Having heard several completely mangled attempts to explain the benefits of ZFS (reliably believed to be a feature in the next version of OS X) in various places (including on This Week in Media a few weeks back), I feel I should probably take a crack at explaining what it is and, more to the [...]

This blog has been spending a lot of time discussing storage, and will continue to do so. This is, after all, perhaps the largest new workflow challenge with HD, 2K and 4K cameras, for those moving up from the SD world. I’ve already discussed archiving (offline storage) a bit, and I’m planning some posts on [...]

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; [...]