After my recent rant on Solid State Media altering the work flows and how we archive our footage from here till eternity I came across a post on Oliver Peters blog.  I’m not going to shamelessly re:blog his very articulate post, but I really recommend that you check it out as it will cause some serious thought!  He points out a few of the caveat’s that we as creators need to be aware of.  He also points out 5 great tips that we should all be aware of as well…

Also, with drive space expanding and prices rapidly decreasing – I went back to John Flowers post on LifeZero.org “Super Fast 4TB RAID for under $2k” and with the new 1.5TB drives available from Seagate I built (on paper for now) a 8x 1.5 TB RAID 5 Array for a cost of $2400 but with a capacity of 10 TB!!!

What does this mean for the average guy – you can now afford more reliable drives in very fast configurations that were unreachable for media pros in the past.  I still have a working JMR Fortra SCSI Raid enclosure that was $10k (7 years ago – but it’s nearly without point as I carry 3 TB in my backpack now!)