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Tapeless in Minneapolis
I have made the investment and business direction to go completly Tapeless in the next year or two. We are a Live Events video production company. I bought the HVX-200, and a FS-100 so I can play with some of the big boys in town without buying the high end video decks for HD. I am archiving to 500 GB drives and Including then as my packages to clients. Any advice on what I should do. I am spending about the same for hard drives as if I was buying high end tape. This seems more effeciant in the short term, but I am curious about long term hard drive life.
I am a FCP 5.2 user and a DVDSTPRO4 user
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While I’ve seen many people posting how they use DVD-R and removable harddisks for archiving footage, I just don’t have a good feeling about either… HDs need to be used or the bearings can dry out, and burned DVDs are not only highly scratchable, but current research suggests that the heat-activated inks begin to deteriorate in as little as 5 years.
When I get my HPX500 I’ll also be buying an Exabyte or similar packet-tape backup drive. They say they’ve dropped, drowned and frozen tapes that still restore 100% data, and claim a shelf-life of 30 years. The drive is around $1200 and tapes start out ok at $15/30gb but they wind up closer to $1/Gb for higher capacity tapes, up to $80 list for the 80gb (160gb compressed) tapes. Dunno if that qualifies as cheap, but I’d be alot more confident when I have to restore and revise a project a few years from now.
Plus… you can hand over the tapes to the client but they still have to come to you (or an edit house with similar tape storage) for future work! =)
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Great more things to buy………I never ends Thanks for the advice will be looking into this and soon.
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