Rev Pro.... Possible Archive method

[kbainter]

Hey guys, I am on the canopus boards a lot being an edius user as well and saw this new device called REV PRO.

http://www.canopus.com/contentfiles/products/nlemedia/gv_revpro_ds_q2_2006.pdf

It is very robust and I think you could edit straight off of it if need be...

But this is a great alternative to flakey hard drives. It says that these could archive for up to 30 years! I know it' sonly 35 gb right now, but that's not to bad. That's almost 10 4gig p2 dumps.

I could see taking this into the field rather than firewire HD's which are delicate and once again "flakey".

What do you guys think of this?

 

[Green Hornet]

My question would be, Is the Rev Pro something different than The Rev drive by Iomega, or is it the same thing, just sold by Grass Valey?

I have to get something soon for storage, as DVD's are just too small, and take too many to be practicle. I am using 8 gig cards, and that also is a problem when working with dvd.

I might just get one of these for temporary storage untill hd-dvd is more widely available and at a lower cost.

 

[cinemakinoeye]

Rev vs. Rev Pro

Rev vs. Rev Pro

Is the Rev Pro something different than The Rev drive by Iomega, or is it the same thing, just sold by Grass Valey?

According to John Naylor, Director of Grass Valley’s Infinity Camcorder Program, "You can just use a standard REV disk to record, what’s different about REVPro is that you can get two sustained streams in either direction off the drive [with] a guaranteed quality of service of 55 Mbit/sec per stream," so my understanding is they have enhanced the technology for better I/O performance, but the media is the same. If anyone knows differently, please let me know. By the way, if you're interested in more context, I posted a transcript of my conversation with John Naylor on my blog.