I'm new to this forum, although I've visited a number of times, so please will all you hugely experienced folk forgive me for asking stupid questions! And perhaps for posting on the wrong thread....
I'm a film maker (what's now known as a "creator") of the old school. Very old in my case, but I started editing on film, then tape, then some real vintage gear like an Avid setup with all of 9Gb SCSI storage.... That gives you an idea of how familiar I have become with the kit.
I now shoot at 4k, so I edit on something reasonably modern, or it was when I bought it just before Covid, an Intel NUC9i7QNX, the NUC Extreme Kit. Internal video storage is 1Tb, which has been fine for fairly small-scale productions, and so far I've simply used external HDDs to store the full-fat ProRes files while editing with proxies (daVinci Resolve if you're interested).
I'm now cutting a much bigger project, and as my HDDs were starting to be unreliable - probably because I'm a cheapskate and bought them from low-end suppliers - I decided to get a better external SSD for both big shoots and edit storage. This is a Crucial X9 4Tb, which is tiny and plenty quick enough for rendering from proxy files back to the originals.
But I have discovered a problem. The rear USB and Thunderbolt ports are only giving USB 2.0 speeds, despite all claims to the contrary. (I hadn't spotted this when using old HDDs, since I didn't expect anything faster for them, but BlackMagic's disk speed tester shows how slow they are.)
I have done absolutely everything I can find out about. I've uninstalled, reinstalled, disabled, enabled, updated everything (although all drivers and BIOS/UEFI were already as new as they can be given the age of the thing), and I've even taken it all apart - which is dead easy, as Intel intended - and reseated everything. I'm even having dreams about Windows Device Manager and what it might tell me.
But no luck at all. The rear ports are firmly stuck at very slow indeed. About 40MB/s read and write. The front ones are fine and proper USB 3.2, but there are only two, and it means cables in the way to some extent.
The NUC has been and still is well up to the job of video editing, and I really don't need or want to build a new machine, so I wonder if any wizards out there can suggest a fix...? It may well be that Intel shipped a bunch of motherboards - sorry, "compute elements" - with faulty back ports, but since Asus took over I'm finding it hard to research the matter.
All advice gratefully received. And thank you!
I'm a film maker (what's now known as a "creator") of the old school. Very old in my case, but I started editing on film, then tape, then some real vintage gear like an Avid setup with all of 9Gb SCSI storage.... That gives you an idea of how familiar I have become with the kit.
I now shoot at 4k, so I edit on something reasonably modern, or it was when I bought it just before Covid, an Intel NUC9i7QNX, the NUC Extreme Kit. Internal video storage is 1Tb, which has been fine for fairly small-scale productions, and so far I've simply used external HDDs to store the full-fat ProRes files while editing with proxies (daVinci Resolve if you're interested).
I'm now cutting a much bigger project, and as my HDDs were starting to be unreliable - probably because I'm a cheapskate and bought them from low-end suppliers - I decided to get a better external SSD for both big shoots and edit storage. This is a Crucial X9 4Tb, which is tiny and plenty quick enough for rendering from proxy files back to the originals.
But I have discovered a problem. The rear USB and Thunderbolt ports are only giving USB 2.0 speeds, despite all claims to the contrary. (I hadn't spotted this when using old HDDs, since I didn't expect anything faster for them, but BlackMagic's disk speed tester shows how slow they are.)
I have done absolutely everything I can find out about. I've uninstalled, reinstalled, disabled, enabled, updated everything (although all drivers and BIOS/UEFI were already as new as they can be given the age of the thing), and I've even taken it all apart - which is dead easy, as Intel intended - and reseated everything. I'm even having dreams about Windows Device Manager and what it might tell me.
But no luck at all. The rear ports are firmly stuck at very slow indeed. About 40MB/s read and write. The front ones are fine and proper USB 3.2, but there are only two, and it means cables in the way to some extent.
The NUC has been and still is well up to the job of video editing, and I really don't need or want to build a new machine, so I wonder if any wizards out there can suggest a fix...? It may well be that Intel shipped a bunch of motherboards - sorry, "compute elements" - with faulty back ports, but since Asus took over I'm finding it hard to research the matter.
All advice gratefully received. And thank you!
