Rick Darge
12-07-2007, 12:01 AM
I don't know if you guys know about this company or not, someone over at dvxuser turned me on to them a while back. Solid products. I just ordered this for my macbook Pro,
http://firmtek.stores.yahoo.net/sata2ensm2e.html
Checked out newegg and 500GB/SATA harddrives are going for $105 a pop these days.
Figured out some quick math and I'm showing roughly $36 per hour of 4k footage that includes a mirror of your footage on a separate drive. $18/hour if you're playing it risky.
Not bad if you can't afford LTO or other data-taped based archival solutions.
http://firmtek.stores.yahoo.net/sata2ensm2e.html
Checked out newegg and 500GB/SATA harddrives are going for $105 a pop these days.
Figured out some quick math and I'm showing roughly $36 per hour of 4k footage that includes a mirror of your footage on a separate drive. $18/hour if you're playing it risky.
Not bad if you can't afford LTO or other data-taped based archival solutions.