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Derek Vanderhorst
Sound Supervisor, Sound Designer
X-Men Origins, 300, Jumper & No Country for Old Men
Over the years we have gone through hundreds of drives alway looking for stable reasonably priced storage. In Audio Post Production for Film we are concerned first with stability and second speed. At 20th Century Fox there is a famous session with 192 tracks of audio stems, each piece being over 20 minutes in length. There are many edits in the audio, but the automation is minimal. This session has become known as the "Drive Killer", and is the session we first use to test the stability and speed of any hard drive we're looking to order. Only a couple of drives have been able to play over 90 of these tracks, so we were anxious to see what the new Thunder Pro 2TB drive from EZQuest could handle. To our amazement we were able to play all 192 tracks for over 30 seconds before the session stopped, and at 164 tracks we were able to play continuously right thru the session. My next test was to take the film I'm working on now which has all 6 reels in one session, over 400 plug-ns and is dense with automation. My session is currently spread over 4 hard drives, so I saved a session with all the media to the EZ Quest AV drive to see if I could even hit play. It played the sessions flawlessly, right throght all the automation points that had me splitting the session between 4 drives. I picked up the phone and ordered 5 Thunder Pro 2TB drives right away, and for this price and this performance, I'm sure there will be many orders to follow.
Dealing with the folks down at EZQuest has always been amazing, and their customer service makes you feel like your dealing with a company that is just starting out, not at the top of their game. Many thanks to everyone down there.
http://movies.nytimes.com/person/331157/Derek-Vanderhorst
Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson Professor and Canada Research Chair
My EZQuest Pro Studio Raid 2K SATA Dual Multi-Lane PCI-Express has been phenomenally reliable for more than two years of heavy use in the capture and processing of uncompressed HD video. This is doubly impressive considering that the unit was a prototype. In processing more than 50 TB of data, there has been only one drive failure, caused by a building power failure. Despite being located in Canada, I received prompt, efficient service resulting in minimal disruption of the workflow of my laboratory. I simply never expected such reliable, high performance at such a low cost.
Brandon Adams / Director of Bread Alone
The drives are fast, cool, and quiet. They worked great for editing HDV, RED, and DPX files. The drives are never the kink in my workflow, especially with eSATA. I appreciate the compact, efficient design and the warning alarm is a life saver.
http://www.breadalonethefilm.com/
Matt / NewTV
"We use (EZQuest) for video editing with Final Cut Pro. We have a number of (EZQuest) external firewire drives that we use and it allows our people the flexibility to move from room to room as necessary and to manage multiple projects using a drive for each project".
Sol-T
Recording Artist
Thunder PRO A/V
As an independent recording artist, I'm always looking for ways to make my overall recording process more efficient and free-flowing; from the fretboard & notepad, straight to the canvas. While music has always been about having fun and getting that release, like most musicians who love their craft, I take the actual 'transfer' of its creative process seriously. Therefore, it's a must that I use equipment that I can not only depend on both in my own studio, but out in the field as well.
This is why I choose to use EZQuest Thunder External Hard Drives. They support my creative processes and don't stiffen-up on me, or bog down the jam session. They're fast accessing, easy to maintain, and safe to throw in the backseat at the drop of a hat - for recording on the road or at a friend's studio. I love being able to record with the push of a button, transfer my files with ease, go between multiple recording sites, and then take the finished product to the final mixdown and master, using just one module - you just can't beat that efficiency!
If you're a recording artist or engineer who would rather spend more time creating new music or devoting more time to life's worthwhile treasures rather than countless hours in the studio working with faulty gear that's not user-friendly, then pick up an EZ-Quest Thunder External Hard Drive and see what the power of cutting-edge technology can buy you and your creativity. I bet my beats you'll never look back. http://www.myspace.com/solt
O'Shea Read, Associate Producer "I Melt With You"
I cannot say enough great things about EZQuest drives. After years of buggy unreliable drives, I have finally found a company/Drive that is not only reliable, but fast! We recently wrapped shooting on the feature "I Melt With You", cutting on Final Cut, and using the EZQuest Studio V for all of our editorial storage. Every day we shot with at least 4 cameras on an 18 day shoot...So you can only imagine the amount of media. Using the Studio V gave me the confidence that our media was safe and secure. We couldn't have finished the film without them. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1063863/
Skip Longfellow First Assistant Sound Editor for Moulin Rouge, X-Men, Max Payne, Tropic Thunder and The A-Team
Thunder Pro A/V Quad Drive
Enclosed is the 1TB Thunder Pro drive you generously let us test for the last month.
We have put the drive though some rigorous tests, asking it to play back the most demanding
ProTools session we have generated to date. Enclosed is a screenshot of this session, carrying
203 tracks, in excess of the 192 tracks ProTools allows to be voiced at a single time. In addition
to being large, the session consists of PreDub and Stem tracks, solid audio tracks conformed to
match studio re-cut of a film project after a preliminary PrintMaster had been completed.
Long, continuous audio tracks are the hardest thing for ProTools to play back without issue. This
session exacerbates that burden with the addition of hundreds of edits in the tracks, which forces
the software to double-buffer the ʻfilesʼ on both sides of the edit. This is a massive session, and
only the most robust systems can even attempt to play it back without interruption.
In short, this session has become a benchmark… and how long it takes the session to fail is our
measure of the robustness of a ProTools system.
At 6 DSP, voicing 192 tracks, we can get the Thunder Pro drive to fail in 5-10 seconds (-9073 aka
ʻdisk to slowʼ). However we found that by reducing the voice count to 144 tracks, we could get
the drive to playback all voiced tracks, sometime playing for several minutes across complicated
re-edited section before stopping. That is no small feat, especially considering both audio and
video were being forced down a single, FireWire 800 cable. Tests were accomplished on several
ProTools HD2 systems, all running PT 7.4.2.
An FX editor in our shop and a MX editor on the film Iʼm currently working on have recently
purchased several of these drives. It was a direct result of their seeing the Thunder Proʼs
handling of this brutal session.
Please accept our thanks for allowing us time to test the drive. We will keep the Thunder Pro in
mind as we look to purchase hard drives in the future.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0519309/
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