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Hard Drive Backup Options
Here’s a new article from David Saraceno about backing up your Sony SxS Pro and Panasonic P2 memory cards in the field using standard hard drives and a couple of the latest connection devices. Worth a look:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/tool_tapeless_saraceno.html
– Don
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Don,
[Don Greening] “Worth a look:”
It was definitely worth a look, and several drops in my favorite places. These are fine devices, but only if the production stays with you for post-production. While you can use these devices for redundant backup, you can’t hand a client a bare drive. There are other devices (but at this time I think only available for 3.5″ drives) that are just as good, if not a little better. See these bare drive enclosures:
Internal:
https://cooldrives.stores.yahoo.net/quswsamorafo.html
External: USB/Firewire400
https://www.cooldrives.com/qwsaiitofian.html
External: USB/eSata
https://cooldrives.stores.yahoo.net/sibayesandus.html
The laptop craze and demand for 2.5″ hard drives has considerably lowered the price of pocket drives, which are easily handed off to clients. They cost about twice/GB what a 3.5″ external hard drive does but weigh less than a pound and are at least 1/4 as bulky. $100/120-160GB USB drives are readily available.
Ron Shook
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