Thanks Neil, those numbers are very helpful when trying to do calculations, especially looking 5 years into the future.

Neil, thanks for your insights. As I’ve gone back down the rabbit hole of archive and storage I’ve been reminded that storage and archiving cannot be all three of cheap, easy, quick.

We have 200 LTO-5 tapes backed up through Retrospect and probably 200-300 LaCie Rugged desktop drives. Fortunately we’re still able to recover using Retrospect and t…

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Welp, little short of 5 years later, little did we know what was coming in 2020…

20TB HDD’s are indeed out, B&H offering 20TB Seagate Exos drives for $369. LTO 9 is out with 18TB native capacity, pretty tempting. Hedge is still around; I’m also seeing Symply’s name come up pretty often. Seems like companies are slowly starting to swing back from…

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Did you ever figure this out? I’m curious as well.

Kevin, thank you for the explanation and reply. My EP just asked about randomness for the flapping, you’re a mind-reader! Thanks

Hi, I have a PSD in after effects with each butterfly in this logo on its own layer. Which method would you recommend for an efficient way to animate the butterflies so they “fly” around the screen and then form the shape of the heart. The screenshot attached would be the ending frame. Thanks in advance.

Are you planning to edit off of the NAS? If so you’ll want to find out the model, and how old it and the hard drives in it are.

One of the issues you may run into is trying to convert 32-bit codecs if you’re on MacOS Catalina or newer. Is that the case for you? If you convert old videos/DVDs etc, depending what they were digitized to, ProRes may…

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Hi Steven,

Sounds like you’re searching for both storage and an asset management system?

What is brand and model of NAS you’re currently using?

You mentioned a lot of the files are on the NAS, but what do you estimate the total size of the archive is?

Can you give an idea of the old formats and codecs?

Thanks