![]() Of course you need a way to attach the drive to the camcorder or rig, adding a bit more weight. There are external SSDs which weigh not much, 50g maybe 100g, I think this is not much weight. I strongly advice against microSD cards because they will get lost. Yes, tapes are still the most economical way to store data long-term, and they have a lifespan of around 30 years. If you’re a digital finisher, you probably have all of the above, plus maybe LTO. If you’re a DIT working on a major motion picture, you might possibly lose your job for not using an actual RAID. If you really want to protect your data while traveling, you can get portable 2-drive RAIDs, with either SSDs or HDDs, but they’ll be at least double the price of their single-disk counterparts. Portable SSDs are faster and more reliable than spinning metal, but they’re more expensive and have lower capacity. No, portable hard drives aren’t as reliable as desktop ones, but they are more. What you should use instead depends on how you intend to use it how long you intend to keep the data, how often you plan to read the data, how quickly you need to read the data, and how much money you’re willing to spend. They’re designed to write data quickly and sequentially, but reading it quickly isn’t a priority, and constant random read/writes would not only be very slow, but would also shorten the card’s lifespan.
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