For a very modest project that I turned round for a client in one week, I filled up an entire 1.3 Gig MO cartridge with the project data. In the end I delivered about 35 Mbytes of finished art. Currently, hard disk space is cheaper than the floppy disks required to back it up. If you have a 10 Gig disk, buy another to clone it onto. It s almost cheap enough to buy a hard disk for every project.
Huge disks are now cheap.
You can therefore equip a Macintosh as an asset server and have 63 Gbytes on-line at once. That might sound like a lot but its not really, once you start to hold movie data on-line. If you need more space than that, you need to think about more industrial strength Sun servers or Epoch hierarchical storage systems. Check out the whole list of Cliff's pithy tips for Web developers . Corp. All Rights Reserved.