Hedge has just released version 22.3 of their offloading software, whose engine has been redesigned to provide faster-verified copies on both macOS and Windows. Moreover, it brings two integrations for Finder and Explorer. The footage we shoot on a daily basis can be far more valuable than the gear we own. In the end, it represents the result of all the efforts (and money) that goes into a production, regardless of its size. That’s why it is essential to have a rock-solid backup strategy. Hedge is a software that helps do just that, as it allows to create simultaneous backups of your footage, from one or more sources, while also verifying the integrity of the process. The software just got significantly faster with version 22.3. Let’s take a quick look! Speed comparison between the old version of Hedge and version 22.3. Source: Hedge Hedge 22.3: faster than ever First launched in 2016, Hedge was initially tailor-made to transfer footage to and from HDD drives. However, these are undeniably giving way to blazingly-fast SSDs and NVMe disks, whose price keeps getting lower, while their capacity increases. Speed comparison against competitors when performing one-to-many backups. Source: Hedge This led the Hedge team to re-think about the engine that runs Hedge. The result of this research & development process, which also involved Sandisk Pro and iodyne, is what the company calls “Speed 2.0”. Speed comparison against Finder when performing many-to-many backups. Source: Hedge The main idea behind Hedge is that of exploiting every...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 21 December, 2022