Video organization

[matteusclement]

Phew! X-mas break couldn't have sooner at school.
I am going through my HDD's and it's a MESS!
I was hoping to get some advice on the next stage in my video & photography world.
First up, I have a hackintosh MP, this is why I have so many extra HDD's.

How would you organize this set up?

Internal
6 x 1TB BLK WD
3 x 500GB SG
2 x 750GB SG (one is OS)

External
2 x 1TB
I have these in one eclosure that reads as two and use this as a back up using time machine from one drive to the other drive. Is this safe?

2 x 500GB
Have as JBOD as a laptop Time machine for me and my gf's laptops.

I use photoshop for my photography but as of late I am doing ALOT of video with canon t2i + canon HV30. I convert all my raw files into prores which is eating up space, hence why so much hdd space.
As I also use color (and will be getting into AE + Motion more soon) so that eats up space on render files.

I have used this set up so far with the internals
750 - OS
2 x 1tb - raid 0 (software)
2 x 500GB - Raid 0 (software)
1 x 500 GB - windows 7 (NEVER USE IT)
2 x 1 tb - general storage & capture drives.

thoughts?

 

[dizzie1]

Ever thought about changing the RAID setup to mirrored storage/ backup?

 

[matteusclement]

seeing as I have the external 1TB's doing that with time machine, I feel it's working fine. I use that 1TB time machine for all of my FINAL work and while working on an actual project, I run alot of my stuff off the RAID 0's. So it might look like this:

1tb black - capture disc
1tb black - back up that capture disc
RAID 0 - color & scratch disc

so I am hoping in theory that if any of those drive eat it that I am backed up or have to just re render the project. seeing as most of my projects are 5 mins or les right now, redoing color wouldn't be the end of the world.

But again, I wonder if there is a better way of doing things, like a raid 10?

 

[KeithPratt]

thoughts?

To be honest with you I don't understand any of this...

Five disk types: OS, OS backup, scratch, archive, archive backup.

My scratch is RAID5, and that's enough protection against downtime for me. Footage goes straight onto archive drives. Have the backups in a separate location to the originals. A lot of people will advise you to have a minimum of three copies of any original material, but I play with fire with only two most of the time.

Oh, and are you keeping the ProRes transcodes (as opposed to the originals) and renders when you archive?

 

[matteusclement]

I don't keep the prosres transcodes because I can convert the originals if I realy need them later. BUT, with that being said, i have wanted to start archiving the entire project from FC for about 6 months incase I need to edit something for a client.

so you drop all your scratch stuff (color, AE, FCP) onto a RAID5 and you find the speed to be good enough?

I don't even have an OS back up. Is that bad?

 

[KeithPratt]

I don't keep the prosres transcodes because I can convert the originals if I realy need them later.

That's good. I thought you might be keeping the ProRes unnecessarily.

so you drop all your scratch stuff (color, AE, FCP) onto a RAID5 and you find the speed to be good enough?

Yeah. It's a four-disk set and runs at over 250MB/s.

I don't even have an OS back up. Is that bad?

You know your OS drive is going to die when you're hurrying to finish the biggest project you've done, don't you?

 

[matteusclement]

You know your OS drive is going to die when you're hurrying to finish the biggest project you've done, don't you?[/QUOTE]

Of course. How else would that go down? LOL
Actually when I did my co-op over summer for a large organization, I had everything in quadruple and some how I still stressed about something going wrong.

I will see if I can do raid 5 with my card, but i dont think I can. it's software raid.