So work has been a little bit stressful lately. In short, we have about 9 terrabytes of video information. That’s 9,000 gigabytes; or 900,000 megabytes. This information (as of now) is not backed up. It hasn’t been since we started making that content. It’s been 1 year since we started storing that stuff. If we lose just one hard drive we lose over a year of work. That sucks. A lot.

Another problem is that the said hard drives (called striped raid 0 drives) are in the control room with us generating heat. We have already had a power supply failure in one our drives and lost a our work for a week. Luckily we got it back.

We’ve been trying to talk one of the partners into buying a whole new server solution for our computers. This includes new computers for ourselves (with 8 processors each!) and all new software (final cut and adobe stuff). We’ll get the final budget next week and then I’ll write about exactly what we’ll get. It’s just geeky stuff, but it’s important to me. I just don’t want to get my hopes up yet