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Seagate's momentus laptop drives have operating shock tolerances of 350 Gs and 900 Gs non-operating, cost $1/gig or less, they're smaller than the Rev cartridges, and come fully enclosed in a metal enclosure with no door to allow dust/moisture in. That seems like a much better archive option even before you start considering Iomega's track record - I've had far more zip and jazz disks fail over the years than hard drives, and that makes me very wary of any of their products when it comes to long-term reliability for archiving. |
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I think one of the cheaper ways to go storage wise is just a straight up raid 5 array. Only a snowball chance in hell that more than 1 drive would go bad at the same time. You would probably have a much better chance of having a fire or water damage destroy all your stuff than 2 drives going out at the same time. If 1 drive goes bad, you can rebuild the drive from the others in a matter of hours. You're talking a 2TB redundant solution for around $500, which is only around $.25 per GB.
I'm all for removeable media, But the cost to archive the footage on this solution for a full 16Gb SxS would be only $4. |
i still think the only reliable way to long term store is the xdcam hd professional discs. They are so solid and reliable. As soon as the usb drive will record in full hd i will buy it.
I sometimes work for Sky News in London, my old company, they will completely switch to p2 in January. That's like 60 odd cameras. They are archiving on XDCAM as they don't trust their servers or hard drives. Kind of would have made sense to just buy XDCAM! |
Interesting Phil about Sky News going to P2 since TF1 in France have also gone over to P2 with a large purchase of these cameras to Digibeta SX. Not sure about TF1's archiving plans.
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Ok - the cards are expensive, but how much does a service cost on a tape based system? How much is a set of new heads? The income Sony get from service has virtually vanished overnight - one of my old Betacam SPs that still has really nice pictures now needs $1500 spending on it - which isn't worth it. apart from buying the new cameras, what running costs are there? none worth mentioning - so why all the moaning about media costs?
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Just mentioning it as one of several possible options. Certainly not ideal but maybe useful to someone. |
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