Re: Archival cost of hard drives

BAH.  I meant to write that a movie is about 17GB because it's 8.3GB/hr.
Obviously, what I did write made no sense...




> This is what I do.
> 
> In my experience on my HiPix, though, a movie is about 17GB/hr because it's
> about 8.3GB/hr.
> 
> I gave up on D-VHS because of all the problems I had on my JVC 30k, which
> were finally resolved by JVC's recall/update but by then I got used to
> storing on HDD.
> 
> Couple of things:
> 
> 1) If the drive dies you lose more than one movie
> 2) It is not the most convenient thing in the world to deal with.
> 3) I'm not really sure that the IDE connectors on drives are intended for
> lots of re-plugs.
> 
> I initially planned to just buy a removable drive system and buy trays for
> each drive, but I could never find one I liked.
> 
> There's a company called Wiebe Tech that makes a neat little FireWire
> adapter just for this sort of purpose, though.  It plugs into the back of a
> bare drive and provides power and a FireWire connection.  I haven't tried it
> but it looks pretty slick.
> 
> At the moment, I just have two 250's in my FireWire 8-drive enclosure and
> use this for all my HiPix recording...  Since I can't really record from
> satellite, it gives me all the storage I need for weeks of saved-up HD, and
> of course I can then stream to my HD1000 with StreamPlayer.
> 
> --Mike
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> At the prospect of being able to archive HD content for future viewing,
>> I was curious what the "cost per movie" would be to just buy extra hard
>> drives and swap them out vs. archiving to DVHS tapes.
>> 
>> You can regularly purchase a 250Gb drive at Fry's for $99->$139
>> depending on the current sale/rebate.
>> 
>> A 2 hour movie at broadcast bitrates would be about 14Gb.
>> At satellite broadcast bitrates, it would be about 8-10Gb.
>> 
>> A 250Gb drive should hold about 16-28 movies, putting the cost at
>> $4->$9 per movie (depending on bitrate and drive size).  That puts it
>> in the same range as DVHS tapes.  Not a bad proposition.  Of course you
>> need an enclosure (Firewire/USB2.0) that you can easily swap the drives
>> in and out of or you have to add the price of an enclosure to each
>> drive.
>> 
>> Just thought that was interesting.
>> 
>> --
>> Steve Martin
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