How can it help media production cope with rising HDD and flash storage prices? Media production starts with a critical step: ingesting content. Whether you’re working with footage from digital cameras, tapeless workflows, or archival sources, this first step lays the foundation for everything that follows.
Storage Under Pressure: Why the HDD and SSD Shortage Is the Perfect Time to Rethink Archiving
By David Fox For years, the answer to growing storage requirements in media and entertainment environments has been remarkably simple: buy more storage. When production teams filled a NAS, SAN, or cloud tier, additional capacity was ordered. As projects accumulated,
Generate Mosaic-Style Video Previews in P5 Archive
One of P5 Archive’s strengths is the mini-MAM function, which can capture thumbnails, proxies and metadata from media assets. This allows for the content of off-line media to be browsed visually in P5’s web-admin interface. The capture of thumbnails and
Why LTO Tape Drives Never Reach Their Rated Speed
Every LTO tape drive comes with a datasheet listing a maximum native transfer rate. These numbers are real — but they describe a theoretical ceiling, not a realistic operating point. In practice, every installation falls short of them. The only
P5 Version 8: Smarter Control for Modern Media Archives
By David Fox Media and entertainment storage is no longer just about capacity. It is about control, visibility, compliance, and workflow integration. Editors expect immediate access to the right assets. Producers expect security. Studios expect encryption. Finance expects cost transparency.
Archiware P5 Archive and Large Enterprise Requirements
By Josef Doods Driven by growing storage demands and the associated spiking costs, we are receiving an increasing number of inquiries from large enterprises and institutional organizations. These organizations have accumulated very large volumes of data over the years and
Automating Proxy Generation for Media Workflows with P5 Archive
Introduction In modern media production, working with high-resolution footage has become the standard. Whether it’s 4K, 6K, or even 8K RAW files from cameras like RED, ARRI, or Blackmagic, the sheer size of these files presents significant challenges for editing
HSM in Theory vs Reality: Why Media Organisations Need a Lighter, Faster Approach
Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) is often presented as an elegant answer to a familiar problem: how to balance fast, expensive storage with slower, cheaper long-term tiers such as tape or cloud. On paper, HSM promises seamless access to archived data,
5 Reasons Media Companies Are Bringing Data Back Home
For years, “move it to the cloud” sounded like the obvious answer to every storage problem. It promised simplicity, scalability, and freedom from hardware headaches. For a while, that worked. But in the media and entertainment world, where every shoot
Boosting Data Resiliency through Smarter Connectivity – From Direct Attach to Network Ready Backups and Archive!
Meet growing data protection demands with modern LTO tape solutions that work across direct and networked environments – powered by ATTO and Archiware. Cybersecurity breaches and ransomware are making one thing inevitable: offline, air-gapped backups are a necessity. Organizations of
6 Easy Steps to Make Your Company’s Files Cyber-Secure
By Dr. Marc M. Batschkus For small to medium-sized businesses, creating resilience against any cyberattacks, ransomware and network breaches is a challenge. Constant adjustments and costly protection methods are out of reach for most companies of this size. Network and
Comparison of LTO and Cloud Storage Costs for Media Archive
By David Fox June 2025 update notes: A further update to this article, a couple of years on from 2023. Cloud storage costs from AWS have remained static, small increases from Wasabi and Backblaze. We’re switching to LTO-9 tapes for
8 steps to deal with discontinuation of the Sony ODA Archive solution and how to migrate an existing ODA installation
As soon as vendor of an Archive solution announces the discontinuation of the archive product, there are many open questions among users of their solution and sometimes even a slight panic. With the recent announcement of Sony “…that the Optical
5 Reasons Archiware P5 Is the Most Versatile Cross-Platform Tool for LTO Archiving
As digital media continues to grow in size and complexity, so does the need to preserve it reliably and affordably. In broadcast, post-production, and creative agencies, LTO tape remains the gold standard for long-term archive — offering high capacity, low
The Surprising Way LTO Tape Stores Your Data
For many, the idea of writing data to a tape seems simple. Start at the beginning and continue to the end, much like an old C90 cassette tape or VHS recording. However, modern Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology works in a
15 Storage und Datenmanagement Trends für 2025
By Dr. Marc M. Batschkus 1. Growth of Storage-as-a-Service (StaaS) Offerings On-premises StaaS solutions involve storage systems being installed and maintained at the customer’s location by StaaS providers. Capacity expansion, data backup, and disaster recovery (DR) can be managed easily
Data Air-Gaps: Protecting the Media and Entertainment Industry from Ransomware
In the media and entertainment industry, where large volumes of valuable media files are produced, edited, and stored, data security is paramount. The rise of ransomware attacks has created significant challenges for companies handling vast libraries of high-resolution videos, audio
Five Things You Need to Know About LTO
The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format has, for many years, been a key player in data storage, especially for the media and entertainment industries that require secure, long-term solutions for storing vast amounts of data. Here’s a look at five crucial
LTO Tape – Backwards Compatibility
Starting with LTO-8, changes were made to LTO’s backwards compatibility. Previously, LTO drives could read tapes from two generations back and write to tapes from the previous generation. For instance, an LTO-7 drive could read LTO-7, LTO-6, and LTO-5 tapes,
What is the 3-2-1-1-0 Backup Strategy and How to Use it?
by Dr. Marc M. Batschkus The Backup is the protection against multiple possible errors, mishaps and attacks. The Backup serves as a solution for occasional lost or deleted file or file version and as Disaster Recovery (DR). Any useful professional
