

However, if you are doing multicam work, I strongly recommend you use an SSD RAID to store your multicam source files. SSD prices continue to fall, though they have not yet equaled the price of spinning media. This illustration is from his presentation yesterday illustrating that standard spinning media fails either when first turned on, or after several years of use. Tim Standing is the Chief Technology Officer for SoftRAID. NOTE: Here’s an article explaining the differences in RAID levels. Ideally, if budgets permit, a 4-drive RAID 5 (or a RAID 5 with more drives) will deliver high-capacity, high-bandwidth performance along with data redundancy in case one drive dies. In general, for video editing, I recommend at least a two-drive RAID, configured as RAID 0 for best performance.
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NOTE: You can also download their statistics to analyze further, if you want. Recently, they published a blog detailing failure rates for various hard drives in capacities from 3 TB to 8 TB, based on the 82,000 drives they use in their server farms. The results are fascinating and worth reading. BackBlaze provides Cloud-based backup services, more on that in a minute. And drives from different manufactures die at different times. However, that doesn’t mean that drives last forever. Though some were projecting that spinning media was hitting a wall in capacity, traditional hard disks continue to hold staggeringly large amounts of data and are projected to grow for the next several years. There are also RAIDs, which are collections of either spinning media or SSD drives, and hybrid systems, which are a combination of two or more of these technologies.
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Two days ago, I presented a webinar on multicam editing in Final Cut Pro X. I’ve been thinking a lot about storage recently. You take it for granted until something goes wrong.
