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April 12th, 2002, 08:44 AM | #1 |
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A terrabyte of disk space!
I'm feeling out all my different options for having a terrabyte or more of disk space on hand for video editing. Has anyone else gone this route before? What's the best/cheapest way to amass mega storage that's reliable, fast enough for standard definition DV, and inexpensive given that a lot of data will need to be stored?
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April 12th, 2002, 09:52 AM | #2 |
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Speed should not be a problem now-a-days. Getting a terabyte
cheap is. Do you really need *that* much? I'm personally going to go with around 60 - 150 GB for video stuff and offline this to DVD+R/+RW I think, not sure yet. Reliability (and price) go down like this: - SCSI RAID array (very expensive) - SCSI disks without array - IDE RAID array - IDE disks without array (most cheap) Going to get a terabyte of space is going to be a painfull experience. Some of these options listed above might not even be possible inside one system (because of the PCI slots, cooling, space inside your PC). You can also buy external harddisk clusters (these are SCSI or IDE over firewire). But now we are getting very exepensive. I do not know what options exist with firewire drives. You can probably daisy-chain a lot of these, so this might be your best option. But then you need to employ software RAID if you want real-time protection (use Windows 2000 or XP for that). Another solution instead of RAID (which is a real-time, a tad expensive thing) might be to mirror each file at night. Get yourself a package (Windows 2000 can do this native I believe) that mirrors one (or more) partitions of data to another one (or more, preferred on another disc) during the night. Then you are not protected during the day time, but you should not loose too much work anyway. Most of the time you can see (mostyle HEAR) a harddisk crash coming before it happens. Good luck!
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