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Mark W · #2 (**permalink**) 12-04-2007, 09:30 PM

When I started I kept very little, only finished films really, no edit files or raw footage.
It was all in one directory on a drive.
Then an old small drive with all my sounds failed, this made me scared....

Since that happened the price of drives and plummeted so the hard drive is now my archive of choice.

I struggle with maintaining a disciplined system, but this is what i aim to do now.

Most of my projects are quite small and i try not to shoot miles of tape when filming.

All raw video and edit files, sounds, pics, test renders all go in one folder for each project on one big pc drive.

A copy of this is made every few days to another internal drive.

When a project is finished the done film only is archived on one internal drive, I then clean up the project file (remove rough renders) and save it with all raw footage to a removable hard drive.

This is not fail safe and not the end of the road for me when it somes to security and peace of mind.

With my next pc I want things safer and less messy, this is the plan;

1) Inside the PC - 2 1Tb drives in RAID 1 configuration for media only.
2) Removable hard drive caddy for archiving finished stuff.
3) Automated back up software.

I dont and wont keep raw tapes cos I am crap at having a system - I prefer to keep raw footage on discs.

I am no teccy expert and supect there are smoother soloutions. I suspect raid 5 box may be better but I have no expirience if raid and would be intereste to hear from those who have.