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Backup and storage methods
I am working on a very important project and just had a harddrive die on me. What is the best way to store my video projects?
I have a small set up just using a couple of 250gb harddrives and internal harddrive on my mac and pc. I was looking into getting a server b/c I have had 3 harddrive die on me in the last 6 months. Harddrive seem to not be reliable!
I am not familiar with how to store large amounts of video. I am only working in DV and I use AE alot. Right now I have about 300gb of video footage. This is just for 1 project. I have alot more projects coming up.
Could you guys give me some insight on how I should save my projects. I would like to maintain my FCP files just in case I want to make changes in the future. Thanks.
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If you are only working with 300GB of storage, then I would consider a couple of FW drives. They are so darn cheap now, you could save all the media for an entire project on one drive. 500G FW drives are about $200 each!
Buy a couple and use one for each client or project.
Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
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> looking into getting a server b/c I have had 3 harddrive die on me in the last 6 months. Harddrive seem to not be reliable!
< This suggests you are doing something terribly cruel to your drives. Drives do not generally fail. Eventually, yes, they will fail, they're just mechanical devices. But your experience is unusual to the point of being outrageous. You're either mistreating them deliberately or you've got an environment that mistreats drives. The drives in servers are not necessarily any better than your drives. A server can be set up with redundant power supplies, auotswapping and other expensive features. But all you need is a mirrored RAID, sounds like, and a very good backup system/procedure. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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