[Frank Delaney]

Well obviously as reasonable as possible – ideally not much more that 1500 euros(I’m based in Europe) which is approx 2000 dollars. But Reliability is key here. I dont mind slow-ish backups they can run overnight but I cannot afford to loose data again – I’m shooting TV projects on large budgets and clients commercial projects (again large budgets) on cards – no rushes on tape sitting on the shelf for when the S-one-TEE hits the fan and a drive goes down.

I have the internal mac drives for speed for editing. I can keep the current working projects on the MAC internal drives if necessary and maybe overspill onto a external hard drive like a g-raid. Then archive the finished projects maybe onto another drive or array and then backup.

I’d love a really secure backup and an expandable system, ideally that 2 macs can access. I only have a wireless router no ethernet cable setup, maybe i could upgrade that to a faster one….

I dont have large enough amounts of data for a server.

on the Laptop max I need 2tb

on the Edit suite – approx 6 tb expandable for future proofing for working editing and keeping recent;ly closed projects, then maybe a total of 8-10tb for backups.

Now I know this will cost more that 2000 dollars but I’m happy to start small but smart and expand to this.

[Frank Delaney]

Thanks a mill….

so I’d shoot 25P – cut and grade my show to full finish. Then convert using one of the methods above?

Correct

I wont be doing this often so hardware isn’t economically viable….am I better taking the finished 25P version to a facilities house and getting them to do it? Or will my own conversion be as good? via compressor or software route