Re: [Avid-L2] Re: More folks are panning the 4K push... storage costs

I don't know about you, but I have to store a lot more than masters, and
drives are a fractional cost of my actual storage infrastructure.

Let's assume we're shooting a fairly modest (in digital terms) 10:1 ratio -
our 90 minute feature film is now 15 hours of raw footage. We have to
store, at least:
- Camera original x 2-3
- Intermediate editing format
- Uncompressed plates for VFX
- Conformed Uncompressed(?) final footage
- Master in multiple formats
- Tape backups of all the above

This is true of HD, 2K or 4K, but the file sizes increase quite
dramatically with 4K.

I can buy bare drives for $0.10/GB or less, but I need a SAN/NAS to manage
them, and that may have licensing costs involved. I need stand alone or
offsite storage for backups. I need tape backup hardware and software. All
of that stuff add a lot to the $0.10/GB

I modestly priced 32TB SAN is likely to set you back $12-18k and that's not
going to get you through many 4K projects. It's going to be quite a lot
more if you want Avid-aware storage and sharing too.

Drives are cheap, but don't let that fool you into thinking *storage* is
cheap.

Dylan Reeve
http://dylanreeve.com/


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Tony Quinsee-Jover <tony@hdheaven.co.uk>wrote:

> **
>
>
> On 28/08/2013 17:30, Terence Curren wrote:
>
> http://bit.ly/Nmtrat
>
> Peanuts!
>
> $2800 to store a one hour master of uncompressed 32 bit 4k at 60fps
> according to those figures. Oh wow, poor me. That's a TINY percentage
> of the budget of a 4k production.
>
> Seeing as most 4k productions that I'm seeing are 12bit 24fps that
> figure should actually be $1000 for a one hour master anyhow.
>
> Drives costs less every year per MB.
>
> Storage costs for 4k are, as a percentage of everything else, pretty
> much irrelevant.
>
> Tony
>
>
>


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