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Archiving P2..?
I have a basic question, just trying to work out the best option.
What are most guys using to archive from P2? Bearing in mind that in an ideal world I’d go and buy 200 cards, but thats not going to happen! I’m also in the field most of the time, and have LaCies, but eventually this will become difficult too.
Are dual layer DVDs the best option?
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Lots of folks are using DVDs- as they match the P2s in 4 and 8 gb size pretty nicely. Also cheap hard drives make decent storage though not quite as durable. Blu-Ray DVD’s are a possibility as well. AIT’s DLTs LTOs. Once you have data the possibilities are quite endless.
Noah
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[Digistream] “have a basic question, just trying to work out the best option.
What are most guys using to archive from P2? Bearing in mind that in an ideal world I’d go and buy 200 cards, but thats not going to happen! I’m also in the field most of the time, and have LaCies, but eventually this will become difficult too.
Are dual layer DVDs the best option?”
I have been using both Blu-Ray and DLT with my Mac. Both have their places.
The Blu-Ray is cheaper to get into. $800 for a drive, plus $90 or so for Toast8. The discs are between $35 for 25GB write once and $45 bucks for 50GB.
The down side to Blu-Ray is the speed. 90 Minutes to burn a full 46GB load. I have found it necessary to verify each disc, so tack on another few hours.
The Quantum 600A is great. I can write an entire 300GB tape in a little over 2 hours. The cost of entry is higher. I think the Quantum costs about $8,000 list. Tapes are about $100 each.
Hope that helps.
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Art AldrichLeader, NJ FCP UG
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I’ve tried dual layer but the speed is a killer. Also, recorded optical media is not necessarily a great long term solution. Disks can become unreadable over time, although it happens rarely and usually takes a long time for one to fail.
For now I’m using pairs of hard drives, the little Lacie Porsche ones that cost about $100 for 250 Gigs on newegg. yes, a little scary counting on something with moving parts for an archive, but I figure if there are two of them, stored separately, I should be OK. They’re about the size of a BetaSP tape and stack nicely.
Later this year we plan to purchase a DVCProHD VTR and at that point I’ll archive to tape. The irony is obvious, but tape is cheap. I’m working on a way to archive to tape and still maintain the original timecode from the P2 clips.
Joe Murray
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Serial ATA drives. Cheap, plentiful, abundant, use two if you are paranoid.
Jeremy
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