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Originally Posted by DirtyDanza
like I said before.. I shoot lots and lots of content.. I have lots and lots of content now.. god forbid that the drives crash when you use these tapeless means... I know some that do tape and card at the same time...
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Mechanical failure is also possible with tapes, although the overall damage will probably be less... you might get away with a crinkled tape and losing 30 seconds of footage rather than the whole lot...
If you're worried about your hard drives crashing, why don't you back everything up? As a content producer you'd be mad not to have that redundancy. I do hobby stuff so I don't go overboard, but I do have RAID, a separate backup drive, and of course the original master tapes. (Should probably keep the masters offsite...)
Hard drive costs are coming down all the time, I don't know about HD video but with old school miniDV my cost to store an hour's worth of footage is about the same regardless of whether it's a miniDV master tape or a 13GB file on a hard drive. It's no longer necessary to spend $10k on an enterprise RAID solution for long term storage.
