I found this on the AVS forum, thought it might be of some interest to those who need lots of not overly fast online storage.
From my research for those who want fast, vast amounts of storage the Seagate 'NS' line of HDDs get recommended by everyone. You do need deep pockets though as these are 5 to 10x the price of regular drives.
I'm looking into this because lately I'm spending too much time shuffling data around trying to find space. I have two current projects that are overflowing 1TB disks but that's not the biggest problem. Storing content on offline disks has two problems:
1) Finding the stuff. Clients seem to want to turn up at a minutes notice to work on their project. Just finding their disk can be a chore. I know, I need to get my act together with cataloguing.
2) Backup. With everything in the one place backup to tape become much easier.
I was one of the people who said this HiDef thing was no more of a problem than DV and yet for some reason the amount of data involved does seem to increase dramatically. With DV we never really needed DIs, that changes with HiDef. The problem is compounded when you go tapeless, I'm seeing myself shooting more and wanting it quickly at hand.
Clearly there's a balance to all this. Even rolling your own enterprise grade SAN is expensive. Having one increases the productivity of billable hours, assuming you'd include the costs of managing the 'seat of your pants disks on a shelf' approach in your billable hours.
Bob.
From my research for those who want fast, vast amounts of storage the Seagate 'NS' line of HDDs get recommended by everyone. You do need deep pockets though as these are 5 to 10x the price of regular drives.
I'm looking into this because lately I'm spending too much time shuffling data around trying to find space. I have two current projects that are overflowing 1TB disks but that's not the biggest problem. Storing content on offline disks has two problems:
1) Finding the stuff. Clients seem to want to turn up at a minutes notice to work on their project. Just finding their disk can be a chore. I know, I need to get my act together with cataloguing.
2) Backup. With everything in the one place backup to tape become much easier.
I was one of the people who said this HiDef thing was no more of a problem than DV and yet for some reason the amount of data involved does seem to increase dramatically. With DV we never really needed DIs, that changes with HiDef. The problem is compounded when you go tapeless, I'm seeing myself shooting more and wanting it quickly at hand.
Clearly there's a balance to all this. Even rolling your own enterprise grade SAN is expensive. Having one increases the productivity of billable hours, assuming you'd include the costs of managing the 'seat of your pants disks on a shelf' approach in your billable hours.
Bob.