Teamgroup launches storage and memory aimed at Cinema Camera market

If you’re a Blackmagic Cinema camera user, then you know the pain of dealing with storage.  You have very few options for storage (the T5, which is officially supported and also discontinued, or the T7 which works but isn’t on the supported list, for example), and as such they tend to have a “rarity tax” applied to the price.  They also require a secondary device to grip them like this SSD holder which has to hold the SSD with a spring loaded grip.  You’ll end up combining them with 90-degree USB-C cables and more just to hold onto the rubberized exteriors.  It’s annoying, to be sure.  Well Teamgroup seems to agree, and they now have a solution that blows everything else out of the water — the T-Create CinemaPr P31 External SSD.

The T-Create CinemaPr P31 External SSD is a hardened aluminum SSD in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB configurations, complete with three standard 1/4″ mount holes on each side, as well as three on a rubberized surface on the bottom to mount it…well, just about anywhere!  It’s also low-profile, IP67 dust and moisture sealed, and capable of 1000MB/s for the 1 and 2TB models and 2000MB/s for the 4TB model.  Frankly, if you were to make a checklist of everything you’d want for a cinematic camera storage device, it’d look exactly like this.  The T-Create CinemaPr P31 External SSD pretty much appeared out of nowhere, and it’s already shipping as of today.  The 1TB model will run you $199, the 2TB is $299, and the 4TB is $599, giving you 2, 4, or 8 hours of footage at 6K resolution and 60fps — a staggeringly gorgeous image indeed.

You can pick them up at B&H, Amazon, ASI, MicroCenter, Newegg, and more.  Here’s a link that’d support GamingTrend if you wanted to pick up one for yourself. — we appreciate it!

In addition to needing a great deal of storage, you’ll also need a TON of high speed memory to edit it — the more the better.  For gaming, you can arguably get by with 16GB or 32GB, but you’ll want 64 or even 96GB of memory if you want to manipulate files that are upwards of 100GB a clip.  Well, Teamgroup has also announced their T-Group Expert DDR5 Desktop Memory Black series to do precisely that.  Available in 32GB models at anywhere from 5600 to 7600 MHz speeds, all the way up to a pair of 48GB modules for a total of 96GB of RAM at 6800 MHz speed, these memory modules carry the Teamgroup standard lifetime warranty, and have a double-sided high-heat conductive thermal pad on each side of the ICs, with a high-temp resistant capacitor directly on the module, all contained in a aluminum alloy heat spreader case with a heat-venting porous top edge, built specifically to vent heat as efficiently as possible.  They look like they’ll be an incredible addition to any editing workstation, and our recent reviews of their Delta gaming modules suggest they’re going to be highly performant.

It’s great to see some well-constructed competition to Samsung’s T-series drives, as well as some purpose-built memory created specifically for video editing.  Just like the storage, you can pick up the memory right now, and we have a link that would support GamingTrend.com.   We’ll be asking for both of these devices to benchmark them and test them out as we have multiple Blackmagic cameras, as well as bleeding edge video editing stations to test them in exactly Teamgroup’s use case for these products — stay tuned!