Western Digital Unveils SANDISK Professional Brand
Western Digital unveiled the new SanDisk Professional brand of premium storage solutions for content creators and professionals at its Flash Perspective event on Thursday.
The company says the SanDisk Professional portfolio is designed to deliver scalable, high-performance, reliable solutions across industries globally.
Jim Welsh, senior vice president and general manager of the Consumer Solutions business at Western Digital, says their customers trust their life’s work to Western Digital’s products.
“Expanding our brand family with SanDisk Professional allows us to offer advanced solutions to people around the world who rely on the best technology available for their inspiring work.”
The new SanDisk Professional line features 16 modular workflow solutions with professional-grade performance and enterprise-class reliability that will include:
- PRO-CINEMA CFexpress VPG400 – An all-new professional-grade, rugged CFexpress card for videographers and cinematographers needing superior, uninterrupted performance with video recording at a minimum of 400MB/s.
- PRO-READER series – Four new PRO-READER devices that feature a USB-CTM interface that supports SuperSpeed USB 10Gbs. Designed to work with latest and most common camera media including CFastTM, CFexpress, RED Mini-Mag®, CF, microSDTM and SDTM cards.
- PRO-DOCK 4 – A new 4-bay reader docking station that can bridge capture and ingest with a truly scalable offloading solution that saves critical time and money on multi-camera productions. The PRO-DOCK 4 enables up to four simultaneous card offloads.
- A new 4TB G-DRIVE™ ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSD along with the trusted line up of G-DRIVE ultra-rugged portable drives, desktop devices featuring enterprise-grade Ultrastar drives, and G-RAID and G-RAID SHUTTLE transportable, enterprise-grade RAID solutions (now featuring both Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C support).
The broad range of new drives are expected to begin rolling out by early June.
