Digital media storage (shirt term/long term)

[bradells]

Do any of you have any media strategies with storage?

I've been looking at getting a small USB3 SSD RAID setup for location footage before getting back home and dealing with it there.

I tend to do 2-4 45-90min dives with either video or photo (or sometimes both) a day.

Typical trips are 4-18 days with 6-30 dives.

Usual footage is RAW 1080/60 or 4K to go down to 1080 and 16mp RAW.

I'm thinking of a 1/2T SSD RAID1 setup would suffice for the moment on most of my trips.

Thoughts?


BRad

 

[descent]

USB3? Yes.
SSD? Yes.
RAID1. Yes, strongly recommended.

If you already did such good research, what do you need our opinions for?

 

[bradells]

USB3? Yes. SSD? Yes. RAID1. Yes, strongly recommended. If you already did such good research, what do you need our opinions for?

To make a sane decision ... Wait, it's SCUBA hahahaha ....


Mainly in the capacity amount.



BRad

 

[victorzamora]

For short term, Raid1 is all you'd need. For long-term "permanent" storage I'd certainly beef that up....think RAID5, ZFS, or RAID-Z. I'm currently using Windows 8's "Storage Spaces" features that I like for flexibility, but it doesn't seem to provide quite as much redundancy as I'd like. I need more research there.

How much is a "usual" day's worth of media for you? How about a "very high" day of usage for you? Have you kinda kept track of it in the past (ballpark works fine here)?