There is nothing worse than holding up an entire production waiting for data transfer from camera cards. A single spinning disk hard drive will only give you sustained read/write speeds of up to 80MB/sec. Camera media is of course very fast, but if you use cheap, slow external hard drives over a slow interface, it makes offloading camera cards a lot slower than it should be. On set time is critical, and the faster you can offload (ideally to duplicate drives simultaneously), verify and turnaround camera cards, the better. Transfer Speed On SetĪt this point, I will mention one often overlooked aspect of on-set data workflow when selecting external hard drives. Ideally, one set of duplicated camera media should be kept off site, at a production office, your post facility, or even just at home. Whatever your particular data-wrangling workflow may be, it’s important to always maintain duplicates at every stage of the workflow. On larger productions, your DIT may also use much larger direct-attached RAID arrays on location. Small bus-powered external SSD drives, or hard drives are often used on set to offload camera cards daily, and may then be used to shuttle camera media to larger storage or shared storage on or off-site. It’s critically important that you always keep more than one copy of your original camera media. Many other types of temporary files can be recreated, such as NLE cache files, and even transcoded media. Project files are typically small and can easily be backed up, even to the cloud. This starts when offloading camera cards on set, and continues to the storage you are using for post-production. Always duplicate your data onto at least two separate physical drives. I’m not touching on NAS or networking in this post.
This article will cover direct-attached external drives, desktop RAID arrays, and internal RAID arrays. I’ve compiled this guide to help you navigate the media storage landscape armed with some basic knowledge. Mistakes can be costly when your data is at risk. When it comes to hard drives and storage, it’s easy to be overwhelmed. This guide should help you to optimize for performance, redundancy and security. keyboard_arrow_rightCameras of the Year.keyboard_arrow_rightGear Guides by Budget.keyboard_arrow_rightGear Guides by Type.
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