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Quick Solution for noisy disk drives (that disturb your sound mixing mindspace)

andyharris — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:23:45 +0000

I find myself temporarily displaced from my study. I've got minimal kit set up in my living room, and I found that my raid arrays have some physical vibration that goes through the desk/table and makes editing and mixing sound a PITA.

I've tried several designs, but came up with these as simple pucks to decouple the boxes from the desk:

Basically the web is printed in TPU/TPE and the thickness controls the compliance - thicker for heavier boxes.

The ring is printed in anything - PLA/PETG or whatever you have around.

Regards

Andy

My current workflow, lightly optimised to reduce RAID disk space

andyharris — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:40:13 +0000

Here's my current workflow, I believe its real weakness is knowing what files can be removed when a project ages out, or when more space is needed.

The other key issue is not copying the original footage to disk, since my SSDs are re-used on a regular basis. This makes grading a one shot process (well until the SSDs are needed again). Obviously money could improve this workflow, but then there would be no profit!

Thoughts welcomed:

Petabyte sized laser disks

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:35:01 +0000

In Nature Communications today, Richard Evans from CSIRO shows how they developed a new technique to enable the data capacity of a single DVD to increase from 4.7 gigabytes up to one petabyte (1,000 terabytes). This is equivalent of 10.6 years of compressed high-definition video or 50,000 full high-definition movies.

So how did they manage to achieve such a huge boost in data storage?