Equipment:

My primary camera is a Panasonic HVX-200 with a pair of 4GB P2 cards that plug into my aging G4 Powerbook. My usual audio setup is an AT-835b and a Gitzo boom pole. Other accessories: tripods, a Glidecam I bought to replace my home-built stabilizer, a greenscreen, batteries, a bunch of random cables, gels left over from various jobs, and so on.

Hard drives:

I currently have data on fourteen or so hard drives. They nominally total a little over 8TB before formatting: the actual data count is currently 5.32/6.94 TB. My current high-powered disk management scheme involves a spreadsheet and the mess you see to the right.

My latest addition to this jumble is ZFS raid-z array, four 500GB drives in a Sans Digital TRU-4 enclosure. I’ve used it for over a year now with no major complaints other than that running all the drives over a single USB port hurts performance. The payoff, though, is data integrity coupled with a portable volume that works on any of my computers without extra hardware. This will be my storage system going forward.

FutureTech:

• Every camera I have I figure out what I want in the next one. My current wishlist would be RAW support and 2k+ resolution: the Red One is probably the closest to my price range.
• Some better lighting equipment. And by that, I mean not work lights from Lowe’s.
• More disk space. No matter how much I have, that always applies.
• More RAM. See above.
• More CPU cycles. See above.