New PDF: Archiving for Indies

[Torrey Loomis]

Folks,

We just published a new doc: "Archiving for Indies: Creating Long-Term Archives for Independent Digital Cinema"

Covers RAID and LTO-5 technology along with hard costs for real archives.

You can get it free at http://bit.ly/aVMG23

Torrey
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Torrey Loomis
President & CEO - Silverado Systems, Inc.
(916) 760-0032 • FAX (916) 404-5258
torrey@silverado.cc
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[Steve Sherrick]

Thanks Torrey!

By the way, hope things are ok outside the Reduser world.

 

[Curran Giddens]

"Pay with a Tweet" is a great idea for something like this. Thanks Torrey!

I saw it on your Twitter feed and downloaded it a few days ago. Some great info in there.

Still have that Cache-A unit near the top of my list...

 

[Torrey Loomis]

By the way, hope things are ok outside the Reduser world.

Steve,

Thanks much for that. Things are stable and holding steady for now.

Sometimes I wish that entrepreneurs would enter medical research the same way that Jim entered imaging: relentlessly pushing the envelope for something better than the status quo.

Tor

 

[Martin Weiss]

Thanks, Torrey for doing this.

Am I right that I cannot read LTO-3A written tapes on an LTO-5 drive? Is there such a thing as an LTO-5A drive that could read an LTO-3A?

 

[Torrey Loomis]

Am I right that I cannot read LTO-3A written tapes on an LTO-5 drive?

Martin,

This functionality would belong in the realm of Cache-A. Their drives are supposed to have read-back to LTO-3A. However, I am not sure if that has been enabled by firmware yet.

I think it has been superseded by this process:

http://cache-a.com/ftpcommon/CATechBrief-QuantumXfr.pdf

Torrey
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Torrey Loomis
President & CEO - Silverado Systems, Inc.
(916) 760-0032 • FAX (916) 404-5258
torrey@silverado.cc
Web http://www.Silverado.cc
Blog http://silveradosys.blogspot.com
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/silveradosys

Build your own RED Rocket system: http://bit.ly/7F4QA1

 

[David Birdy]

Thanks for posting Torrey!

It's very helpful!

Dave

 

[Torrey Loomis]

Thanks for posting Torrey!

DB,

We'll have more coming soon. Next one will detail more of the "business" of providing LTO backup to clientele.

Torrey
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Torrey Loomis
President & CEO - Silverado Systems, Inc.
(916) 760-0032 • FAX (916) 404-5258
torrey@silverado.cc
Web http://www.Silverado.cc
Blog http://silveradosys.blogspot.com
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/silveradosys

Build your own RED Rocket system: http://bit.ly/7F4QA1

 

[Richard Foster]

Thanks Torrey for making such valuable info available. I am very impressed as a newbie with the depth of info at reduser.net and the excellent sharing spirit.

 

[James Press]

Thanks Torrey. Excellent read, very accessible, great update on the state-of-play. Much appreciated.