Why not Blu-ray...?

[DavidBeier]

I think optical is great for backup. It's cheap and theoretically lasts quite a while (I do my best not to scratch these things and there are ways to repair them afte scratches).

For out of camera however, I think I'd want something a lot less fragile. Swapping DVDs or Blue Rays while in the middle of a hectic shoot just seems a recipe for disaster. Not to mention that the bandwith limit is going to be a real pain.

 

[Can Scanner]

Sarah, what brand of hard drives died on you?

 

[sarah staar]

most makes , the last drives were maxtor. We have about 20 hard drives and on average about 2 a year go down.
I had a Hitachi hard drive go down 2 months ago it was only a week old !!

I find the cooler they run the longer they last. I would like to invest in a cheep rack mount raid 5 setup. anyone know of a good one??

 

[THoff]

I find the cooler they run the longer they last. I would like to invest in a cheep rack mount raid 5 setup. anyone know of a good one??

I have no first-hand experience with this thing, but I bookmarked the article when I read it -- sounds like this might do what you want:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2018300,00.asp