Re: Long Term Storage Solutions for Red Camera

[Bob Zelin] "do you think that 1 Gig ethernet will exist in 10 years ?"

You bring up a good point, Bob. In 10 years it will all be different anyway. There's nothing permanent that's available for archive today. It will all change but in 10 years, and we will make yet another decision and buy something else. we will then transfer our LTO catalog to whatever that is going to be just like we are with our temporary hard drives right now. Just like people that were archiving on PATA drives, when the move went to SATA, guess who was buying SATA drives? It's the nature of the game. When iOmega 1GB or 2GB Jaz drives were suddenly too small, guess who moved to PATA?

But for now, LTO is reliable and it's so easy to make two copies and it runs in the background. The management is minimal and it sits on your network available to anyone. It's quite cool and I encourage you to go get a demo of the Cache-A products at NAB this year. You might see the temporary light.

Also, for those that are interested, LTO is bondable. Can't get that on a hard drive.