Re: Long Term Storage Solutions for Red Camera

you guys are all such big shots, advising Eric to backupt to a Cache-A LTO4A. Have you told him that this costs $7995 ? Many people faint when they hear this. And your old Quantum/Tandberg is now "obsolete", and believe me, we will look back on the Cache-A in 5 years and laugh (probably sooner than that).

Becuase SATA drives are SO cheap, a very simple, easy alternative is to create MULTIPLE SATA copies. SATA drives (like Hitachi 500 Gig) are under 60 bucks, and at that price, you can buy a LOT of drives for $7995. And as for "spinning them up every three months" - this is a little extreme. When Apple and others do a production run of their computers in China, or when Seagate, Hitachi and Western Digital do a production run, these drives sit in a hot warehouse for A LONG TIME before they ever see a computer - a lot longer than 3 months. And you know what - most computers actually work when you first turn them on (and they have been sitting around for a lot longer than 3 months before you got them).

Chassis from companies like Wiebetech make it very easy to pop in and out raw drives.

No one commented on Retrospect. The Cache-A (which is the ex employees of Quantum) use a web GUI that is built into the Cache-A to run it - you DO NOT use Retrospect or Bru with this product.

Bob Zelin