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RAID! A high-speed, high-capacity storage primer
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01/23/2007 05:48 PM
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DV By Terence Keegan
Where would the HD revolution be without affordable digital storage? No matter what flavor of HD you're shooting, editing, massaging, or playing out to air, you need big hard drives to hold all that high-def footage. If you're working with material that's longer than a few minutes, a big hard drive will likely translate to lots of hard drives bundled together into a storage system known as a RAID. First conceived in 1987 as a redundant array of inexpensive disks and later renamed redundant array of independent disks, RAID storage systems have become an indispensable component of data-intensive workflows such as the aforementioned HD shooting, editing, massaging, and play out. Thanks to RAID, editors can power through hi-def video streams, multiple users can collaborate on projects simultaneously, and facilities can avoid production meltdowns in the near-inevitable event of hard drive failure.
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