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External hard drive for archived media/media projects?
Hey guys,
Hoping this will be my last thread. I think I am going to upgrade my WD Blue 1TB HD to a 6TB Seagate Barracuda, but I think it would be good to have a good external hard drive to backup projects and to help keep media off the 6TB HD.
What are some good solutions for a hobbyist like me that aren’t terribly expensive? (Some of the external solutions are thousands of dollars)
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you mean archive? a cheap 3.1 usb one unless you want redundancy like raid.
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Yea just wasn’t sure if there was a recommended 3.1 external HD. So many out there.
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I am going to ask the question again but in a professional capacity. What are external drives/raids are being used for video media with a fast read speed? I was thinking about a raid but it’s been a while since I’ve researched this subject. My camera is a 4K camera. I current have a 10TB external drive filled to 9TB. That is from video footage captured over the last year 1/2.
I need a better solution.
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It is a very wide topic. A raid drive system is always the best. It could be a 4-drive or 8-drive if possible, for personal use I believe. I don’t want to mention brand names here but it is important to do research online and try to find reliable widely used brands. If you set up a 4-bay raid you can set it up as raid 5 and one disk will be for safety and you will be using the capacity of 3 drives. Similar to an 8-bay raid if you make it raid 5 you will use the capacity of 7 drives. Or you can make it raid 6 and this time 2 drives will be for safety. A raid setup will be good for a long time of use and speed. Will be a little noisy by the way. If you have the budget you can make it with SSD drives but it will be a bit pricey. Also, you may have a 2-drive raid set up for working or a 4 TB SSD and a 4-drive raid for backup, maybe one with an ethernet connection and set it up for automatic backups and maybe use it for remote connections.
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Thank you Devrim. I appreciate the quick response. What have you seen as maximum storage capacity?
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🙂 Well right now at the office we are using a 48-bay raid with each 10Tb.
But the maximum is I am not sure, I work with a TV channel for a project and they have about 20 raid setups my height in a very big room.
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There are some base options like OWC Envoy Pro FX SSD drives for mobility then of course a big RAID rig from OWC, GRAID, LACIE, SYNOLOGY, etc…
I personally use a slew of Envoys (mobile), OWC Thunderbay (edit suites) and Synology (massive NAS system).
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For “near-line” fast storage, get yourself a M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure and a NVMe M.2 SSD.
Recommended:
https://a.co/d/cT1LKnC
https://a.co/d/5YCW4Q1For “offline-line” long term storage, get cheap internal HDD drives and an external HDD docking station. Use a Pelican Case HDD storage box to hold the drives. Use NeoFinder software to keep track of what is on the drives. Give the drives names (I use Greek and Roman Gods) and use a label maker to label the drives. In case of fire/earthquake/whatever, you grab the Pelican Case and run.
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