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

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

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.

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.