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Hard Drive Storage Options??
Hi all,
I posted last week about hard drive options with regard to a HVX200 1 hour long show for broadcast.
Since, I have come to learn that our budget for hard drive storage is VERY limited, and too limited to go the route I had intended to be the ideal route (a 3tb raid 5 system).
So here is my speil again.
The project is going to shoot roughly 16 hours of footage on the HVX200, shooting at 1080/24p, this should get us approx. 700-800 gbs of footage alone. We also have a few other smaller projects coming up that will probably only takeup 50-60gbs in themselves. So I’m probably looking at needing somewhere around 1tb or 1.5tb s of space at the least… The main project will consist of 6 weeks of editing.
My fear that I was hoping to protect myself against is that in week 5 a hard drive dies and without the Raid 5 protection I’m up the creek with no paddle, as we have a hard deadline for the broadcast copy.
I have a $1000 (cdn dollars) budget for hard drive storage.
Anyone have any recommendations?
Any input would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
Scott
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http://www.caldigit.com Either the FirewireVR or S2VR Duo
http://www.sonnettech.com Fusion D400Q
http://www.macgurus.com Burley Box
http://www.G-tech.com G-RaidRaid 5 will not be had at $1000…you will barely be able to afford a 1.5TB setup with that amount of money. You need to be a bit realistic when it comes to pricing of RELIABLE hard drive solutions. This is NOT a place to skimp and go cheap. If you lose a drive, then you lose your media and that is lost time….thus more money. Don’t cheat yourself here.
Shane
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Forget about raid-5. Editors have been working on NLEs for fifteen-plus years without it. Raid-5 is a wonderful luxury for those who can afford it and for those who can’t afford to be without it, but its a luxury nonetheless. Backup to inexpensive firewire drives if you can’t live without a backup.
Meanwhile, just go back and view your last thread and the zillions of others on the same subject, there are many good reccomendations and no need to revive the entire subject yet again.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
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Shane,
I couldn’t agree with you more. I made a hell of a case to my Producer about this and all he could tell me was to ‘clear more room’ on our current hard drives, which isn’t a viable option for the amount of space needed, to which I explained this to him, and ya… he said he couldn’t spend that kind of money, and I said I need some sorta budget and $1000 is what I got. Soooooooooo ya.
Ugh.
Scott
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(1) Firmtek 5-bay enclosure bundled with PCI-e port mulitplier SATA contoller https://firmtek.stores.yahoo.net/sata5pm2se2.html $609.00
(5) Hitachi 500gb hard drives https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145137 5 x 89.99 = $450.
TOTAL without tax and shipping $1050.00
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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I agree. You don’t NEED Raid 5. Get a good Raid 1 or 0. OR just buy some inexpensive firewire drives and manually backup your source files. use the raid 0 for speed. I just started using a CalDigit FirewireVR and love it.
-trevor ward
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I was looking at new egg and they disclude Alaska, Hawaii and Porta Rico from the shipping rate. I think it goes without saying you’ll need to scratch Canada as well. To avoid higher shipping and import fees on the drives you can try NCIX in Canada.:
https://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?minorcatid=109&subminorcatid=107
The hitashi 750’s are $130.00 X 3 = 2.250TB @ $390.00 so this may work out cheaper or more convenient in the long run on the drives. If you get on the NCIX mailing list they have regular sales and some really great deals on hard drives fairly regularly. They give you an instant rebate for this price but there is also a $30.00 mail in rebate offers but it may only be available on the 1st drive if you go after it.
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