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.
Spinning media – the traditional hard disk.There are four broad categories of storage technology that we can use: The more cameras you edit at the same time, the faster the seek times need to be to keep up with playback. When we start doing multicam editing, seek times become relevant. If you are doing standard media editing, the first two – capacity and bandwidth – are the most important. Seek times – how fast the heads move from one file to the next.Bandwidth – how fast it transfers data between the storage device and the computer.Storage capacity – how much the device holds.When it comes to handling large, unstructured media files, three specs are most important: Within the unstructured group are large files, like media, and smaller files, like word processing documents. Structured data means databases, where the files are organized in precise ways. When it comes to storage, there are two types of data that are stored to a hard disk: structured and unstructured. Storage that is too slow or too small is just wasted money. Because storage is so essential, make sure to pick storage for its performance not just its ability to meet your budget. In general, we will spend far more for storage than we will spend for a computer. (I’m not sure I could even do it in a book – the subject is so vast and changes daily.) So, think of this as a snapshot of where we are today, along with trends that media professionals need to pay attention to in the near future. It is impossible, in a blog, to summarize the entire state of storage today. Finally, today, our podcast – Digital Production Buzz – spent the entire show talking about backups and archiving. Then, yesterday, I attended the Creative Storage Conference in Los Angeles. Nothing demands more from your storage system than multicam editing.
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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.
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