Where are you storing your footage?

So I've been filming for a short 4-5 months or so at this point. And I already have 176gb of footage I'm storing on my laptop.

I can see myself needing 1tb+ of storage pretty quickly once this adds up. It compounds quickly too when your copying footage and editing it into actual video format.....now your storing the same footage in two files.

What are you guys doing to store your footage?

 

I keep my main working footage on a 2nd 1tB internal hard drive on my computer. Then I back that hard drive up continually to a 2tB external USB hard drive. Then a couple times a year, I pull another external hard drive out of my large gun safe and back up everything video and photo wise. That hard drive is kept in the gun/fire safe. I always have 2 to 3 copies of everything.

 

2TB external seagate hard drive. none stored on the computer. 89 bucks.

 

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IF you have the money I would recommend a Synology NAS. Can network them and have disk redundancy.

 

I have a couple USB hard drives that I backup up all of my footage to. Since I record in 4K 100mbps I use a lot of storage. Just the footage I'm submitting from my hunt this year is over 145 gb's.

 

I store mine on a 2TB external drive.


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All of my raw footage is on an internal SSD (OS and apps on their own separate SSD). Then I have another SSD for a scratch disk for my Adobe apps.

I backup locally to a 2TB external and automatically every night to Crashplan. I would like to add a multi-drive enclosure to the mix eventually.

A NAS is also a good option.

 

I just save to a 1tb external hard drive. Also generally I import into iMovie on the MAC as well

 

I currently have everything on my iMac (3TB) with a 3TB WD drive as a full backup of my computer. I'm nearing the full capacity of my iMac and have been looking at different options. I think for now I'm going to get a G-Technology G|RAID system. That'll allow me to offload all my older footage from completed projects and have multiple backups. Then I can keep only current projects on my iMac to keep it's storage free and overall running faster.

 

My footage so far from this fall is over 800GB

 

Well... let's see some of it already

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Ok, sorry, Fitz. I did see it on Todd's elk hunt. I didn't catch the last episode of BHOD, but I hear you have some in there as well.

Just giving you a hard time

 

I do a very similar thing. My primary storage is a 2 TB external drive which I back up to an internal 2 TB drive on my machine at home throughout the year. I use my external drive as primary storage because I'm moving it around between my home, office and giving footage to our editor.

I have given thought to putting a NAS in my home, but just can't bring myself to do it because I'm not sure I would ever really use it.

 

2tb external hard drive


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I have a external hard drive

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I have a handful of external hard drives that i keep multiple copies on.

 

Find a BiG external hard drive is what I would suggest. Seagate makes 4 and 5TB external hard drives which should last a while. At some point, you just have to figure out what footage you want to keep and what you don't.

 

seagate 1tb external hard drive. i dont like keeping all that on my computer slows it up to much