This topic frequently gets discussed, but as tech rapidly changes, I was wondering if any of you would like to offer an up-to-date recommendation.
We have about 12TB of footage - mostly ProResHQ - from a feature length doc ("The Anonymous People") we just finished. There are many additional shorter stories we plan edit for web and other uses that didn't make it into the feature.
For the feature we offlined at DNx36 and then relinked back to the full rez material for finishing. This allowed us to use the internal drives bays of the MacPro for about everything. For final grading we consolidated and moved media via a FW drive over to a Symphony with its own CalDigit drives at another location.
Now, we'd like to get a better drive solution that allows us to cut these other stories at full resolution without all the media management. We'd need at least 12TB of storage fast enough to edit with. Our main system is a MacPro with 3 empty slots running MC6.5. (but no thunderbolt port). It would be ideal to have a 12TB unit that was somewhat portable as we may be splitting up the work between editors in different locations. Also, the media is already backed-up onto numerous 3.5" drives at least twice, so we don't think this new system needs to be concerned with media redundancy.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Craig Mikhitarian
ACM Productions, Ltd.
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