Checking disk speeds

…In order to make sure that the drives that you pick, or the SD cards…you pick are fast enough, Black Magic offers…a free utility to check the disk speed.…You could download it from their website, and…then launch it to check any mounted disk.…Once you've launched Disk Speed Test, just click the…Settings button in the middle, to choose the targeted drive.…In this case, I'll choose the SSD that I'm…going to use in the cinema camera and click Choose.…From the same settings menu, you could choose the size of the file.…

A one gigabyte file is not much of…a stress, so I recommend three gigabytes or higher.…When that's done, click the Start button.…And you'll get an idea of the read and the write speed.…You'll notice that this is more than fast enough, for working with ProRes.…In fact, you can even see some…other formats that are supported with the checkboxes.…This utility has additional documentation available on the Black Magic website.…It's absolutely free and not just useful for checking your camera cards or SSDs.…