Cloud storage is also becoming more of an option for large amounts of data, but of course has its drawbacks as well.
It’s not location-specific, it’s disaster-proof. You are basically paying Google or Amazon or whoever to do all that constant maintenance for you. But a regular subscription cost probably is more expensive in the long term than buying new hard drives over and over. The biggest drawback is that you are at the whim of business/trends and the company’s desire/ability to keep the service available. On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 1:23 PM FrameWorks Admin <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, film output is common practice. Film kept in the right conditions of > temperature and humidity can last 200 years; this is called passive > storage. Otherwise the digital files have to be constantly copied, called > active storage. The average life span of a hard drive is 6-7 years. > > One way to manage your files is to set up a RAID array in which the files > are constantly being backed up across several drives with redundancy. In > the eventuality that one drive fails, you can swap in a fresh drive and the > data will be reconstructed. But it is a good idea to have two of these > mirrored, and in separate locations! An easy system to set up is a Synology > Diskstation, a unit the size of a toaster, with slots for 2, 4, 6 or 8 > drives of any size. > > - Pip Chodorov > > > > On Sep 12, 2022, at 5:03 AM, Albert Alcoz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can it be an option to transfer the digital video file to 35mm or 16mm > film? > I heard this process is common in commercial fiction feature films that > have currently been recorded digitally in order to preserve work without > relying on hard drives. > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 7:39 PM Philip Jozef Brubaker < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> For all of you who work with digital video, can you recommend a storage >> method to keep those files alive (as long as you are?) External hard >> drives will fail after several years. Other than continually moving a >> zipped file from one old drive to a new one, is there a better way to store >> and preserve your digital work for the long-term? >> >> > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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