Hitachi Professional Camera Controller

I'm a professional photographer and have 2 of these drives, as well as 3 other G-Technology drives. They use Hitachi hard drives, which in all my research, are rated as the most reliable drives out there.

I purchased the Edelkrone Controller v2 for use with their HeadPlus panning camera mount. I like have a remote camera in a balcony or at the rear of an auditorium for events, where it is impractical to run cables. The original controller (V1?) was ineffective at the usual distance (50+ ft), forcing me to use an iPad or iPhone instead. The v2 maintains control easily at these distances, without raising the device to maintain a direct line-of-sight contact. While it turns off as a power saving measure, it does not require re-pairing when started up again. The v2 can also be used as a wired controller, with extensions up to 50', and for more than one device with and Edelkrone Link Hub.

Fantastic product I never use my canon controller ever! I actually own 2 one on each camera why not!

This switch has been up and running for two weeks without problems. It was easy to install and configure with the unifi controller. You do not have to be an IT professional to deploy this thing in your home but having the unifi controller for your network devices really gives you an incentive to learn what you can truly do with these things, which is alot! A+++

This product is great and looks very professional! It houses my drone (with the props on), controller, all the accessories, 5 batteries and even my iPad! So convenient! And B&H is the best shopping experience ever!

If you use a lanyard (and I often do) this professional-level accessory screws into pre-existing holes in the controller. I own one for each of my controllers.

This is my 1st 18Tb drive. It will take around 30 hours to fully copy this drive assuming you have a constant speed of 110,000 kbytes/second. The drive is not noisy, and it does not heat up that much compared to other drives of lesser capacity. I use this drive as a backup solution and as a test drive. If this drive works fine then i will buy more of those drives. I've always been impressed with the lifespan on the Hitachi drives (Ultrastar is the Hitachi name owned by IBM before). Almost all my Hitachi drives never failed on me for the last 8 years and they have been working constantly 24 hours a day. Also Hitachi's returning policy is the best: if your drive fails, they will send you a new drive instead of a refurbished drive, this is why I only buy Hitachi (rebranded WD). All those things should be taken into consideration when you buy a drive. Of course it's still too soon to know how long this drive will last but i will make sure to update my review is something else comes up.

I bought this drive as a replacement for Hitachi 1 TB portable HDD. Hitachi drive was defective, so I went for WD. It is good, I have no problems with it. It is a little slow, but for the backup purposes it is OK. Recommend.

I am using this with an 18TB Hitachi drive to connect it to my old Mac Pro via USB 3.0. It works great. The enclosure is not very large and has stand with the non-slip base. It has been very fast and quiet, just what I had hoped it would be. And it looks nice on my desk.

I was using the Hitachi version of these forever (like 20 of them) for audio and video intensive work. That drive was recommended by the guys at Graid, because they used them in their externals. I heard WD bought the Hitachi division a couple of years back, when my go to's were now discontinued. I had MAJOR bad luck with WD drives in the past. I tested out two of these last year (one for backup, I buy them in pairs for this reason). Working perfectly. Two more, perfect, two more, perfect. (6 total now). Still got my fingers crossed that at the two year mark, the first two don't fail, on the same day, like a couple of older WD drives in the past (15 years ago). Installed those original WDs in two different PCs on the same day (I uses two for beta testing software product) They BOTH failed on the same day exactly two years later. OMG. I've had many other WD drives that didn't last as long as my other brands, so I stayed away from WD, until last year. So I was very reluctant to use WD. But hey, I gave it another shot, thinking that the Hitachi buy gave them better tech. FIngers crossed. :) But pretty confident that these will last as my Hitachi versions, which are still all running strong after 8+ years...