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Re: Storage and Archiving
by Bob Cole on Mar 22, 2008 at 12:44:20 am

LTO tape looks like the best bet, and Quantum has a terrific, MXF-aware device, but it is around $7k, and that is probably more than most people want to spend for something they hope they never need. The bottom line is reliability, and tape is more reliable than hard drives. BluRay lacks capacity.

Due to cost, I suspect most of us will use hard drives for source media, BluRay for finished shows, and live with the fact that the hard drives with our source media won't last forever.

Maybe it's time for a reality check. I've diligently kept shelfloads of tapes, and what happens when I need to use some old material??? I go back to the edited master, because it already has the "good bits," and it's faster than searching the shelves for the right camera tape.

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