[MacDV] Storage

[Gordon Alley]

I watch for specials on bare terabyte drives, and have purchased them for
less than $80 (macsales.com). I use a universal adapter to mount them on my
Macs when I need to access them. I'm keeping two sets of drives to backup of
my video projects.

-Gordon

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Patty Winter <patty1 at sonic.net> wrote:

> With terabyte hard drives now available for $100-200 (last time I
> considered this project, they were around $1,000!), I'm thinking
> again of a major VHS conversion project that would start with about
> 100 hours of tapes. I figure that once the files are edited down
> to about 45 mins. each, I can export uncompressed QuickTime from
> iMovie and it will all fit on a terabyte drive.
>
> Is uncompressed QT a format that should have a decent shelf-life?
> I realize that it's been around for a long time now, and AFAIK is
> not likely to disappear any time soon, but when I first thought of
> this project, DVDs seemed like a sure bet, too, and now those are
> starting to face extinction. (Although not right away.) However,
> I would think that any compression format would be in even greater
> danger of obsolescence than uncompressed QT, so that probably is
> still my best bet, yes?
>
> BTW, Jeanette, I also use a Canopus A/D converter between my VHS
> machine and my Mac. It does what it's supposed to with no muss,
> no fuss.
>
>
> Patty
>
> --
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