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<blockquote data-quote="Oceanwatcher" data-source="post: 146655" data-attributes="member: 49852">I work in the TV and film business (tech stuff and creative stuff) and thought I would share a couple of tips about storage that I have learnt while working with really big files and systems.When you are looking for a harddrive today, you have to consider how you are going to use it. If it will just be a few hours now and then, any drive will do. But if you want the system to stay on 24-7 then you need to choose carefully.The drive model that is used a lot now is Seagate Barracuda ES series. If you are going to run a server, you need to use something like this.Also, when you have a lot of digital pictures, music and videos, you need some kind of security. Burning to CD and DVD is not secure enough, only if it is used together with something else. If you use cheap media for burning, it can become unreadable in less than a year. Not good!One solution is to have a RAID in your server. And then you need to find a good RAID controller. My recommendation here is to use a SATA controller from 3ware. They are top performing controllers and the only one I would even think about using for something like this. Yes, they cost more than competing brands, but they give you peace of mind...Just wanted to share this. Hope someone finds it useful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oceanwatcher, post: 146655, member: 49852"] I work in the TV and film business (tech stuff and creative stuff) and thought I would share a couple of tips about storage that I have learnt while working with really big files and systems. When you are looking for a harddrive today, you have to consider how you are going to use it. If it will just be a few hours now and then, any drive will do. But if you want the system to stay on 24-7 then you need to choose carefully. The drive model that is used a lot now is Seagate Barracuda ES series. If you are going to run a server, you need to use something like this. Also, when you have a lot of digital pictures, music and videos, you need some kind of security. Burning to CD and DVD is not secure enough, only if it is used together with something else. If you use cheap media for burning, it can become unreadable in less than a year. Not good! One solution is to have a RAID in your server. And then you need to find a good RAID controller. My recommendation here is to use a SATA controller from 3ware. They are top performing controllers and the only one I would even think about using for something like this. Yes, they cost more than competing brands, but they give you peace of mind... Just wanted to share this. Hope someone finds it useful. [/QUOTE]

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