--- Mike Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for hard drive space, it hasn't been a problem > for me. A full hour > of HDV video captured as a single clip takes 13 > gigabytes, a pretty > small amount these days when a 500-gig drive is > relatively cheap.
I just added a 558 gig RAID 5 array to my PC. Four 200 gig Seagate SATA drives connected to a Silicon Image PCI card. I have a 233 gig IDE drive in the box, not connected, for use as an offline spare I can hook up with a SATA converter should one of the RAID drives quit. The RAID setup cost me just over $260 Well worth it since I've had a couple of drive failures (both Maxtor drives!) eat bunches of data. I also have a 74 gig drive with XP on it and another 150 gig drive for various stuff. If I plugged in the 233 gig I'd have a bit over 1,000 gigs total. :) (All sizes are formatted capacity.) The main problem with hugeabytes of storage is backing it all up. An online backup using hard drives is just more constantly spinning stuff to fail. Right now the only offline backup with enough media capacity to not require hundreds of them is Open Linear Tape or OLT. The latest OLT stores 200 gigabytes UNCOMPRESSED on one tape. Unfortunately a single OLT4 drive costs around $5,000. Ouch! However the media is affordable at around $60 a tape. If you want the ultimate backup, there are OLT systems with almost 300 drives and a magazine capacity of 16,000 or more tapes. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
