Would you trust your work to a rev drive?

Green Hornet

Green Hornet

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With the need to store our footage, I was wondering if anyone has tried the IOMEGA REV drive?

I know, I know, ....look at how the jaz and zip drives turned out.

I am not familiar with the technology used for the REV DRIVE, but maybe they improved the drives technology so that it is less sensitive to dust that the past systems were destoyed by.

What do you think....
 
After "The clicks of death" from the ZIP Drive, I don't think I'll be trusting Iomega with my data for quite a while.

- Mikko
 
Currently I work with a combination of External Hard Drives and DVD-Rs. And tape for footage archive. But I don't own a camera right now, let alone the HVX so I don't have too much data coming in at the moment.

- Mikko
 
Green Hornet said:
So what are you, or will you be using?
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I plan to record on a FS-100 or a Cineporter (When they come out). For backing up in the field, I will be using an external dual eSATA enclosure with 2 removable 500GB drives set to RAID1 so I have mirrored backup. I will connect the RAID to my Powerbook with an eSATA to PCMCIA adapetr. When the eSATA to Express 34 card comes out, I will use that on my new Mac Book Pro. To archive, I will pull the 2 drives and load 2 more into the enclosure. I have another 2 drive enclosure on my Desktop machine with a 4 port eSATA PCI-X card. I can just plug in my traveling enclosure to have 4 SATA drives to edit from. Counting my dual drive copies for safety, it will cost me about $60/hr to archive DVCPRO-HD footage. I know this sounds high, but the alternative is $38 / hr DVCPRO-HD tapes and a $15K deck.
In 6 months I will shoot about 50 hours of footage costing me $3000 in hard drives for storage. That's only 12 drives so there's plenty of room in the closet. By then I hope that Blu-Ray has matured to 50GB discs and $10 or less per disc. Then I will convert all files to 50GB Blu-Ray data discs and have 12 drives to recycle.
Of course, right now I only have the camera; no P2 cards and no FS-100 (expected in a couple of weeks) so I have no footage to test this theory. I have a report from someone in the Creative Cow forum that someone else is doing exactly this, but recording through the FW 400 port on his Powerbook into the SATA drives on a PCMCIA adapter. I am going to start doing the same until my FS-100 arrives.
 
Green Hornet said:
With the need to store our footage, I was wondering if anyone has tried the IOMEGA REV drive?

I know, I know, ....look at how the jaz and zip drives turned out.

I am not familiar with the technology used for the REV DRIVE, but maybe they improved the drives technology so that it is less sensitive to dust that the past systems were destoyed by.

What do you think....
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Green Hornet, I'm in the same situation as you. I saw the REV drives in HK, and tought it was a good Idea... I too had a problem with a Jazz disk I had. Is the Rev technology something that comes from the Jazz mechanic? If so, I would not recommend it.

However, Iomega clearly uses the word "for long therm archiving" in the REV boxes. The REV disks are also going to be used in the Thomson Camera, so it should be reliable if it is embraced by a company that's going to come out with a professional camera product...

I'll probably give it a try. The disks can record from 30gb up to 90 gb (compressed). I would certainly stay away from compressed, tough.

Here's how I'm planning my archiving and editing workflow:

1- Lacie D2 Big Disk Extreme 500 GB for Editing (Quicktime converted P2 files)

2- Lacie D2 Big Disk extreme 500 gb for Archiving native mxf P2 card dumps, and master DvcproHD quicktime clips (final edited projects)

3- Rev Drive Backup of both MXF Original footage and the master Quicktime dvcpro hd project clips.

What do you think?

Its expensive, I know, and probably 500 gb might not be enough for a long time, but I think this would be an interesting setup...

Today, However, I'm working with 3 Lacie D2 250 gb HDD's, and the Internal Powermac 400gb drive. I'm starting to have speed problems (specially with the Internal drive, since all the converted quicktime files are in there...)
 
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