EZQuest Thunder Pro External HDD at 2TB ($340)

EZQuest, Inc. announced its Thunder Pro Quad 2TB Firewire 800, Firewire 400, eSATA and USB 2.0 Quad interface hard drive. The single drive external unit is designed for Audio and Video professional and delivers transfers speeds of up to 108MB/s.

The EZQuest Thunder Pro supports video in multi stream DV, HDV, DVCPRO HD with real time effects and audio applications such as Digidesign?s ProTools LE/HD, Apple’s Logic and MOTU’s Digital Performer. Due to both its performance and reliability, industry-leading professionals are choosing EZQuest.

"Over the years I have gone through hundreds of drives always looking for stable and reasonably priced storage. In Audio Post Production for Film, we are concerned first with stability and second Speed," says Derek Vanderhorst, Sound Supervisor, Sound Designer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine and 300. "(In our studio) there is a famous session with 192 tracks of audio stems, each piece being over 20 minutes in length. 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, 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 through the session."

The Thunder Pro Quad is shipping now with capacities ranging from 500GB to the just announced 2TB. The Thunder Quad 2TB has an MSRP of $339.99.