16 terabytes of lightning-fast external storage for your photos

Wednesday 23 June 2021, 20:20 by Elja Trum | 5,382 views | 1 comment

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Fast storage is very useful if you want to edit your photos as quickly as possible. Want the ultimate option? The Sabrant Rocket XTRM-Q could be for you, with 16 terabytes of storage and speeds of 2,500 megabytes per second.

For comparison, a traditional hard drive runs at around 100 to 200 megabytes per second.

This external drive combines speed with a substantial amount of storage space. Ideal, of course, for your complete photo archive.

The enclosure contains two 8-terabyte M.2 NVMe SSDs. You can run them in RAID 1, so you always have a copy of your files. This means that only 8 terabytes is available, of course.

If you are willing to take a little more risk, and have good backups, you can also use the drive in RAID 0. The data is written to both drives simultaneously, allowing you to achieve the maximum speed.

If something goes wrong with one of the two drives, you immediately lose all your data.

For maximum speed, you need to connect the drive using Thunderbolt, but with USB you can still reach speeds of up to 900 megabytes per second. A bigger drawback may be that the drive requires an external power adapter. This is particularly cumbersome if you want to use it on the go.

You will have seen the downside coming, of course: the price. The Sabrant costs 2,899.99 dollars. It is also not currently available in the Netherlands, but that should change soon.

Via: Petapixel

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