Hmm

[Eric Santiago]

Haha woke up to read this topic 🙂

Zip, Jaz, Floppy and heck even CDs are almost non-existence at my work.

Well actually we dumped the Zip and Jaz 7 years ago.

What ever happened to Iomega?

[Richard Herd]

Herb, quick question — how are you storing all of your footage. My understanding from lurking around here is you shoot 26 shows, in multicam, which sounds like a data storage nightmare. Just curious what you do.

Thanks!

[Jeremy Garchow]

Jaz drives, dude.

Jump on board.

[Herb Sevush]

[Richard Herd] “how are you storing all of your footage. My understanding from lurking around here is you shoot 26 shows, in multicam, which sounds like a data storage nightmare. Just curious what you do.”

From the studio shoot I get 14 Terrabytes of ProRes 422 loaded onto 2 different 8 disc raids, 14TB and 5.25TB of actual storage, both are set as Raid5. I try never to get the raids 80% full. We shoot 5 cameras, I put the angles for 4 cameras on my newest raid, that gets around 800MB/s, and put the fifth and least used angle on my older slower Raid that gets around 400MB/s. I find that long multicam clips, and some of my clips are over 10 minutes long, require a lot more disk speed than the numbers would lead you to believe if you don’t want to drop frames occasionally, and I never want to drop frames. There’s also a bunch of single camera location stuff that comes in different formats and a bunch of animation and graphics that has to be dealt with. Now that all acquisition is file based I archive everything onto LTO5 tapes at the end of the edit.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Eric Santiago]

Herb any preferences to RAIDs?

Our Apple XServe RAID and GTech XLs are getting old fast 🙁

[Herb Sevush]

[Eric Santiago] “Herb any preferences to RAIDs? Our Apple XServe RAID and GTech XLs are getting old fast :”

I had an Xserve raid for years and it was heavy, expensive and slow. Currently both my raids are PCIe devices from Maxx Digital, they advertise here, I like their service and price. There are a lot of other PCIe vendors – caldigit, sonnet – plus Pegasus if you want to go Thunderbolt.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf