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Cheapest Storage Solution
I want to spend a grand or so on the most cost effective way of backing up P2 footage I shoot on my DVX200 – what is the best value per gig solution out there for under a grand?
thanks
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No offense But…
looking for the Cheapest Storage Solution for tapeless material is not really a good plan, it is not like you can go back to then tape and re-dig.
gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows
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We have decided to go with a Sonnet Fusion 500P system and the X4P PCI-X card.
We will strip (4) drives RAID 0 and keep the 5th drive as a hot swap for back up/archival of projects. We are starting with maxtor 500GB maxline drives and will eventually move to larger drives for the hot swap 5th drive.
When we make the move to full HD, we will add a 2nd 500P tower and stripe (8) drives, (4) in each bay over 2 eSATA multilane channels, leaving (2) drives for back up/archival duties.
Not sure what software we will use for the RAID 0, but we are thinking of something other than the OSX for the added control & status info.
Good luck.
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For the feature I’m working on, I chose to use DL DVDs for archiving. The original file structure of each card was copied to 2 DL DVDs (we’re veeeery into redundancy here. We like to repeat our redundancies! 🙂 We also kept a hot backup of each media drive with the converted QT files, in the event of a disk failure (we only had 1 disk crash, & Disk Warrior repaired it in 5 or 10 minutes without any loss of data). So far, it’s worked out well, but I can’t wait to get home after 2 months on location!
Arnie
On location in Moscow for Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
https://www.arniepix.com/blog
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