12/25/2023 0 Comments Silverstack software![]() Some people use colored camera or gaffer's tape for this (for example, red tape applied to cards that have not been backed up and green tape for cards that are OK to format). Others put nothing on the cards themselves, since tape or residue can foul a camera's media bay, and use colored bins on opposite sides of a cart or table for this (i.e. a red bin on the left-hand side and a green bin on the right side). It doesn't matter what system you use, as long as everyone agrees and there is no confusion. Many DITs will bring their own fast storage to set. It can often save time and speed up getting the camera media ready to record again to make an initial (verified) backup to one's own fast, local storage and begin the (often) slower copy to the drives provided by production. I say "often" because it's not unusual, at a certain budget level of production, to be greeted upon one's arrival to set with a plastic bag (often bearing the logo of a big box retail chain that rhymes with "Vest Guy") being handed to you by someone getting paid even less than you. In this bag, you'll often find a couple of hard drives emblazoned with words like green or eco-friendly, both of which are code for low or variable spindle speed, themselves code for slow. ![]() If you ask why these particular drives were purchased, you'll often hear that "they say 'backup' right on them," or "they were the cheapest." Suddenly, having fast interim, or what I call depot, storage doesn't seem like such a bad idea. One option is the range of G-Speed enclosures from G-Technology. Their storage products have been a near-ubiquitous sight on sets for many years. Their G-Speed multi-bay enclosures have always provided rugged, reliable and redundant data storage for productions of all levels and budgets. ![]() Now, with their new G-Speed ShuttleXL enclosures and EV Series bay adapters, the range of tasks these rugged storage appliances can handle has greatly expanded. Using Thunderbolt 3, these flexible enclosures can handle media offloading and backup, footage ingest for post, as well as transform commodity SSDs into a blazingly fast new form of removable media.
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