Storage Dilemma Part 3

Storage Dilemma Part 3

Mar 26, 2009
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I have been considering my options and I have made some decisions.

  • I have decided having a Mojo unit to handle my video requirements is mad. Apparently the range of content it supports is limited, on HD rigs you are supposed to have a Sync I/O with it, which I don’t own, so I will be putting my Mojo up for sale on Ebay soon. I then may either buy a Canopus AVDC 110 unit or just continue using the video window on my right hand computer monitor. The other advantage of not having a Mojo is that it won’t tie up my firewire buss and I win back my last PCI slot. If I had kept the Mojo I would have needed to use the last slot for a firewire card.

  • I have also decided to use the internal SATA slots in my Mac Pro as ‘work in progress’ drives rather than Time Machine backup drives as present.

  • I will then use one the Sonnet internal to external SATA adaptor to connect a raid array to my Mac Pro for Time Machine or similar to backup on to.

  • I may well drop using Time Machine to back up my Mac HD and my ‘work in progress’ drives and use something else that will give me a backup drive that can be booted from. Also the backup application I will use for my ‘work in progress’ drives needs to be set up so that when I clear sessions off my ‘work’ drives they get removed from the backup drives automatically, ideally a period of time afterwards.

  • I still have issues to resolve, like what sort of raid array I should use for my short term backup, and what I should do about my long term backups, as currently I don’t charge the clients for this service.

Comments (3):

  1. Chris said:
    March 27, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    i suggest Carbon Copy Cloner for your backup needs. I use it all the time, and it works like a charm. http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

  2. paul said:
    March 27, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    I believe that Pro Tools now supports Decklink cards for various Quicktime movie support. Yesterday, I sat in on a Hollywood film mix using the Decklink Extreme HD card. It was projected on a large screen and looked great.

  3. Mike Thornton said:
    March 28, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    Chris,Thanks for this idea, I have it as it is my preferred application for cloning drives but I will look at its backup features.Paul, Yes you are correct that the Decklink Extreme card is approved but for me and the number of times I need video out it would not be a cost effective solution and also it would take up my remaining PCI slot.Thank you both for your thoughts.Mike.

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