Birmingham]

Really? I have usb 3, but a quick google search tells me that thunderbolt 3 (assuming the laptops my camera people are using have thunderbolt 3 ports) has a transfer speed of 40Gbps.

Transferring with a usb c drive attached to my computer, according to Google, is 10 Gbps. And, besides, even if I have a usb c attached to my usb 3 port, aren’t I still going to get usb 3 speeds, which is even slower?

Regardless, I don’t see how a usb c drive attached to my computer is the same as a thunderbolt 3 attached to a tb3 port on a newer laptop, unless I’ve misunderstood what you’re saying.

[Geoff Birmingham]

Thanks for the response, Neil. I’m basically getting the thunderbolt 3 to make my camera people happy, so they can download their footage faster using THEIR newer laptops with my thunderbolt drive.

Until the M1 version of the Mac Pro comes out, my process is painful. Thunderbolt 3 > adaptor > early 2015 laptop > USB 3 drive and then plug that USB 3 into my old 2014 Mac Pro. Ouch.

Anyway, to connect my thunderbolt 3 drive into my laptop, these are the items I would need??

Plug male end of drive cable into this adaptor: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1294286-REG/apple_mmel2am_a_thunderbolt_3_to_thunderbolt.html

and then run this between the adaptor and thunderbolt 2 port of my laptop:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1139474-REG/apple_md862ll_a_thunderbolt_cable_1_6.html

Thanks again, Geoff

[Geoff Birmingham]

Cool. Will be interested to hear your thoughts.

[Geoff Birmingham]

Yes. Agreed. Very thorough and helpful, so thanks for taking the time to write this up, Doug. And it kind of confirms what you told me before, Bob, that Storinator software isn’t intuitive. For folks like me who are decent with technology but not pros (and who want to spend their time doing other things rather than troubleshooting), sounds like QNAP is probably the better choice.

[Geoff Birmingham]

Yeah. 4K seems nuts. And if you’re giving that kind of material to parents, they likely aren’t going to have anyway to work with it on their own. But regular old HD is something that most folks, tooling around with iMovie on their laptops, can manage.

[Geoff Birmingham]

I could do that, or just hire him to help me with installation 😉