TESTED: Big and Fast Hard Drive for Photography and Videography — the Western Digital 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550
The Western Digital 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 is the fastest hard drive that MPG has ever tested.
Moreover, it is in effect a much faster 14TB hard drive than a 14TB-capacity hard drive.
TESTED: Western Digital 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 Hard Drive
You can’t do better than this for fast high capacity quiet storage than the WD18 in the OWC Mercury Elite Pro. At a cost of about $28 per terabyte (including the OWC enclosure), it’s a no-brainer for anyone who needs a main drive and a couple of high capacity backup drives.