Is the 6-7 years powered (spinning)? On Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 1:22 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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