Massive Editing Storage on a Low Budget
This year, I oversaw the editing process for a large international film production. This involved setting up a collaborative editing facility at the director’s home, and there was a lot… Read more »
Tag Archives: SAS
Data Storage for Video Projects
This topic has come up a lot recently, so it is time for a post dedicated to the basics of data storage for video projects. Storage is the concept of… Read more »
Everything You Need to Know About LTFS
LTO stands for Linear Tape Open, and was initially developed nearly twenty years ago. It records any digital files onto half inch magnetic tapes, stored in square single reel cartridges. … Read more »
Dell Precision 7910 Tower Workstation Review
While I started out my career on Dell Precision Workstations when I was in college, I have spent the last ten years with HP Workstations under my desk. They have… Read more »
6K Editing Hardware and Performance
In setting up the post-production “ecosystem” for 6Below, the first step was to figure out how much storage we would need, to keep all of the 6K footage online. Unlike… Read more »
New HP Workstations Released
I recently had the privilege to attend HP’s press event for the release of their new product lineup, in Ft. Collins CO. I got to see all of their new… Read more »
Post Production Media Storage and Drive Arrays
After my last article explained why USB3 is not ready to be used as the interface for primary media editing drives, this has led to the question of: what interface… Read more »
New Workstation
After much searching and waiting, I finally got myself a new workstation to replace my Precision 670. I now have a maxed out XW8400: Dual 3.0 Ghz 5365 Clovertown Intel Xeon… Read more »
Storage-Hard Drives
There are many different issues that need to be taken into consideration when evaluating data storage options for post-production. Cost is a primary factor to consider, since without that issue,… Read more »
