G-Tech G-SPEED Shuttle XL: Not all storage is the same

If you are getting into editing 4K footage or higher, you'll definitely need RAID for speed. Take a look at this article from RedShark News on the rugged, portable, 8-bay G-SPEED Shuttle XL with Thunderbolt 3 connectivity. It's a fantastic RAID solution for huge workflows that happen on location or that require safe portability: From RedSharkNews

...When you're working on set, you need more than speed and capacity: you need redundancy, ruggedness and transportability. That, it seems to me, is what the G|SPEED SHUTTLE XL is designed for.

It's a hardware-RAIDed disk storage unit with eight slots that can be populated with as much as 96 Terabytes of Enterprise Leel fast drives. The combination of fast disks, hardware RAID and Thunderbolt 3 means that you can expect a transfer rate of up to 2,000 Megabytes per second.

The beauty of the G|SPEED SHUTTLE XL is that all of this is transportable....[continue reading]