Samsung 30 TB drive

[Tom Sefton]

1 – cool!
2 – yes!

Co-owner at Pollen Studio
http://www.pollenstudio.co.uk

[Bob Zelin]

load 30 of these 30TB into this –
https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/tes-3085u

and you get 900 TB in 2 Rack units.
But considering that according to https://www.red.com/tools, that 8K full frame is under 200 MB/sec, which can be achived with nice boring SATA drives, isn’t this a little over kill ?

https://www.red.com/tools/recording-time

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Michael Gissing]

In a few years we will look back and laugh at why we thought 30TB SSD was overkill, until we look at the current price. When this is cheap we will all need it. Meanwhile, Bob’s right. SATA RAID is fine.

[Bob Zelin]

I know I will get yelled at by younger editors for bringing this up, but “back when I was a youngster” – and we had
3TB and 9TB AVID SCSI drives (and smaller before that) – there was not that much space, so you did your low res cut (now called proxy workflow), and RE CONFORMED at the end of the job to full resolution (or you went to a linear on line house to conform the video with your edit list). Fast forward to today – “kids” (you know, the ones that love FCP X, and started making videos without a lot of knowledge) – don’t know the process of conform. So I can install a 100 TB shared storage system for them, and because of no conform process (why cant we edit with the naitve 6K media all the time) – 100TB of storage is used up in 9 months.

So of course, you are correct – we will look back and say “900 TB – I need more than that ! – that will be used in less than a year”.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com

[Steve Connor]

[Bob Zelin] “and we had
3TB and 9TB AVID SCSI drives “

TBs? I remember hiring 36GB SCSI RAID’s for our Avids and they weren’t cheap!

\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka

[Paul Neumann]

Mine was 8 70gb drives. Man I was something to behold telling people I had 500gb of scsi RAID storage!

[Joseph W. bourke]

The first graphics machine I worked on was a Quantel Paintbox. The bare 10 inch platters were, if I remember correctly, 335mb (that’s Megabytes!). Of course we were working in standard definition, putting graphics to one inch and Beta SP, so file size was fairly manageable. I still have a few of the bare platters kicking around my office for curiousity sake.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Mark Smith]

I had a media 100 system with 4 gigs of the nosiest possible raid you can imagine. and I thought that was a lot of storage!

[James Culbertson]

[Bob Zelin] ” “back when I was a youngster””

I remember the first Micronet 2 GByte Raid 0 disk array I bought in 1993. Micronet did not even know it would not work for the continuous needs of video capture and playback (somewhere around a maximum of 3 MBps MJPEG capture as I recall; SVHS quality!). After some consultation with senior tech support staff they wrote an updated driver for me and shipped it overnight on a floppy in order to get the thing to work with my little Radius VideoVision Studio card (on a Mac Quadra 840av). I guess I must have been their first video beta tester. Fun times.

[Kevin Rag]

Oh yes. We had 6x 18GB drives a little bigger than a BlackMagic Ultrastudio HD mini. On Mac 9500s. Lol!

K