We’re still here, we’ve just been rather busy. Regular updates should start again… about now.

See major new features and menu map. Camera owners can, of course, get it in the usual place.

The biggest enhancements are related to image quality. Red appears to have rather dramatically reduced compression artifacts and noise levels. 16:9 4K is also [...]

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 [...]

This post is a continuation of the previous post on cheap, reliable, manageable storage.

How do you create a volume across multiple drives that makes use of distributed parity (see previous post) without shelling out big money for an enterprise storage system? Windows XP Pro have built-in software RAID 5 support, which which will do nicely. [...]

This is a followup to a previous post, in which I laid out the principles of how storage should be managed. This post will be the first of two which goes into detail about hardware, software, and how to set everything up.

If you’re not already familiar with RAID, go read the Wikipedia entry, although this [...]

This post is a follow-up to a post from a couple of weeks ago, “How not to store data“, in which I admonished against the all-too-common practice at small production facilities of stashing data on lots of external hard drives with no coherent management plan.

The single most important characteristic of a storage system is reliability. [...]