We're out of room on our xraid. Too many media files. A new promise vtrack array will cost us somewhere in the area of 16k.
I bought a little drobo with 4TB and droboshare for about $1600. The thought is we can delay our array purchase for another year if this works.
The plan is to use the drobo as an archive device on Final Cut Server. Media that we don't access all that often will get archived to the drobo. We can still search for it in FCSvr and view the proxies, it's only when we retrieve it will it take a bit longer.
I haven't tried it yet because I need IS to come up with a backup strategy in case something goes terribly wrong.
The drobo, which is fully protected storage, has got to be one of the easiest installs I've ever done of any hardware. Seriously. No tools. Just slide the drives in, install the dashboard and away it goes.
It's actually living on our network quite happily without any problems. So far I'm impressed.
We're going to run it for a bit before we formally attach it to FCSvr.
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Alas, the problem of going purely digital. With tapes at least you have a hard copy of your source --all you need to do is backup the project files... Video graphics is another matter tho'
The other side of the coin though is degradation of tape, need for a physical storage system plus a library/catalogue system to manage the physical location on top of the metadata.
Good on you for plotting the course to digital --hope your annual and discretionary budgets can accommodate this path....
Yikes, I just checked the price of a Drobo and 4T SATA2 drives and a Drobo with 4 bays, your in at $1600 for lots of storage sweetness...
Nice choice sir.
Pure tapeless is the only way to go. We can't really record to tape, by the time you factor in true HD tape (not HDV) and the decks to play it back it gets expensive.
Archiving to blu-ray is wonky.
So drives it is. Final Cut Server is the way to track everything but it is a real learning curve. It's all about the metadata, and if you don't tag a clip properly...It's gone. You'll never, ever find it.
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