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Need Storage Advice
Hi everyone,
I am currently in the process of recording/editing and STORING hundreds of approx 5-min HD videos. I am operating everything from a MacBook Pro. Currently my backup system is this:
1x2t Lacie Drive: This stores my vids.
1x2t Lacie Drive: Time Machine.As you can see. I have NO backup at the moment. I would like to purchase at least a 4tb drive and am looking for safety over speed. Everything I read says RAID but it seems like I would want just one big drive to store my vids on.
Can someone help?
Thanks so much
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5 Replies
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WeibeTech RTX Series. These are trayless SATA arrays. Purchase 1 or 2TB bare SATA drives, back up all your material to a drive, pop it out and put it into a DriveBox. Looks like a VHS case. Put the drive on your shelf.
For added security, make a clone of that drive.
That’s what we do for all our archiving here.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” Winner, Best Documentary, LA Reel Film Festival.
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Hi,
There are several ways of keeping your data safe. You can look into MaxxDigital, they have great solutions. The Evo2K is an excellent choice for the workflow you are talking about. You can also look into LTO for Backup. Cache-A is a nice appliance, just plug and play, and LTO4 drives can take upto 800GB, LTO5 1.5TB and last more than 30 years.
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Just remember you need to periodically spin up the disks on your shelf and verify their content. Besides the somewhat obvious mechanical failures that can occur, magnetic media can and does suffer “bit rot” where, for any number of reasons, buts on the media get flipped and you end up with lost/corrupted data. If you’re serious about your data, keep a copy on site and a copy off site somewhere sufficiently far enough away from the other copy so your favorite disaster (fire, tornado, flooding, Godzilla attack) is very unlikely to destroy both copies. Then periodically refresh the data (rotate disks or something like that) to make sure everything is good.
This bit of paranoia can be expensive and time consume, so you need to balance that with the value of the data you’re archiving. How bad would it be to lose some/all of it? Some cases it would be a significant (business ending?) problem, some a minor inconvenience and some you probably wouldn’t even notice (we all tend to be pack rats at times).
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Thanks everyone. Really appreciate the time. I looked at those solutions and they seem pretty expensive.
2 Follow up questions:1. I was thinking of buying 2 units of 2x2tb each. One would be the first BU and the second BU for the BU.
They would both be the type of drive that just fills and then goes to the next one. Cost is around 800.00 from OWC2. I am going to copy 1.5 Tb from one external to another. Can I just drag and drop and WAIT?
Thanks folks. Very grateful for your expertise 🙂
JC
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We do pretty much what Walter said. Bare 1 TB SATA drives and an external SATA drive box that we copy to. We make a backup of the backup and I keep one set at home and one at the office. We are up to 30 backup SATA drives at this point with 30 additional offsite. It enough to nearly keep me up at night if that data was ever lost.
Strongly considering LTO. Or hoping Santa will bring us a faster larger version of BluRay data discs.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com
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