Re: [Avid-L2] what are yall using to archive

we use our own purpose built spinning disk storage pods. filled with 45 2tb drives for 90tb each now until larger ones get as cheap. you can call us to ask what they cost, but they are 10s of thousands less than same sized commercially available storages. they are online NAS storages with bonded interfaces for gigE speeds to multiple systems at full bandwidth. they use off the shelf components so if there is a failure (which we have not had yet) they can be fixed easily and affordably.

we edit off of them with reasonable resolutions (no uncompressed) with multiple clients. they are great for central repositorys, work great with VFX systems and graphic artists.

they run ZFS zraid2 so they are looking for problems and fixing any without the Data Rot that comes with raid5 or 6. i've replaced only 2 drives in the units and not suffered downtime for rebuilding that comes with traditional raid. good thing as using commodity drives they all have been RMA'd by seagate under their warranty.

with proper file system like zfs and spinning disk you have electricity cost (if constantly running) but could have less failure rate of bad tapes or tapes not loading....not looking for a flame war, but if an archive is accessible directly and monitored on the bit level, this is better than shelving something and hoping it opened.

we've got our 13 years of our data on these pods. handy.

David C. Ballard
President & Creative Director | LAB 601, Inc.
LAB 601 Digital Post
404.876.4601
www.lab601.com<http://www.lab601.com/>

From: mike cardeiro <mcardeiro@yahoo.com<mailto:mcardeiro@yahoo.com>>
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Date: Friday, January 18, 2013 10:20 AM
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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
Editor/Animator/Compositor
D4 Creative Group - Philadelphia, PA

http://www.michaelcardeiro.com/resume/
http://www.youtube.com/user/mcardeiro

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