Join Kevin Ames as he dives into the hard drive, why it fails, and the steps that creative professionals can take to protect themselves from data loss.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What is in a hard drive?
- Factors that can hurt a drive
- The dangers of hard drives on a shelf
- Obsolescence
- Mac
- Windows
- Cross-platform formats
- What is a RAID?
- RAID 0 is for speed, not storage
- RAID 1: Mirror, mirror
- RAID 5: Protected storage
- Proprietary RAIDs (Synology and Drobo)
- Metadata vs. folders
- Folder structure approaches
- Keeping it simple
- Letting the computer sort it all out
- What is a digital asset manager (DAM)?
- Catalogs are databases
- Using a file browser
- Naming conventions
- Megabits vs. megabytes
- Current connections
- Legacy connections
- What is a backup?
- Backup vs. protected storage
- How many copies of a backup?
- How often to backup
- Local storage
- Offsite storage
- 3-2-1 backup
- Long-term backups
- Migration
- Next steps
Taught by
Kevin Ames
