Data Storage (USB/Fireware/NAT ?)

[thunderous71]

Hi all.

I have started to accumulate a lot of video from rides etc and I am one of thous people that find it real hard to erase footage. But the amount is now starting to clog up my drives.

Has anyone got any experience with network hard drives like
http://www.freecom.com/Products/Externa ... k-Drive-XS

Can you edit film from the drive over the home network (1gig) without too much lag or do you syill have to copy the source onto the main PC before editing?

Any experience?

 

[Nerb]

Cant really answer your question, but 100 euro for 500mb... is there a reason you cant put another drive in your pc? I use internal drives through a drive dock which connects to the pc with esata. You can easily work off them and then you can buy normal 75euro 3Tb drives.

 

[Chris033081]

As far as network storage goes you can have a couple different options. NAS, USB External HDD, and Router connected external HDD. NAS devices are becoming readily more available and inexpensive, but still more than the cost of an External USB drive. USB ext. HDD are getting cheaper and cheaper. TigerDirect.com just had a special on 3TB USB3.0 drives for $109 US and a $10 rebate. If your network router has a USB connection on the back, it may support External HDD connections that can be shared throughout the network like a NAS.

Wireless speeds are usually about half of the advertised speed because they are combining the send/receive speeds. If you are connected at 300 Mbps, that means you have a maximum burst of 150 in and 150 out with a realistic transfer speed of 75 Mbps. A USB 3.0 connection is significantly faster clocking in around 120Mbps. If you are hardline connected to a NAS then you will likely reach the maximum performance from the disk and that will be the bottle neck.

Companies world wide use remote storage through the network for video production, editing, and such. Their systems maybe uber expensive, but that is because they are serving more client connections. You on the other hand should not have a problem, provided the equipment is decent.

Your best bet is likely to save the videos to whatever you like, have the video file you are editing on your computer, compile it, save it, and then move it to the backup drive after uploading it.

 

[thunderous71]

Your best bet is likely to save the videos to whatever you like, have the video file you are editing on your computer, compile it, save it, and then move it to the backup drive after uploading it.

Cheers Chris that's what I was thinking may be the option, and yea I'm looking at at network drive straight to the router that is then shared through the house via the electric plug sockets (piggybacking). But I was hoping to be able to edit directly from the drive rather than copy across as I use snippets from many clips.

As for

Cant really answer your question, but 100 euro for 500mb... is there a reason you cant put another drive in your pc? I use internal drives through a drive dock which connects to the pc with esata. You can easily work off them and then you can buy normal 75euro 3Tb drives.

Yea that is an option but there is also a second reason for getting a network drive, that's to make it act as a media center for movies and music etc etc.

 

[13DollarRefill]

This is my editing setup, photo, video backup (all of the above) storage

1 x 27" iMac with a internal 1TB HDD
1 x 1TB External HDD Western Digital Drive connected via USB
1 x 2TB External HDD Western Digital My Book connected via Fire-wire
1 x 3TB External HDD Western Digital My Book daisy chained to the 2TB drive, which that connects to the iMac (iMac only has one firewire port)

Now speed wise for me the fire-wire is the fastest option I have at the moment because my iMac is about 3 years old now. The iMacs and Macbook Pro with thunderbolt ports now are the quickest port/connection available to the consumer market. (check out thunderbolt test videos on YouTube about speed performance) I believe some PC's come with thunderbolt (don't quote me, massive apple fan boy)

I edit directly off the external HDD connected via fire-wire, and I'm happy with the speeds, yeh there is always room for improvement, but at the moment I'm limited because of my out-dated iMac. Once I upgrade my iMac I will then purchase a SSD or a thunderbolt drive and connect via thunderbolt and drag any editing files across to that.

Speaking of SSD, ever thought about popping one of them into your computer internally?