![]() In this case we are able to have access to 88% of the total available storage in the drive itself.Īs files in medium format get bigger and video files/quality become monstrous, we’ve run into a major cost consideration with Archive storage. One thing to note is that when you have a RAID 5 drive with 8 drives inside, you are able to exceed the typical 75% storage capacity limitations. We have this drive hooked up to a Mac Mini server that everyone can access through the network. Once this happens we dump everything onto a monster 64TB G-SPEED Studio XL that has a total of 56 TB available. Once we finish and deliver a product then the library and working files are ready for backup. We've yet to ever have an enterprise drive fail (knock on wood). ![]() It's a better build quality and better manufacturing. ![]() If you are unfamiliar with enterprise-class drives it means that they are rated at 2.0 million hours mean time between failure (MTBF), and receive additional manufacturing and testing at extended temperature ranges to ensure a target of less than one non-recoverable bit error per 1015 bits read (i.e. When so much money and time goes into creating a digital file, make sure you have a rock solid foundation to back you up no matter what. It's never worth risking having your data in just 1 location. Again for us, the G-RAID Studio drives have offered us the faster read/write speeds and also have enterprise class drives installed in the enclosure. These are great solutions for speedy backup but provide no redundancy so we have to travel with 2 to ensure redundancy. If we are shooting video, we tend to backup data every 30 minutes and copy cards to one of these RAID 0 systems, which is then cloned using Carbon Copy Cloner to the second RAID 0 system. We are sometimes limited to the size of the 1TB drives so we always travel with two additional 6TB Thunderbolt 2 drives that act as mirrors of each other, both set to RAID 0. If we are in a location indoors, we will often times also bring a smaller and faster RAID 0 solution as well, especially if we are shooting both photography and video. ![]()
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