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Mar 8, 2011 6:56 PM in response to NJS Prodby Meg The Dog,http://www.caldigit.com/
Or buy rock-solid enclosures and populate with bare drives of your choice:
http://www.macgurus.com/store/ecom-catshow/SATAEnclosures.html
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Mar 8, 2011 6:57 PM in response to NJS Prodby Studio X,Welcome to the forum.
You need to offer a whole lot more information.
How much storage? 2TB? 20TB? 200TB?
What are you doing about redundancy? Where is your backup of the backup?
Is this online, offline, nearline? How often do you plan on accessing this?
How do you plan on expanding the capacity? Storage is always a moving target.
How many users? Just you? A bunch of stations?
What infrastructure do you have in place now?
And so on...
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Mar 8, 2011 7:11 PM in response to Studio Xby NJS Prod,I will be the sole user, I am looking at 8 to 10 TB to start. I would like to have the ability to expand the storage. I have projects on my system that eventually will be archived. My system has 4 TB of internal storage. The project will be a half hour show that will most likely be multiple episodes. I am currently working on a stand alone Mac Pro. I want to know what storage system is best for this. -
Mar 8, 2011 8:09 PM in response to NJS Prodby Studio X,You'll likely want an enclosure that allows you to swap drives. You'll also want something that allows you to create redundant backups.
MacBurly makes nifty sledless esata multiple drive enclosures. You can conform them as JOBD which gives you unlimited storage capacity.
Stay away from Drobo.
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Mar 17, 2011 5:57 PM in response to Studio Xby Dean Lindsay,Why not Drobo? I'm starting my research on backup options and discovered Drobo and the whole enclosure/drive swap option. Sounds better than my LaCie line up, like little soldiers, adding to the regiment as they fill up. -
Mar 17, 2011 6:09 PM in response to Dean Lindsayby Studio X,I have a deep and abiding aversion to anything proprietary when it comes to storage.
If I can't use Carbon Copy Cloner to back it up, and I can't take a drive out to read it when the box fails, I'm not interested.
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Mar 17, 2011 6:20 PM in response to Studio Xby Dean Lindsay,So what would you recommend for external storage for FCP projects? Would a series of 1TB drives daisy chained be adequate for expansion as they fill up VS a RAID array VS the sata enclosure option? -
Mar 17, 2011 8:15 PM in response to Dean Lindsayby Studio X,MacBurly makes good quality multi drive sledless enclosures.
They can be configured a number of ways.
If I'm doing simple backups, I might think about an 8 drive enclosure. 4 drives stay in the device and 4 drives are removed for storage off site. No RAIDS for off line storage.
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Mar 18, 2011 5:56 AM in response to Studio Xby Dean Lindsay,Thanks. Guess I need to do some reading about RAID and the diff btw that and straight forward ext HD's. -
Mar 1, 2016 2:02 PM in response to NJS Prodby Ziatron,Nothing lasts longer than M-Disk. 1000 year estimated lifetime.
You have to buy an optical drive that can burn M-Disks. These are readily available.
http://www.amazon.com/M-DISC-Blu-ray-Permanent-Archival-Backup/dp/B00KGWV6MI