Re: Choosing external hard drives

Hi Ken,

Thanks so much for your reply.

Basically, i film and edit large amounts of interviews for a web site that is constantly changing it's content. So although i could lay final edits to tape, it doesn't really make sense, as chances are i will need to do a re edit at some point in the near future.

Ideally i want something that may only start of with 2-3 terabytes storage for now, but that can be upgraded with relative ease. I would love something that can just act as a central storage unit for all the projects i'm working on, but that has the safety or RAID should one of the drives go, so i can just replace it.

The other question i had was to do with the different RAID system 0,1,5 etc. and which one strikes the best balance with security and capacity.

The footage format is DV PAL.

Unfortunately although i would love to say that x, or y is the best option to my aboves. i have to respect that they have said "we are a start up, and need to keep costs down as much as possible"