File Management - What Does Yours Look Like?

Looks like my setup might be a little more complex than most, but I'm also a computer geek.

Everything from my cameras get dumped on my main machine, which is then separated between my video SSD and my video HDD.

The SSD is for active video edits. This makes things run very fast, however that drive is only 120G so I can't keep much on it.

Video files for later use go on the HDD in folder schemes that make sense to me.

In addition, everything is backed up onto my NAS. I have 2 1TB drives in a RAID1 configuration using freeNAS. Once I finish with an edit it's backed up onto the server and removed from the main machine.

This is all in an effort to never loose anything while not having to spend my life savings on hard drives.
 
aphire said:
Is this all automated or do you move everything around yourself?
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Right now it's all manual. I am in the habit of as soon as the camera is connected I do my moves and copies right away so nothing gets missed.

In the future when I have some time (haha) I'd like to setup automatic backups with the NAS.
 
BurntRuber said:
I don't even understand what half of you guys are talking about. I'm not smart with computers at all.
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All this means is that I have two computers. One is similar to yours in the way it operates. Inside I have multiple hard drives inside one is for speed and one is for storage.

A NAS stands for Network Attached Storage. This is another computer, but it's entire job is to receive and send files as well as store them securely. You don't sit in front of this machine you access it remotely from your primary computer.

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. There are a handful of different RAID configurations. RAID 1 means that I have mirrored data across multiple drives. So in my case I have 2 hard drives with mirror copies of the data. Which means that if one hard drive fails I will have a backup and not loose any information. This is all done automatically for me via the operating system FreeNAS.

Hope this gives you a general idea. As you acquire more and more videos and pictures for your channel you might want to consider reading up on this stuff. I use it not only for mass storage of my video files but I also use it as a backup for all the other stuff on my computer that I don't want to loose.
 
I wouldn't be able to figure that stuff out. I just throw all my stuff on a external hard drive and pull it off when I'm ready to edit it and keep the copies of the raw footage after I'm done on the external.
 
JonJeoprdy said:
All this means is that I have two computers. One is similar to yours in the way it operates. Inside I have multiple hard drives inside one is for speed and one is for storage.

A NAS stands for Network Attached Storage. This is another computer, but it's entire job is to receive and send files as well as store them securely. You don't sit in front of this machine you access it remotely from your primary computer.

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. There are a handful of different RAID configurations. RAID 1 means that I have mirrored data across multiple drives. So in my case I have 2 hard drives with mirror copies of the data. Which means that if one hard drive fails I will have a backup and not loose any information. This is all done automatically for me via the operating system FreeNAS.

Hope this gives you a general idea. As you acquire more and more videos and pictures for your channel you might want to consider reading up on this stuff. I use it not only for mass storage of my video files but I also use it as a backup for all the other stuff on my computer that I don't want to loose.
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I was going to build a NAS a while ago before all the motovlogs... I was going to use a udoo board (like a raspberry pi but faster chipset and a sata port) then attach a SSD.. what do you reckon? As it was literally next to nothing power consumption
 
RoadSprock said:
I was going to build a NAS a while ago before all the motovlogs... I was going to use a udoo board (like a raspberry pi but faster chipset and a sata port) then attach a SSD.. what do you reckon? As it was literally next to nothing power consumption
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I had a friend who did something very similar to this. He used a ras pi and created a server with it using b-tree. It worked pretty well I think all tolled from the wall it only drew something like 4W or 5W. Pretty cool system.

Depending on your usage I'm not sure an SSD would make sense unless you're going for just speed. HDD's are still a lot cheaper in the bigger capacities needed for servers. If you do try it let us know how it goes!
 
JonJeoprdy said:
I had a friend who did something very similar to this. He used a ras pi and created a server with it using b-tree. It worked pretty well I think all tolled from the wall it only drew something like 4W or 5W. Pretty cool system.

Depending on your usage I'm not sure an SSD would make sense unless you're going for just speed. HDD's are still a lot cheaper in the bigger capacities needed for servers. If you do try it let us know how it goes!
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Yeah, the problem was back then udoo boards were back ordered for a long time and put off sale as they couldn't deal with the volume. I was going for the SSD for transfer speeds and I'd be storing it in my loft, so if I knock it moving stuff around there at a later date I wouldn't do much damage ;)
 
I keep a YouTube folder. The main folder has my sound effects and other things i use in my videos. Then i have a motovlog folder that has separate folders for my new footage and my vlogs.
 
Man I'm jealous of some of the setups mentioned. I keep it simple and have several 2TB external HD's that I use to store raw video, completed edits and all the various components that go into my gamified videos. Granted I only have one video to my name I have hours and hours of video to go through. It really makes you hate your own voice, but i'm not good at remembering to click the camera on and off and I usually miss items that I won't when I don't record straight through.
 
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