One note of caution...we just purchased Cache for archiving at Frontline. Soon discovered that the system has limitations on direct connected drive capacity. I believe it is 2.5TB. We have lots of shelved 12 TB drives that now need to be connected via a network to be backed up, thereby eating into transfer speeds. Cache has been great trying to find a workaround, but not there just yet.
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--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Hedberg wrote:
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> Hi Mike,
>
> I moved us over to a Cache-A system (Pro Cache) a couple of years ago. http://www.cache-a.com/productspro.php
> Having had 2 hard drives refuse to spin up after sitting on a shelf for too long (didn't seem too long at the time!) we knew that we needed to move off of 'stacked on a shelf' hard drives as storage.
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> I have been very happy with LTO5 as an archive solution.
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> I use it for all of our Avid jobs, as well as our Flame archives. (longer setup story but happy to elaborate if you need).
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> I will tell you the one thing that I don't like about the Cache-A system. I don't care for its 'finding' ability. I find it too slow and cumbersome.
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> I do have a workaround to that... I archive, then restore the tape, and 'index' the restore with software called 'Neo Finder' http://www.cdfinder.de/
> It's search is LIGHTNING fast. (and also available via network)
>
> As I mentioned, this system has been working solidly for over 2 years now.
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>
> Jeff
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> Jeff Hedberg
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> > > From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> > > [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com ] On
> > > Behalf Of
> > > mike cardeiro
> > > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 7:20 AM
> > > To: avid l 2
> > > Subject: [Avid-L2] what are yall using to archive
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Over the past few years we have changed from mostly tape to mostly
> > > digital
> > > shooting. As a consequence the way we used to archive old projects
> > > doesn't
> > > work.
> > >
> > > Sometimes I will end up with 1 or 2 usb drives with all the footage from
> > > a
> > > shoot...theres a big pile of them building up in one of the Avid suites.
> > > Frankly, I don't put a lot of faith in the longevity of these little
> > > drives.
> > >
> > > I'm thinking of getting a large raid server that can just hold all the
> > > stuff
> > > (till it gets full then we'll have another talk about longer term
> > > archival)
> > >
> > > What are you using to archive old footage that was aquired digitally?
> > >
> > > Mike Cardeiro
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