Had my first Samsung SSD Fail, a 2TB SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD

I had gotten this as a backup for my Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 6K Pro (my main drive is a Samsung T5) so I had not really used it, especially once the whole thing of SanDisk drives failing, I didn’t really use it.

Then Western Digital came out with the serial number chacker and my drive passed, so decided to use it for a project I was color correcting on my iPad Pro. I worked on a quick color correct on a short for a couple of days, and then tried to move the project back to my Mac.

I opened the project in DaVinci and re-linked the media and started going down the timeline, and got about 10 shots in, when the drive disconnected. I tried reconnecting it and it came back up, and stayed online for a few minutes, then disconnected.

Now I basically used the drive only because Western Digital said it wasn’t a bad one. So they say they are giving me an RMA and when I return the drive they will send a replacement. Nothing about the media I lost. And will I trust a new one? Not really. Maybe I can use it as a Media Cache, as if I lose renders who cares, but for anything important no damn way!

SanDisk should pull these drives completely and return our money, and a bonus for the lost media. I will never use another SanDisk Drive. How can I trust them.

Thunderbolt 5 is announced with double the speed of 4, and triple for video!

You can read about it at AppleInsider or also the Thunderbolt experts at OWC.

I love that it will continue using the USB C port, but the fact that it allows so much more power scares me as it means hubs will be even more expensive, and I use so little in powered from the ports. I would love the speed though, and even better for video, so you could get better resolution at higher frame rates.

And you know this will show up in an Apple product first, maybe the next Mac Studio? That would make sense to me.

Apple announced the iPhone 15 Pro and it will shoot Spacial Video for Apple Vision Pro

So Apple has announced the iPhone 15 Pro, and it has some pretty interesting video features, from being able to record to an external hard drive (at higher rez) better low light, and later this year it will be able to shoot Spatial Video for the Apple Vision Pro.

Coming later this year, iPhone 15 Pro will add a new dimension to video capture with the ability to record spatial video for Apple Vision Pro. Users will be able to capture precious moments in three dimensions and relive those memories with incredible depth on Apple Vision Pro when it is available early next year in the U.S.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/apple-unveils-iphone-15-pro-and-iphone-15-pro-max/

So it will be able to shoot 3D footage? Or is it 2D with a depth map, like Portrait mode, which could be very exciting for compositing.

I was actually wondering if they were going to use the depth map of portrait mode to make 3D photos for the Vision Pro since you can already make them 3D in Facebook, and since it is Apple photos, Apple must be able to do that as well.