looking for reliable storage

[Paul Jay]

Reliable is a big word in storage. Reliable doesn’t help you when your studio burns down. The storage is on fire!

Reliable is backup/archive on 2 physical locations.
If you do this with Firewire drives or a central RAID 5 fibre storage that doesn’t really matter.
In both scenario’s you need a Backup strategy.

[Nitin Kulkarni]

hi

what about issues like directory structure corruption, file overlapping,drive not mounting ect. issues. can that taken care of?

regards

[Walter Biscardi]

[nitin kulkarni] “1 secured in terms of hardware malfunction, directory structure corruption, file overlapping ect. thats the main aim.”

RAID 5 or 6 array. We run Maxx Digital arrays here. Small Tree, Sonnet and Dulce also make excellent products.

[nitin kulkarni] “2 sharing between multiple fcp suites. main aim is tapless footage back up, throughput is not really big issue. capacity 32 TB.”

We run the Maxx Digital Final Share SAN here. 7 workstations all tied together via Ethernet to 32TB of shared storage. We cut ProRes HD all day long doing this. Speeds are jumping now to the point where we will have Uncompressed HD and 2k support via Ethernet.

As for archiving and backup we use the WiebeTech RTX Trayless SATA enclosures which allows us to simply buy any SATA drive and use that for backup.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media

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[Ron Pestes]

You could also use a G Tech G Safe or a Caldigit VR in RAID 1 and keep an extra drive off site for safety. That way you always have a mirrored drive in case one fails at your work station and a safe one kept somewhere else.

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