First impression of the new G-Technology ARMORLOCK
The ARMORLOCK technology makes
use of the existing security on your iPhone, once it’s unlocked, through Bluetooth or when hooked up on your Mac. You’re already using biometric sensing on your phones and your own rigorous security on your computer and you can only have it unlocked on a specific machine. This is done by using an app on your iPhone or downloaded on your Mac. There’s nothing stopping you from using the drive on a PC as long as you have an iPhone. I understand that Android and Windows support is just around the corner. When you pass it across you can
pre-authorise the new user by text message from an iPhone and the user scans in the drive with the QR code and is able to then add the drive to their phone or workstation. And when you send the authorisation, you’re even able to choose read-only access and you can remove that authorisation at any time. As the person who initiates the
drive you retain administrative control throughout the content on the drive’s lifecycle. Once I’d read the instructions, I had it
up and running within five minutes. The app even talks you through it, so it was very straightforward which is exactly
what you need when you’re handing over to creative personnel who are incredibly talented but may not always have the tech support around them to set these things up. And when the job’s finished you just
re-purpose the drives.
Performance On the box it’s up to 1,000 MB/s up
and down* but what really matters to us, the end users, are real world numbers which can change depending on a few factors like the file or operating system that you’re using. At the moment the technology only
runs on Macs although I understand they’re working on other platforms. We mostly work on Macs in our immediate environment. In the test room, we’re getting fairly consistent speeds of about 850 MB/s continuous writing speeds to fill up the entire drive and around about 950 MB/s read speeds for a full read back from the drive. That’s incredibly fast which is particularly useful when dealing with RAW camera files and keeps up with the vast majority of digital cinema cameras. We would typically use them as
transit drives to move media back and forth between the camera and say
the digital lab and we may use them as transit drives to do proxy media between the lab and say editorial.
Rugged and portable Our primary use would be when
you’re pulling the camera media off and you’re ingesting that camera media and you’re backing it up probably to a different SAN of some description or another drive. You’re often in an unforgiving, constantly mobile on-set environment. You could be in the middle of the desert or up a mountain with horizontal rain. The ruggedness of the drive is a key differentiator where having it waterproof and dustproof and able to sustain a knock or two or being dropped is ideal. The main advantage of SSD is that
it’s inherently robust. Some SSDs have issues when it gets too warm and you can lose data. We ‘torture tested’ the ARMORLOCK and it didn’t slow down in performance with continuous read and write speeds over an extended time and without data loss, even at 38 to 40 degrees Celsius. You can run it off the computer (on
battery power) if you’re in the middle of nowhere. It’s portable in the real sense that it’s incredibly light and you can take it everywhere.”
Mission is one of the world’s leading DIT and digital dailies services companies with an exceptional list of feature film and high-end drama credits. Mission’s technicians support many of the world’s most in-demand cinematographers with an explicit agenda to enable the creative team to focus on storytelling with the confidence that the integrity of their vision will be communicated from the point of capture all the way to post. As a business, Mission’s focus is on scalability, consistency and field-ready solutions supported by highly skilled and company trained technicians. Mission’s vision is to better connect the worlds of pre, production, post and VFX within one holistic workflow from data integrity to consistent colour management and efficient VFX metadata collation. The net result? Seamless post and VFX workflows to follow where the savings can be better applied to creative outcomes.
missiondigital.co.uk
G-DRIVE mobile SSD, left, and G-DRIVE mobile Pro SSD complete G-Technology’s range of rugged portable SSDs.
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