The image editing and previews have been plenty fast for my needs. I actually consolidated images from a couple of other drives (including one of the G-Drive Minis) in order to push it all on one drive. I’ve been working with a library with thousands of images in Lightroom with a WD drive for the past month or so. As a result, I won’t hesitate to pack a pair of 2TB WD My Passport Studio drives over 3-4 G-Drives for extended trips where I’m working with photos or videos. That said, the size difference between the drives is a big factor when you’re trying to travel light. Although, multi-cam editing will sneak up on the WD drives a little faster than the G-Drives. With the compressed HD footage and uncompressed SD footage that I’m generally working with, I don’t notice a real dip in performance between video editing with either drive. And, with cameras like the Nikon D800 pumping out 36MP files, gigabytes are starting to go faster and faster in the photo world as well. However, 750GB doesn’t last very long in video world. When I need to dump and edit footage away from my office, it goes on the G-Drive Mini. This particular G-Drive Mini is a 750GB drive spinning at 7200rpm and serves as my primary video-on-the-go asset drive. When I first plugged in the WD 2TB FireWire 800 drives, I was a little disappointed at what I saw with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. WD gets a lot of speed out of the 5400rpm drives inside this tiny chassis and gives the FireWire connection a pretty good push. Fortunately though, the increased capacity of smaller drives like the new My Passport Studio means that I can pack around a pair of 2TB drives and get a whole lot more mileage out of a smaller footprint in my bag and on my desk. I’ve had up to 5 individual bus-powered drives daisy-chained at a single time. As a result, daisy-chaining is the only option. The dual port feature is an important one considering that the current MacBook Pros only offer a single FireWire 800 port. The drive’s external shell is mix of silver and black aluminum, which goes along nicely with the current MacBook motif.Īs with with recent iterations of Western Digital’s FireWire 800 drives, the new My Passport Studio drives sport dual FW800 ports, allowing you to daisy chain multiple devices and only use a single port on your computer. WD recently sent me a pair of the new drives to try out.
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The new Western Digital My Passport Studio drives for Mac users sleek and compact (particularly when you consider we’re getting 2TB of storage). If there’s one thing that photo and video shooters can’t get enough of, it’s storage space for the growing file sizes we’re dealing with. The latest bus-powered compact drives are available in capacities up to 2TB.
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