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David Himmelberger replied to the discussion Moving Files to Harddisk for Archival: File Format in the forum Storage & Archiving

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 08:26:21 +0000

Reply to Moving Files to Harddisk for Archival: File Format

Thank you both, very insightful!
I’ll look into adding LTO to the solution, have been pondering with it for a while but as hdd costs are coming down I’m not sure wether it’s not overkill.

I’ve looked into Neofinder and DiskCatalogMaker, so far I can’t decide which is better, most important for me is that the catalogs are stable and stay readable and…

David Himmelberger started the discussion Moving Files to Harddisk for Archival: File Format in the forum Storage & Archiving

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:00:15 +0000

Moving Files to Harddisk for Archival: File Format

Hello there,

Is there a general consensus on how exactly (File Format, GUID/MBR, Sector Size) to Format big Harddisks (12TB+) when moving old Project Folder off the NAS and backing them up mirrored? We’re doing this mostly on mac and I wonder what’d be best.

Thank you!

FYI the workflow so far hasn’t been very consistent, but for the future I…