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Been reading with interest, ready to move but it is the price that is keeping me from doing it...
I love technology, love the latest thing but as everyone here feel a sense of fear at going tapeless. Saw some comments on RAID, I have a RAID 5 array that I use to store current files/projects/anything business related and I run it on a server. It is suprising how many PCs now offer RAID built in but be aware, these PCs only offer RAID 0 or 1 (or 0+1 as often known) RAID 0 is useless in terms of security, it only stripes the drives to make the PC perform faster. RAID 1 is full tolerance, it mirrors the drive, so this means you have to get for example 2 x 500GB identical drives and you will only have 500GB of storage. RAID 5 allows the drives to split the contents across multiple drives, typically if you had 4 200GB drives, you would have 550GB rather than 800GB of space as each drive contains a portion of the others. Now to do this you need to have a RAID card, and not just buy a PC that has RAID on the motherboard. Might be telling you something you already know, but I was a happy bunny when this was explained to me, hope it helps someone make a decision.... |
I don't understand what going tapeless has to do with RAID. Or maybe I am just missing something.
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If you are shooting tapeless having RAID's is the best way to do it for security and speed.
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We took a major power hit during the last east coast snow storm. Multiple components in my PC got fried -even though I had a surge protector. I had my current project files backed up to 2 seperate drives but both were connected and and running at the time of the power surge. Needless to say I was very nervous that both drives may have been taken out. Fortunately that was not the case but going forward, one of my backups will be to a portable drive that I will disconnect when not in use.
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I think that's a pretty good idea right there Art.
I'm still on tape, but I think when I do go tapeless, the best (and increasingly affordable as hard drives get larger and cheaper) way is to have a combination of: (1) Copy footage off cards to your editing computer which has say Raid 1 and 4TB physical storage, yielding 2TB working space. (2) Copy footage off cards to a removeable 500GB USB 3.0 drive which is put in storage until the project is complete. Now, I have no idea how big HDV/AVCHD etc files are because I still am on the 13GB/hr miniDV standard. haha. But, I'm just guessing 500GB would be enough to store all the raw files for a typical HD wedding project. If you can go smaller, then great. |
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