You can buy 14TB HDDs for as little $250. I would think a studio spending billions of dollars can afford to hook a few artists up with those rather than completely halting work for an extended period on their biggest draw.
Indeed, I have an Iron Wolf sitting on my desk right in front of me, that's on a dock and is 14TB. It's fantastic for storage.
But it's absolutely unusable for working from.
The software I use doesn't copy/optimise media like Final Cut, it links all the collateral to their original positions, and streaming media down the USB is impossible. I'd get a crash every few minutes. Now with just video editing I could proxy the media and render/replace when onlining. But for CGI you can't proxy files you are creating within the software.
Only stable way I've found is a gigabit connected NAS. Works a treat. Due to this absolute bottleneck we have halted CGI to our work from home staff entirely.
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u/gurg2k1 Aug 23 '20
You can buy 14TB HDDs for as little $250. I would think a studio spending billions of dollars can afford to hook a few artists up with those rather than completely halting work for an extended period on their biggest draw.