San Jose, CA—Western Digital introduced new solutions from its SanDisk and SanDisk Professional lineups at IBC 2023. The new products expand the ecosystem of digital content storage solutions for the broadcasting, media and entertainment industry.
The pro-grade products include two new desktop hard drive solutions and a memory card. Moreover, all offer the quality required for production-level video workflows.
“Western Digital helps creators in the production industry to address data challenges caused by the increased use of artificial intelligence, special effects and the transition from 4K to 8K and 12K,” said Ruben Dennenwaldt, head of Product Marketing and Marketing Operations EU/CIS, Western Digital. “These latest additions to our SanDisk brand and SanDisk Professional line specifically offer the high efficiency, high performance, high reliability and high scalability needed to help enable digital content creators to seamlessly integrate these solutions into their unique processes and elevate their workflow to achieve Hollywood-level quality results whether they are on the go, on location, or in the office/editing bay.”
New SanDisk and SanDisk Professional Products
SanDisk Pro-Cinema CFexpress Type B Card
With minimum sustained write speeds of 1,400MB/s, the SanDisk Pro-Cinema CFexpress Type B card lets you capture cinema-quality 8K video without dropping frames. Its durable enclosure can withstand a drop from 3.3 feet as well as up to 11.2 pounds-force of pressure to help protect footage and videos.
In addition, you can pair the Pro-Cinema CFexpress Type B card with the SanDisk Professional Pro-Reader CFexpress and the Pro-Dock 4 devices (sold separately). This will give you scalable, simultaneous offloads that help to maximize productivity.
The SanDisk Pro-Cinema CFexpress Type B card will launch this fall. Suggested retail prices start at $399.99 for the 320GB card with a limited lifetime warranty.
SanDisk Professional G-Drive Project
The Thunderbolt 3 interface delivers superior performance and supports daisy-chain for up to five devices for building diverse digital content creation workflows. It is also compatible with USB 3.2 Gen 2.
SanDisk Professional’s 7200RPM Ultrastar enterprise-class hard drive delivers up to 22-terabyte capacity and 260MB/s read/write speeds. Further, the SanDisk Professional G-Drive Project is available now starting at SRPs of $369.99 for the 6TB version with a five-year limited warranty.
SanDisk Professional G-Raid Mirror
This line provides up to 44TB of max capacity (22TB in default RAID 1) on two 7200RPM Ultrastar enterprise-class hard drives for tough workloads and archiving crucial content. Western Digital says it allows “users to back up their life’s work and live fearlessly knowing their most important files are in one place.”
In addition, there is a mirror mode for peace of mind. It ships in RAID 1 so content is automatically duplicated onto the second drive for worry-free data redundancy. You can also change to JBOD or RAID 0 by flipping a switch—no need to download an app or install special software.
Further, you can offload, make copies or edit content from a Pro-Blade SSD mag (sold separately) at even faster speeds.
The SanDisk Professional G-Raid Mirror is now available for preorder. SRPs start at $659.99 for the 12TB version with a five-year limited warranty.
