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LTO is a faff and needs dedicated workflow and management but it's the only true long term storage option for video.
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Ugh. I would say bring back the days of tape but the storage space would be mad. I remember the faff with retrieving tapes - in fact.... here we go. Throwback to one of my early forum posts:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/155007/
So many of those tapes just ended up slowly moulding in a basement. Probably spent 30+ million quid on acquiring all that footage over the years in the value of cost per package. I remember digitising a few of the rare tapes to shove on Getty at some stage. Still have the AVIs somewhere.
CYOA
Have considered LTO etc in the past but just seemed like another faff/system to invest in and got disheartened quickly.