So I run a small production company and when it came time to evacuate, I found myself with the pictured pile of drives and RAIDS to throw in the car... It's A LOT!
For years, I've been wanting to consolidate and pare everything down to just the essential and master files to keep and store properly. I don't have the cash to buy anything new like a NAS so the challenge would be to use what I have. As you can see, I have 3 Promise Pegasus RAIDS. I'm thinking I can use one (or more) of those as a DAN. Here are some questions/thoughts:
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Does any one have advice on keeping or deleting RAW camera media? This takes up the lion's share of data and would love to dump it, but FEAR a distant client will want it the minute I delete it.
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Is there a place to sell/donate all the drives that will be emptied? Like 50 of them.
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Would love to work off this DAS as well.
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What is the best RAID config to allow performance for editing but also keep redundant? I've been seeing RAID 5 or 6?
Sorry if this seems all over the place, basically, I'm looking for advice on how to pare down unneeded data, redundantly store and use the data I need, and what to do with all the extra drives I theoretically will have as a result!
Thanks fellow hoarders!