Data Storage Question!!
I’m preparing to shoot a movie in a couple weeks, and I need to be able to store up to 8 TB of footage. I’ll be shooting the movie on a bus as it travels long distances. The data needs to be backed up such that I’m positive I won’t lose it.
How can I do this cost-effectively? Should I keep a big hard drive with me on the bus and one back home that I can upload to? Is there a cheap cloud storage service that would be better than this? Is a rattling bus a dangerous place for a hard drive, and would a solid-state drive fare considerably better?
Y’all know more about computers than I do. Please come to my rescue.
In short: How should I store and back up 8 TB of footage while on the road?
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It really depends on how much you want the data to be local, and how much of a deal it would be if it was lost.
If you really want a local option, you can get a bunch of drives (doesn’t matter what kind) and put them in a RAID array, which will copy the data across drives. It doesn’t matter what kind of drives you use because they’re parallelized and the data is duplicated. If you lose one section of the drive (idk the technical name), there’s still 1 or 2 more identical ones. And it’s fast because it can look up data from all the sections at the same time. The big problem is that you’d have to buy more than 8TB of drives (like 16 TB or more). This is the best option overall in my opinion. But it costs a lot and is technical to set up.
The other good option is online storage. Sorry I don’t know a lot about this. Maybe look up what radi8 said.
I can't provide a whole lotta guidance on physical storage at the moment, but for cloud storage, AWS Glacier would be a good option and is incredibly cheap. The only con is that it may take a while to retrieve, but you can look up that.
If you want something super cheap, that can plug right into your PC or laptop. www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-External-Drive-STGY8000400/dp/B07CQJBSQL/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=2T4NVLIZKMRQT&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.gVCs_FLTaqgjQivNGd4yVdxYg8oKMTqzZDfgT0GOArS7G-D0fQeCoYLjdNcDGDdpQ5VtCsZJvtJThFc7lpcY02eibzARu74x-Hj_OywSRqUGdmtQvzSWYOHAn8R0P-u5wYE0fBi3iMAXII5Hib-Xo1UlobbYGUlAN6PwhdF4e8V2rKmamOFWHsoT22dYSh5rUb8fF-05fRlwbUticlPfMksOzNHDnhNCUNAfhbforzw.Xdg1MMrwlLzeUiOxgYB3Q52nzE8OzGjnWO4Ii7Zc9lQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=8%2Btb%2Bhard%2Bdrive&qid=1722005383&sprefix=8%2BTB%2B%2Caps%2C165&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9
If you want to pay more, but have it smaller and more convinienet, buying a few 1.5 TB micro SD cards ($100 each) would be more compact and easy to carry around, but it would be more expensive
I would recommend not getting microsd cards because they aren't the most durable and are also pretty slow