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Cake day: October 21st, 2023

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  • You need ot think about how often you need to access the data. If it’s once or twice a year, then the added overhead of having to find and load a tape wouldn’t add up that quickly and IMO should be acceptable.

    However, for projects you currently work on, you’d want hard drives and/or SSDs, preferably on a network, I suppose. Unless all your in0flight footage resides on the computers you edit them on (in which case I hope they have redundant storage).

    Also, if any of your clients needed some archived data, would it be feasible to come back to the tapes, read, upload and share them? If you had a NAS and a fast enough internet connection, you may be able to host a site yourself, thus no need for reading the tape and uploading to a cloud.

    Also, if it’s video footage, then you shouldn’t really count on LTO’s compression ability. It’s not particularly good for pictures and videos.












  • I tend to see 10G SFP+ modules for under $10, LCLC fibre cables are the same for ~10m lenghts and a NIC is, as you said, around $30. So fibre is cheap, but you can also occasionally find Aquantia-based 10GBASE-T (RJ-45) NICs which can do NBASE-T (2.5G and 5G) for $35, which is a good price, considering that these are generally more efficient than the older Intel chipsets and are just as fast.

    That aside, your plan sounds good, I hope it’ll work out well for you. USB3 adapters are also viable for 2.5G, so you can easily connect laptops and mini PCs that don’t necessarily have extra thunderbolt or PCIe connectivity for a 10G NIC. What I suggest you avoid is the 5G USB3-based NICs, because in reality, they can only do around 3.5G and they also run much hotter and are significantly more expensive than the 2.5G variants.