Not another fast drive.
It’s a different class of tool.
4TB & 8TB
Find My Tracking
Digital Label
Solid-State Cooling
Encryption & RAID-6
I wish my external hard drive had half of these features.
An iPhone filmmaker’s dream storage solution.
The holy grail of SSDs
Every workflow depends on data. But traditional drives can’t keep up with the pace of modern data generation and applications.
Pro Mini is the world’s first Smart Drive: a breakthrough in sustained performance, intelligent design, and workflow integration.
Every other portable drive you’ve used is just a consumer M.2 SSD in a metal wrapper. To change what portable storage can do, we had to start with a completely different design. More like a smartphone.
Pro Mini monitors, protects, and optimizes itself. An integrated SoC provides accelerated Encryption, RAID-6 Data Protection, Find My Tracking, and a Digital Label. Solid-state cooling chips allow sustained performance and redefine what portable storage can do.
Read on to find out more about these revolutionary features and how they can make your workflow simpler, faster, and more powerful.
4TB and 8TB. Enough space to store more than 36 hours of 4K footage in your pocket.
Connect to and charge off any phone, computer, or camera with a USB-C port.
Personalize your drive with project names, camera numbers, contact information, logos, QR codes, and more.
Digital Label combines your personalized label with dynamic information from the drive, including capacity and connection speed.
E-paper display persists for up to 5 years on the shelf, and is continuously visible, even in direct sunlight, and when powered off.
Digital Label is protected by Gorilla® Glass 2 and anti-glare finish.
Find your Pro Mini with Apple and Google device location tracking networks, using the native Find My app.
Beeping sound and blinking light to locate your device.
Personalize lost mode on the Digital Label with your contact information.
Connect Pro Data, Pro Mini, and other devices you already own to iodyne Cloud for Fleet Management.
Solid-state cooling powered by dual AirJet® chips.
Sustained performance beyond the 30sec benchmarks of typical Pro SSDs.
Optimized for sequential data movement of pro workflows, such as ingesting raw camera footage or offloading large media files.
With encryption and RAID 6 protection always on.
Always on XTS-AES-256 Encryption.
Hardware-accelerated RAID-6 Data Protection.
Multiple authorized users can establish personal and secure Passkeys.
Tap to unlock with your phone or when connected to a computer.
With 4TB and 8TB usable capacity options, iodyne Pro Mini provides as much storage capacity as the largest internal laptop SSDs, 4x the capacity of a high-end camera SSD cartridge, and 8x the capacity of the largest Pro phone SSD.
Powered by dual AirJet® modules by Frore Systems, Pro Mini is the world’s first portable SSD to break through the thermal throttling limit of previous portable SSD designs. Silent, dynamic, self-cleaning, and protected from particles as small as 0.3μm, the unique cooling system enables Pro Mini to deliver unprecedented sustained performance and next-generation smarts.
Through its unique solid-state cooling design, Pro Mini delivers 2-10× the sustained performance of typical Pro SSDs when running the most demanding workflows, whether it’s ingesting big data sets, or offloading them to an iodyne Pro Data, the cloud, or a network storage. And that’s with encryption and internal RAID protection turned on, all the time.
Customizable Digital Label
Customizable Digital Label that allows you to personalize a label without messy stickers, masking tape, or pens. The Digital Label’s 2.1″ E-paper display retains your customized label image whether the drive is on or off, even if left disconnected for up to 5 years on a shelf.
Universal Connectivity
Pro Mini’s bus-powered USB-C port allows you to connect to almost anything, including phones, tablets, cameras, and computers. When you plug in, Pro Mini automatically detects the type of connection you’re using and its maximum speed, and adjusts accordingly. Pro Mini will operate as a USB 2.x device, USB 3.x device, USB 4 device, or Thunderbolt device, at speeds up to 40Gb/s, based on what type of connection you provide.
Machined Aluminum Chassis
Unlike the cheap plastic and rubber used for typical SSD enclosures, Pro Mini features a triple-anodized machined aluminum chassis with an elegant industrial design. The scratch-resistant aluminum is complemented by phone-quality hardened glass protecting the Digital Label. Pro Mini is designed to be used indoors, outdoors, on-set, with the durability that Pros demand for their portable devices.
Multiple Containers
iodyne has brought its unique Containers technology from Pro Data to Pro Mini, making this available in a portable drive for the first time. To enable more advanced multi-platform workflows, you can optionally divide Pro Mini’s physical storage capacity into distinct logical containers, each formatted with a different filesystem type.
Find My
Inside of Pro Mini is a fully-integrated secure Bluetooth signaling beacon, that can be linked with the Apple and Google device location tracking networks. You can use Find My to locate a particular drive in your inventory. And if Pro Mini is lost, or in transit with your valuable project data, you can find it and track it using the native tracking apps on Apple or Google platforms. Pro Mini’s tracking capability is powered by an internal rechargeable battery, that automatically and intelligently recharges when needed.
