iodyne, developer of fast Thunderbolt storage, has released Windows support in its portable NVMe iodyne Pro Data drives opening up secure multi-platform camera-to-edit workflows.
iodyne, developer of fast Thunderbolt storage for professional media applications, has developed and released Windows support in its portable NVMe iodyne Pro Data drives. This update opens up secure multi-platform camera-to-edit workflows for editors, colourists, VFX artists, animators and DITs.
"With this update, production teams can have one editor working in Avid Media Composer on a Mac, two different editors working in Adobe Premiere Pro on Windows, while a colourist might be working in DaVinci Resolve, all collaborating on a single Pro Data the size of a laptop computer – all working from the same files at the same time in 8K RAW at full speed, fully encrypted," said Martin Christien, Director of Workflow at iodyne.
Windows support is available to current iodyne customers through a free update to their existing Pro Data units. With speed, security and reliability as priorities, Pro Data now stands out as storage with Thunderbolt NVMe multipathing on Windows, amounting to eight Thunderbolt ports with support for up to four upstream paths to either Mac and/or Windows computers, and four downstream to additional Pro Data units or other devices.
Pro Data Thunderbolt storage is also unusual for its support for the accelerated Windows DirectStorage API. This Microsoft API can speed up data access time further in compatible apps, reducing the processor's load by a large margin.
iodyne’s Pro Data can handle multipathing and multiple operating systems at the same time with up to four Thunderbolt-connected computers – that is, supporting multiple PCs to Pro Data to enable collaboration on a single copy of users’ data.
Containerising project data is supported as well. Users can work with multiple containers, all within the same storage device, in order to allow working on separate projects or computers. Hardware RAID-6 and enterprise-grade encryption can be maintained while sustaining performance.
Atlantic Productions, a production studio that produces projects in collaborations with major broadcasters and streamers such as BBC and Meta, field-tested Pro Data Windows support on a recent project they ingested on Macs and edited on PCs.
"We processed over 15TB of video media, including 8K Prores Proxy, 8K H.265 and 12K BlackMagic Raw files on Pro Data. We were depending on Pro Data's speed for the edit, as our files – even in proxy format – are enormous. We also need cross-platform functionality, high speed and security for our partners," said Steve Cullen, Head of IT, at Atlantic Productions. "The compact iodyne Pro Data form factor is a huge advantage on a location relative to other storage we've tried in the past. The great thing about Pro Data now that we own them is the ability to reuse them on other projects once we're done with this one."
"Pro Data kept the team working smoothly together on our Netflix multicam production. It let us connect more than one user to each RAID, allowing fast, collaborative data management, and the ability to connect more than one Thunderbolt cable to increase transfer speeds also made a tremendous difference to meeting deadlines," said Justin Warren, Digital Imaging Technician, IATSE Local 600.
