There have been a few threads recently about expanding storage/external drives, etc so I thought this might be of interest.
Seagate has released an 8TB drive which sells bare for just $260!
http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/12/seagate-ships-8tb-shingled-hard-drive/
That's a huge amount of capacity for a very reasonable price. As an internal drive or in an external enclosure with your choice of interface, this makes for a very affordable option for storing large amounts of footage. With read speeds of 150MB/s it should be fine for anything other than editing raw directly.
I also recently came across Backblaze's drive reliability reports - Backblaze is a cloud backup service so they go through a ton of drives and they've been reporting on failure rates on their blog:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
Unfortunately Seagate comes out worst in the rankings, followed by Western Digital, with Hitachi coming in with the highest reliability. The numbers vary quite a bit depending on the specific drive though - for instance, Seagate's 4TB drives do much better than their smaller drives. Hard to know where the 8TB drives will end up at this point.
Seagate has released an 8TB drive which sells bare for just $260!
http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/12/seagate-ships-8tb-shingled-hard-drive/
That's a huge amount of capacity for a very reasonable price. As an internal drive or in an external enclosure with your choice of interface, this makes for a very affordable option for storing large amounts of footage. With read speeds of 150MB/s it should be fine for anything other than editing raw directly.
I also recently came across Backblaze's drive reliability reports - Backblaze is a cloud backup service so they go through a ton of drives and they've been reporting on failure rates on their blog:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
Unfortunately Seagate comes out worst in the rankings, followed by Western Digital, with Hitachi coming in with the highest reliability. The numbers vary quite a bit depending on the specific drive though - for instance, Seagate's 4TB drives do much better than their smaller drives. Hard to know where the 8TB drives will end up at this point.