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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
I mean, come on, hard drives fail all the time! With the amount I film, no hard drives can realistically store all my raw video without having a giant rack of multiple 1 or 2 Tb hard drives sucking up power and taking up space that keeps growing every month. And backing up the data means doubling or tripling that amount of space! I may go tapeless eventually for a more efficient workflow, but I have to wrap my head around having my precious data stored in so flimsy a media with redundant backups and I just can't see dedicating the space for it.
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1TB drives average around 80 bucks each now. They're cheaper than tape, on a "per-hour stored" basis, and take up less space. If you use them like tape, and keep stacks of them around with an external SATA dock (or just use externals - 90 bucks), they don't consume power.
And how do you back up tapes without doubling or tripling the space used, now?
