If you are a runner, or if you watched the Paris Olympic marathoners trying to keep cool with special clothing, ice packs and water, it’s pretty clear that heat slows you down.
If you’re a DIT, DP, AC, creator or crew rushing to download the day’s footage onto an off-the-shelf SSD, you know that heat can also slow transfers down, often to a frustrating crawl.
Now there’s a super fast SSD that can take the heat: iodyne Pro Mini. It launches on September 10, 2024. Incidentally, iodyne is the company that also makes Pro Data Thunderbolt storage (NVMe 12/24/48TB 5 GB/s SSDs.) The name iodyne comes from “i/o” like in/out, and “dyne,” a unit of force, as in dynamic.
Pro Mini is iodyne’s smart drive, about the size of your iPhone, developed specifically for cinema production and photography. Think of it as a Thunderbolt shuttle drive with sophisticated features—speedy, sustained read/write speeds; Passkey authentication, security and encryption, digital labeling and Find My tracking. It comes in 4TB or 8TB capacities.
iodyne Pro Mini details
- Sustained 3+ GB/s read/write speeds. Encryption and internal RAID protection is enabled full-time. This is about two to ten times faster than typical SSDs.
- Pro Mini uses solid-state AirJet Mini active cooling chips by Frore Systems. Tiny membranes vibrate silently at ultrasonic frequencies to generate a powerful air flow, while still staying protected against water, dust and moisture particles as small as 0.3μm.
- Digital Label. No more writing on tape with a Sharpie. Pro Mini’s Digital Label identifies each drive in E-Paper style.
- Find My Tracking. Find your Pro Mini drives easily with Apple and Google Find My Device networks.
- Device Passkeys. Who can remember all those passwords for all those drives? Pro Mini uses secure Passkeys.
- Manage all your Pro Minis. With iodyne Cloud’s new Fleet Management service, you can set up and manage individual and groups of Pro Mini and Pro Data devices—locally or remotely.
- Hardware-accelerated RAID-6 data protection.
- Hardware-accelerated XTS-AES-256 encryption.
- Bus-powered. Plug directly into your computer—works with USB2.x, USB3.x, and USB 4 / Thunderbolt.
- Metadata can be accessed through NFC or Cloud.
- Weatherproof, durable, machined and anodized aluminum chassis.
- In IBC Hall 6 Booth A22.
