From the course: Video Data Management on Set and in the Field

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Using near-term storage

Using near-term storage

- Frequently, when editing video, you need high performance hard drives. Perhaps, it's a striped red. Multiple drives in one case, for really fast performance in grade truplet. Or maybe you're using solid state drives. Well, video editing drives can get quite expensive and especially when I say, you have to have three copies of the data. You might see the dollars starting to pile up. You don't actually need three performance copies. It's perfectly fine to have one copy on your performance edit media. However, you can put those other copies on something else. Some folks will use slower USB drives and set them to copy overnight. Or you can use something like drobo, which contains multiple drives in one case. What I like about this solution, is it allows you to stripe those together and get a very large volume. In fact, up to 64tb of data in their current configuration. Well, this is great, it's going to scrub through and validate that data. It's going to be easy to check out, and if…

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