Plugable, a leading manufacturer of USB, Thunderbolt, and Bluetooth devices has released a fast portable SSD capable of eye-popping speed aimed at the filmmaker on the go. With Thunderbolt 3 and NVMe technology, they are pushing past previous limits on storage speed. A Blazing Fast Portable SSD for Filmmakers Internal SSDs in computers have been getting faster and faster, but external drives have fallen behind. That’s because until very recently, external SSDs haven’t taken advantage of NVMe technology. Ask anyone who has built a custom PC in the last couple of years – when it comes to fast and reliable storage, NVMe is the good stuff. When SSDs were first introduced, they were built to fit seamlessly into working environments designed for standard spinning-disk drives. They connected through a SATA connection, which works fine for hard disks but wasn’t designed to keep up with increasingly-fast solid-state drives. Enter: NVMe storage. The old SATA connection suffers from latency (a lag between input and output) because of its indirect connection to the CPU. You can think of it as basically travel time. Newer NVMe drives with an M.2 connector have a straight shot in with almost no latency. But more than that, they aren’t bottlenecked by the slower SATA connection. To give a sense of scale, SATA connections can only carry about 550 MB/s (source). The Plugable Thunderbolt 3 Drive clocks in at 2800 MB/sec read and 1800 MB/sec write. That’s about 4x the speed of a traditional SATA drive like the popular...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 13 November, 2019