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We have a trio of 32TB raids on spinning disks but I hate them. They're old, loud, slow, lots of work to do multiple backups etc. Each project I quote for with above 256GB predicted data (i.e. most of them) is allocated a hard drive budget so footage'll go on an NVME as well. Optional extra for a client-owned duplicate then it's really on them. Then I keep broadcast ready masters and project files in a cloud (google drive).
I think honestly speaking though I could get the data down. In nearly 10 years of running this business and 12 years of being self employed I've needed to access to older footage 5 times after a project has been delivered. I did a test a couple of years ago and turned a load of very old rushes into H265 proxies and got rid of the raw stuff. Haven't needed any of it. Very freeing just deleting stuff.
I'm more interested in clouds now NLEs are catching up with editing on shared timelines (stuff like blackmagic cloud store) etc. But not interested enough to be an 'early' adopter.
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What sort of stuff are you shooting and do you really need to keep it? The reason I ask is in the last 20 years I can count on one hand the stuff I've needed to cut from archived rushes. The majority of the time with even the biggest production companies things get archived off to LTO, sent off site never to be seen again.
As long as you've got clean masters at the highest resolution possible and audio stems (and consolidated project with just that line and supers etc) that'll do 99.99% of the time for any reversioning you might need to do.
I just cut so I don't have the need but if i was running a full service production company I'd charge clients for long term storage, first year free and then a yearly charge if they want ongoing, if they don't want to pay then they'll have the rushes themselves. These days the majority of things I cut are around the 10tb mark in raw footage for a 30 second ad, it's just becomes an unmanageable and unnecessary cost to store it.
Obviously for feature films, docs, or any narrative longform I think archiving rushes is important but for ads and corporate there's a lot of dusty old drives and tapes that'll never get turned over again.
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If it’s large stuff photo video files I just use two hard drives and back them up so they are mirrors. Online storage you need a lot and it becomes expensive imo
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What do one man bands / videographers / company owners do for media backup here? Is anyone using a cloud solution? I’m amassing a huge amount of footage and don’t want to be storing it all on two drives for physical space and cost reasons, would rather have one physical drive and one copy in the cloud (also taking care of the off-site copy should my office burn down).
I’ve been looking at Dropbox business. Thoughts?