Time for Another Hard Drive?!?

I'm old enough to remember 5 1/2" floppy disks. High Density floppies. SyQuest disks. The venerable Zip disk. Jaz disks.

All of these great strides in storage promised the same thing: inexpensive storage for your ever-growing media collection. None of them addressed the common problem: your ever-growing media collection will have increasingly larger file sizes!

My first FireWire drive was a whopping 160GB. That was huge when my machine was a 15" iMac G3 with a paltry 10GB hard drive. I had plenty of room to spare.

Not anymore, though. Things have changed. The next FireWire drive that I got was 500GB. That's half a terrabyte. I have about 40GB left on it. Filming PARALLAX took at least 100GB, so I'm fresh out of room.

I'm headed to pick up another FireWire drive today. I have two tapes' of footage to transfer and 40GB just won't do.

At the rate I'm going now, this grand hobby of filmmaking is going to require some rack mounted servers or RAIDs. And that's only with me filming shorts, not features!

Blessings,
Scott Hampton

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