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Iodyne Pro Data 24TB review: $15K, ridiculous speed, and probably not for you

AppleInsider·Mike Wuerthele·about 1 month ago
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The Iodyne Pro Data 24TB delivers enormous uninterrupted transfer speed, isn't network attached, and it isn't limited to one user. It's also a $14,995 wallet-breaking money-saver for the right audience. It's not every day we get a second loaner for a review product years after the fact. The market has changed, workflows have changed, since we first reviewed the Iodyne Pro Data. Video workflows are getting bigger and bigger with 8K HDR 3D, and so forth. A single iPod like the Lord of the Rings dailies were shuttled around on are a thing of the past. Thunderbolt 5 isn't as fast as it could be. The media inside is impacted by cache and slow writes as that cache fills up with large transfers. The Iodyne Pro Data aims to let the user have their cake and eat it too. It is, in effect, a giant external drive that can be accessed by multiple Macs at the same time. All at Thunderbolt speeds, uninterrupted by full caches, and not throttled by transferring over a network. It's costly, of course.…

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