Maxx Digital

Maxx Digital's 1TB Edit Vault is a super sturdy external hard drive for uses of all types. A client who is working in one of the studios at the studio complex where I work has been using this drive for his project, and it's definitely up there with the best external hard drives I've ever seen. It's definitely bulky but it's not meant to be the most portable drive in the world as they're going with sturdiness and stability over anything else. The first clue on this is that the drive comes with a heavy duty carrying case and has a hard outer shell to protect the drive. It's got all the ports you'd want with a modern day hard drive, including FireWire 400 and 800, USB 2.0 and eSATA. Its has an IEC power supply port which is nice as you can plug any standard power cord into it. It's got a really quite and effective fan for cooling, so no worries about running the drive all day and night if needed. It comes in a sizes of all kinds in terms of hard drive space, ranging from just 160 GB to 3 TB. While incredibly sturdy, something like this isn't going to be necessary for all projects as it's rather pricey. I'd only recommend it if you can definitely afford it for your project or if you need to have the sturdiest external hard drive available, which is what this is. If it wasn't so expensive I think you'd see it around more often, but even at this price it's going to be worth it for serious video and audio purposes as you'll never have to worry about it. Maxx Digital's 1TB Edit Vault drive is worth looking into for everyone, but won't be necessary for all parties...

The Maxx Digital 500GB PocketEdit is a portable hard drive for purposes of all types. I’ve used this hard drive for storing Pro Tools sessions and for walking off of it. I don’t own the drive but a client recently brought in a few of these for his sessions. There isn’t too much that you need to be aware about with these drives, as they’re pretty simple, but extremely well built and sturdy. It's got two FireWire 800 ports as well as a USB one. It’s definitely the kind of drive you want to use heavy storage purposes as it can handle anything you throw at it. I didn’t know much about these drives until someone brought them in, but according to them there’s no better drives to be using. It seems like the amount of different high quality drives out there has increased exponentially in the last few years, but this isn’t a bad thing at all as it just gives us options and helps to drive down the price of higher quality drives. I think that the PocketEdit series has a few different sizes to choose from, but I haven’t done too much research on the full array of drives they have to offer. 500 GB is certainly enough to hold a number of different sessions, so if you have just one (and a back up!) drive per session, this is definitely going to be more than enough space for you. Since I’m not an owner of a Maxx Digital PocketEdit drive, I can’t say how well it will hold up over time, but judging from the fact that they’re being used in a professional environment to store important work, I think it’s safe to say that these are sturdy enough to do the job. Of course you always want to have a back up of your work regardless, but I don’t think you can really go wrong with the Maxx Digital 500GB PocketEdit drive.