For the speeds the USB3 is reaching, editing Apple ProRes 4444 (41.25 MB/s bitrate) directly from a USB3 disk could be done without dropping frames and should deliver at least 2 streams of data, while Apple ProRes 422 HQ (27.5 MB/s bitrate) would work flawless with even more streams! :D
The fusion drive looks unbelievable, but I'm sure it was reading only from the SSD side, I wonder which could be the speed on real world usage, when media is mixed between both drives.
PS1: By the way, what's the difference between "My Passport" and "My Passport Mac"? The filesystem?
PS2: Thanks for this reviews! You use your Mac as I do at home (Lightroom + Video Editing on FCPx) so this was very helpful. I'm about to change my Mac mini (late 2009) for a new one, I was just waiting for the USB3 connector to do the switch.
Thank you!
For the speeds the USB3 is reaching, editing Apple ProRes 4444 (41.25 MB/s bitrate) directly from a USB3 disk could be done without dropping frames and should deliver at least 2 streams of data, while Apple ProRes 422 HQ (27.5 MB/s bitrate) would work flawless with even more streams! :D
The fusion drive looks unbelievable, but I'm sure it was reading only from the SSD side, I wonder which could be the speed on real world usage, when media is mixed between both drives.
PS1: By the way, what's the difference between "My Passport" and "My Passport Mac"? The filesystem?
PS2: Thanks for this reviews! You use your Mac as I do at home (Lightroom + Video Editing on FCPx) so this was very helpful. I'm about to change my Mac mini (late 2009) for a new one, I was just waiting for the USB3 connector to do the switch.