Servers

[Casey Stein]

Funny question worth asking here.

One of my mainstay clients that I make videos for all the time needs help organizing and managing all their video content on servers and cloud storage, but the main gist is finding someone to come in and help figure out the solution so it's fool-proof. They need to prep for the future, so we're talking about 200tb + of stuff that can be accessed from the office or remotely.

Anybody here have any leads in something like this?

 

[Simon Dunne]

Where are you based Casey? Where is your client?

 

[dino g]

amazon glacier

 

[Kwan Khan]

Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost storage service (one with the best cost benefit).

 

[Mat_G]

If cost is an issue:
Box.com... business account works great. Unlimited data storage, no per gb, per file fees, etc. They have a 3 user minimum @15 per (so $45 per month). R3D files are under the 5gb individual file size limit. Keep in mind ProRes files over 5gb (or any file) will give you an error message. I only do 1 way uploading via WebDav client (or sometimes the web browser as this circumvents the 50k API requests limit. The API limit is more for folks using the 2 way auto sync). The 2 way bi-directional file sync I find to be a bit dangerous. 200tb of initial uploading would be daunting though in terms of time.

If cost is not an issue and time is an issue - :thumbsup:Amazon Snowball
They ship you a secure mega RAID. You copy your data, ship it back, they load data to AWS... and voila... on the cloud.https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aw...r-week-using-amazon-owned-storage-appliances/

 

[Rudy Lehfeldt-Ehlinger]

Amazon Glacier is not good for accessible... think of Glacier like slow expensive LTO.... It all depends on how your client defines access... if they want to be able to play clips over the net out of said database things get a lot more complicated, if they just need to see metadata and a few frames simpler....

Most hosted systems are going to have issues, either with the populating of them or the DB side because that size of data set you are going to need some type of DB to manage.

box has, last I checked, file size limits... Google Drive is what we are currently using for hosted files and shuttles... but at least for us hosting our 600tb of data to be reliably remotely viewed was out of the budget...