For as long as we’ve been shooting to card-based media, we’ve needed a way to download that media to hard drives or other backup sources on set. If we’re going to format that camera card and keep shooting with it, we need to make at least two copies on set. While there are a ton of solutions for the big productions, for indie shoots there isn’t really a solid download station right now. Into that hole in the market comes the Orico Data Matrix, which could possibly be the “single unit” download system we need.What is the Orico Data Matrix?The Orico Data Matrix is a single-box system that connects to your laptop via Thunderbolt. Inside is some combination of multiple hard drives, including a super-fast SSD drive and then a redundant HDD setup. It also has additional Thunderbolt and USB ports for accessories and a front-facing SD card slot for direct downloading.What is the Workflow Like?The thing that makes this particularly interesting is the combination of SSD media and HDD media in a single physical box. This means that, with the HDD drives setup to RAID 1 (our preferred format), two hard drives appear on your computer desktop. One SSD and one raided HDD. The HDD raid has two identical copies of all media on it (so if one drive fails, you have a backup), and appears as a single drive on your desktop.This combination makes for an interesting solution when you are running short of cards. Most of the time,...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 5 February