Welcome, Guest
Username Password: Remember me
Forgot your password? Forgot your username? Create an account
Utah Film & Media Professional Forums
Media Applications
Final Cut Pro

Hard Drives - What are you using?
(1 viewing) (1) Guest
Reply Topic
New Topic
  • Page:
  • 1

TOPIC: Hard Drives - What are you using?

Hard Drives - What are you using? 1 year, 9 months ago #684

  • Alan
  • OFFLINE
  • Junior Boarder
  • Posts: 22
  • Karma: 0
I am currently in the market for a new Hard Drive system for storing and archiving, and I was wondering what other editors in the area are using?

We currently use LaCie d2 quadra drives, which are working ok, but out of the thirty or so we have around the office, three have completely failed. We are looking at moving to a tower system with built in redundancy, but I would really like to hear from people who have used this system with a Final Cut Pro workflow.

What are the benefits compared with just purchasing two Lacie drives and creating a clone of the drive after each project is complete?

As an editor, what are you using, and how is it working for your workflow?

Any questions, comments, horror stories or cautionary tales are very welcome. Thanks for all your help in advance.

Alan Lucchetti
UtahHighDef.com
White Rabbit Productions
www.utahhighdef.com
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
Reply Quote

Re:Hard Drives - What are you using? 1 year, 9 months ago #686

A completion bond company once insisted that part of our "redundant" archiving be off-site. This was to manage the risk associated with terabytes of material on one project and the vulnerability of the feature to natural disaster during editing.

Makes sense, as escrow companies do the same thing. Tape streaming (slow, but who cares?) in their case.

Flood, fire and similar fails cannot be managed effectively with all of the material stored on-site.


$0.02,

m i c h a e l
orton
Reply Quote

Re:Hard Drives - What are you using? 1 year, 9 months ago #689

As of right now I am only working on small projects so I have my footage on three stripped Raptors. They are fast but you don't get a whole lot of room but again I am working on small projects. I then use Apple's Time Machine to backup the stripped Raid. For over all long term storage,archive, and protection I use my drobo. Its all cool little device.

Raptor:
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item...22-136-322-_-Product

Drobo
drobo.com/

drobo.com/resources/drobodemo.php

I too am looking into probably changing up the way I do hard drives in the next year and was looking into "CalDigit." 500 Days of summer was cut using their products and their prices seem very responsible.

www.caldigit.com/products.asp
Reply Quote

Re:Hard Drives - What are you using? 1 year, 9 months ago #690

  • C_S_Clark
  • OFFLINE
  • Moderator
  • Work we must, but the lunch is free!
  • Posts: 256
  • Karma: 5
I currently have a custom built 5TB Serial ATA raid, but it's loud. I am working on centralizing my storage on a server via CAT 6 so that the storage can be placed somewhere else other than my editing suite.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Utah Video Production
Utah Film Company
Reply Quote

Re:Hard Drives - What are you using? 1 year, 9 months ago #699

  • Tucker
  • OFFLINE
  • Moderator
  • Posts: 59
  • Karma: 7
I guess I'm crazy but here's my setup. I have 2 internal striped raid drives inside my Mac Pro which I keep my media on. I keep my project files on a 3rd internal hard drive. BUt i also run a clone of each drive (including my local drive) each week and take them offsite.
Reply Quote
Reply Topic
New Topic
  • Page:
  • 1
Utah Film & Media Professional Forums
Media Applications
Final Cut Pro
Moderators: deepfocus, TheVizh08, tbabcock, Tucker, CoolhandLucas, gbatty5, Sigmister, trevormacdonald
Powered by Kunena
Time to create page: 0.22 seconds