Jeff you are correct about RAID 6. And between use they don't have to be kept powered up so mechanical failure should not be a problem. Correct?
I'm using cloud plus a hard drive. At my age I am not worried about how long Google will be with us. Steve On Sun, Sep 11, 2022, 2:41 PM Jeff Kreines <[email protected]> wrote: > Colorlab does very affordable digital to film transfers in both 16mm (4K) > and 35mm. 35mm with optical track is only $.50/ft. These are direct to > print — so no generation loss, but also no negative. (They can obviously do > negatives to but it’s much more expensive.) > > But a filmout is not really the same thing as a video. Another possibility > is to put it on the cloud, where the cloud service ostensibly keeps > everything backed up. > > I also have a server with RAID 6 which gives double redundant spare > drives. Two drives (total 12) can fail and the data can still be recovered > automatically. > > SSDs may also be a potential backup as they have no moving parts to fail. > Most SSD failure is caused by too many write cycles but that wouldn’t be an > issue with a backup drive. > > > > Jeff Kreines > Kinetta > [email protected] > kinetta.com > > Sent from iPhone. > > On Sep 11, 2022, at 3:52 PM, S. Mullen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 >> > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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