Storage System / Data Bank - Recommendations

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Sloth_Boy

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Hi all,

Im in the video industry and do alot of editing, and the professional way is to keep all the video you ever captured for clients on disk, therefore if the client ever comes back to you, or wipes there orignal tapes, you have the captured video right on disk. Well, i need a storage bank.

So, my plan is this, im going to buy a switch to allow me to use the same keyboard,mouse and monitor for my editing machine and my storage machine. I just need help with selecting components for my storage machine.

I would want aleast 4 x 400GB WD (16mb) drives (like this one, with room for atleast another 4, so a case and mobo that can support 8 3.5" hard drives without needing external enclosures.

So, could anyone help me find a motherboard, case.etc that can support this. Also, any other info i should know would be great....

Cheers!!!

(im from australia so if you can, look through australian websites, go www.google.com.au and do aussie search only).
 
You're probably better off getting DVD's and burning their video to DVD. That way you can move it offsite, and you don't have a finite amount of space.
 
DVD's just dont hold enough data, a single layer dvd only holds 4.5gb, that only 20minutes of raw captured .avi footage. Im talking about alot of data here, like over 100hours of dv video.

(1 hour = 13.5gb, 13.5 x 100 = 1350GB), so, that case mentioned above, with 5.25 - 3.5" converter, ill be able to get in 15 drives, say each drive is 400Gb, thats over 6Tb, that sounds good... lol, a system would be able to handle that amount of data ay. Now, whats the best motherboard for the job, oh and either amd or intel is fine, which ever is best at burning, managing hardrives, general operating system stuff (probably amd?).

Anyway, furhter help would be good, thanks
 
If you're looking at capacities in the TB and higher range, you're probably going to need a SAN, with a dedicated admin. And that costs money. Lots of it.
 
You probably want to look into an 8-16 channel raid controller ($170-$600+ usd). If that data is important enough to build a dedicated box, it is probably important enough to protect via a raid5.

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I would also reconsider buckus' first suggestion. Since everyone should perform backups anyway, you could consolidate each clients footage onto dvd 'sets'. Also DL disks would reduce the quantity needed.
 
What is raid 5, is that were it duplicates data?

Basically, the data on the machine wont be super important, i'll mainly use the machine for a bit of editing using premiere pro 1.5 and possibly duplications and ofcourse, mass storage.

So yeah, ill be running windows on it i guess. So really, can you guys just compile a few different systems or something for me at newegg? So i can have a look at your suggestions. The case mentioned above is a nice one and seems highly suitable.
 
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