Perhaps the most interesting thing about Red’s recent price list is the range of solid state recording options — CF, ExpressCard, 1.8″ SATA flash, and Red RAM. The Red RAM is basically a Red Drive, but with two of the new 32 GB flash-based drives, instead of two 160 GB mechanical drives. It’s the three [...]

Having basically ruled out optical storage, we’re left with two major archiving options: data tape and hard drives.

The leading high-end data tape format is LTO-3. Drives are available from many vendors, and you can expect to pay upwards of $3500. Tapes are 400 GB, and cost around $55 if you shop around, though you have [...]

The RED ONE is clearly going to generate a very large amount of data, even using REDCODE compression. At the 28 MB/s rate quoted for 4K, a minute of footage will be about 1.65 GB.

How do you deal with all of this data? This will be the first in a series of posts discussing archiving; [...]