Device Passkeys
In place of insecure passwords, PIN codes, and keypads, Pro Mini provides the industry’s first implementation of secure Passkeys for a portable storage drive. Just like a modern website, Pro Mini allows multiple authorized users to establish personal and secure Passkeys that are stored in their computer or phone’s Secure Enclave.
NFC – Tap to UNLOCK
Your Passkey is used to securely unlock Pro Mini when it connects to your computer. You can also tap your phone on Pro Mini’s NFC transponder to unlock it, such as when you are temporarily granting access to another computer or camera.
Data Durability and Security
Every byte of data passing into Pro Mini is secured with enterprise-grade XTS-AES-256 encryption, and protected with hardware-accelerated RAID-6 data protection, allowing Pro Mini to safeguard your data even if an entire internal NAND flash chip fails. Encryption keys are stored in a hardware Secure Enclave, and locked by Passkeys, so that a lost or stolen device cannot reveal your private data, even if the drive is disassembled or plugged into a hacker’s computer.
Workflow Metadata
In addition to storing your secured and encrypted workflow data on the drive, and your customized Digital Label, Pro Mini can store customized workflow metadata that can be retrieved by iodyne’s iOS app through the NFC transponder, or viewed on a connected computer. Use Workflow Metadata to record times, dates, project codes, shipping locations, billing codes, and more. You can even connect Workflow Metadata with your own scripts and use it to drive automation in other tools.
With iodyne Cloud’s new Fleet Management service, you can manage and provision groups of Pro Mini devices for your projects. Fleet Management manages Digital Label and Container settings, lists of Authorized Users, and other device settings so you can apply them to a set of Pro Mini drives with a single click. Fleet Management also helps you manage your entire drive inventory, including Pro Mini, Pro Data, and even devices from other vendors that you already own. Add a Fleet Management Enterprise subscription to integrate with a single sign-on service like Okta, and the ability to remotely manage your Pro Mini in the field.
View custom Workflow Metadata stored in your drive, and add busy drives to a real-time Watchlist that relays live workflow progress from your drive to your phone. Once your workflow is running, you can manage other tasks on-set while you receive real-time notifications.
Most portable SSDs are built to store files and collect dust on the shelf after a few uses. Pro Mini is like a mini supercomputer that is built to protect, track, manage, and move professional data intelligently.
Smart features such as Find My Tracking, Customizable Digital Label, RAID-6 Data Protection, and Encryption all require power and generate heat, which can constrain the design of portable devices like phones and SSDs.
To deliver a ground-breaking set of features in a portable device, iodyne had to start by redesigning the cooling system: using AirJet® chips from Frore Systems, iodyne Pro Mini is the first solid-state drive with solid-state cooling technology. Using this very different starting point, we were able to design a portable device much more like a smartphone, centered around a true System-on-a-Chip with an expansive set of software features unlike any other drive.
Let’s take a look.
USB only or TBT only
Universal USB / Thunderbolt
TBT only. No camera or phone
Can connect directly to cameras and smart phones with usb connectivity
Captive 0.3m cable
Any cable length
Fast at first
Consistent. Cool. Predictable.
Throttles after seconds
Sustained performance. End-to-end.
Passive heat dissipation
AirJet active solid-state cooling (learn more)
Single NVMe
NVMe RAID-6
Blind
Knows its state, load, capacity, connected users, and reads metadata
Sticker or tape label
Customizable OLED Digital Display
None. Or optional, software-based. 2–4x slower when encrypted.
Always-on, hardware encryption
No protection. Traditional, single password keypad entry
Secure Passkeys, Multi-user, Multi-password, NFC Tap to Unlock
Expendable if lost or stolen
Find My Tracking, Lost Mode
Single one-time use devices
IT-Friendly Fleet Management Software
No docks due to bumpers
Dockable
In a world where cameras, software, and workflows have all become smarter, it makes sense that the drive at the center of it all finally has, too.
The Pro Mini should help avoid production workflow bottlenecks that professionals tend to accept as an inherent part of the process, like performance limitations of SSD drives, lack of optimal security, the habit of stacking drives instead of reusing them for new projects, etc.
It’s the first I’ve seen with a built-in e-paper display that can automatically keep track of remaining storage and the last time it was used — plus your project name, lost-and-found phone numbers or emails, QR codes, or anything else you type in.
The Pro Mini takes what is the stale world of portable SSDs and delivers what I think is the first real innovation we’ve seen in portable SSDs in quite some time.
Filmmakers and other creatives often have to deal with the issue of storing data securely while on location. This often takes the form of external SSDs that aren’t usually protected and have the potential to be misplaced. iodyne’s Pro Mini Smart Drive could be an iPhone filmmaker’s dream storage solution.
Available with select resellers.
Tell us about your current storage setup and the demands of your upcoming project. Our workflow engineers will design a custom Pro Data configuration tailored to your performance needs.
