Stocks for chip companies have been surging lately. NVIDIA's market cap is back up by 5 trillion, and AMD is up 18%.
But what does that have to do with us regular folks who shoot video?
It means this: everything is getting smaller and more powerful. Except external drives. They're still brick-sized.
Think about it: phone chips are down to a few nanometers. And yet, when you go out to shoot ProRes, you've got to hang a thick, clunky drive off the back of your iPhone — and if you're unlucky, you'll need separate power for it. They call it a "portable" SSD, but it's heavier than the phone itself.
That doesn't make sense.
So we made the Aiffro P20 Mini SSD. With one goal: you don't feel it when you carry it, but you never find yourself short when you need it.
Just how small is it?
About the size of two keychains side by side. 14 grams. Dimensions: 32 x 48 x 5mm. It rattles around loose in that little coin pocket on your jeans.
You can hang it right on your key ring, or toss it in a pencil case. You don't need to make special room for it.
But small doesn't mean low capacity. Up to 2TB.
How much ProRes can 2TB record? Over five hours. For a typical vlog, an event, or an interview — you simply won't run out. You'll run out of battery first.
Before, when you bought an iPhone, you agonized between 128GB and 512GB — a price difference of a couple thousand yuan. With the P20, that dilemma becomes meaningless. You spend less money, get way more space, and it works across multiple devices.
Plug it in and it just works. No setup required.
The P20 has two ports: Lightning and USB-C. (Note: the Lightning connection requires the included U-shaped adapter.)
What does that mean?
For older iPhone models — flip on the U-shaped adapter to Lightning and record ProRes directly to the drive.
For iPhone 15 and newer — plug into USB-C. Same thing.
When you're done recording, unplug it and plug it into your MacBook, iPad, or even an Android phone. Read the footage directly.
No app needed. No setup. No computer as a middleman.
Fast enough that you don't wait.
Read speed: up to 1000MB/s. (Write speed is slightly lower, as with most SSDs.)
In plain English: you record a 10-minute 4K ProRes clip (about 36GB), drag it from the P20 into your editing software — it's done copying in under 40 seconds. By the time you stand up and stretch, your footage is ready.
What happens if the speed isn't enough? Your iPhone will pop up a message saying "Write speed is too slow" and stop recording. Half your shoot — gone.
The P20 doesn't do that. It's fast enough for ProRes 4K at 120fps. Plenty of headroom. Record all you want.
Making it small was harder than you'd think.
You might think: isn't it just about shrinking a drive? What's so hard?
Three challenges:
Heat dissipation. High-speed reading and writing inevitably creates heat. Lots of mini drives claim 1000MB/s, but five minutes into recording they start throttling because they're too hot. The P20 uses an all-metal body (aluminum alloy) to conduct heat away. It doesn't drop speed even after an hour of continuous recording.
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Power delivery. The iPhone supplies very little power to peripherals. Lots of drives, when plugged in, pop up a message saying "This accessory requires too much power" and nothing happens. Then you have to plug in an external battery pack — at which point, what's even "portable" anymore? The P20's operating power is just 1-3W. Plug it in and it's recognized immediately. No external power needed.
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Squeezing two ports together. Lightning and USB-C have different physical sizes and different electrical requirements. Fitting both into a 14-gram body (with the U-shaped adapter), and making it auto-detect which side is plugged in — that structural design was way more troublesome than it sounds.
But those troubles are our troubles. What arrives in your hands is a little thing that you just plug in and it works — solid as a rock.
Conclusion
The Aiffro P20 solves a simple problem: your iPhone doesn't have enough space, you don't want to spend thousands upgrading to a higher-capacity model, so you just hang one outside. Smaller than a keychain, doesn't get in the way, record ProRes directly onto it, and it's fast.
It's not showing off. It just removes one worry — that "oh no, I'm out of space again" moment — when you're out shooting.
If something can help you solve a specific problem that annoys you every single day, that's enough.
Aiffro P20 Mini SSD
Dual interface (Lightning + USB-C), 14g, up to 2TB, up to 1000MB/s read. Record ProRes direct to iPhone.
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