Memory controllers, PCIe lanes, different video encoding and decoding blocks can affect size and most importantly, the Series S has an external south bridge / chipset, which I’m sure saves some die space on the main SoC.
Memory controllers, PCIe lanes, different video encoding and decoding blocks can affect size and most importantly, the Series S has an external south bridge / chipset, which I’m sure saves some die space on the main SoC.
If you allow some self-promotion:
Have a look on ebay, there are some good deals to be had. You could probably get an LTO-5 for around $150-200, although you’ll need a SAS controller and cabling, which could add an extra $50. So the initial cost is definitely higher, but once you’re past that, it’s much nicer to have large 1.5-2.5TB tapes than lots of discs.
If you’re hoarding that much data and you need cold storage, you may want to have a look at tapes. LTO-5 and LTO-6 drives are quite cheap to come by and tapes are less expensive than discs on a per-GB basis.
setting up a pfSense router is cool.
you can use docker to run some local services and give them their own domain names with pfsense
if you want to progress further, you can use traefik to give docker/kubernetes services hostnames and get a cloudflare certificate to enable https on everything
Just wanted to say thank you for all. I’m set up with Logitech Media Server and couldn’t be happier. The fact that it has a Truecharts app on TrueNAS Scale is just the icing on the cake.
You need ot think about how often you need to access the data. If it’s once or twice a year, then the added overhead of having to find and load a tape wouldn’t add up that quickly and IMO should be acceptable.
However, for projects you currently work on, you’d want hard drives and/or SSDs, preferably on a network, I suppose. Unless all your in0flight footage resides on the computers you edit them on (in which case I hope they have redundant storage).
Also, if any of your clients needed some archived data, would it be feasible to come back to the tapes, read, upload and share them? If you had a NAS and a fast enough internet connection, you may be able to host a site yourself, thus no need for reading the tape and uploading to a cloud.
Also, if it’s video footage, then you shouldn’t really count on LTO’s compression ability. It’s not particularly good for pictures and videos.