MEDIA MANAGEMENT
Secure Your Collection, and Rediscover Everything In It.
Digitizing saves your media; this is the part that protects it and helps you get everything out of it. Most services hand you a hard drive and wish you luck. We set your collection up the right way: secure, organized, and ready to reveal what's inside.
A Hard Drive Is Not Preservation
A single hard drive isn't preservation. Drives fail without warning, a power surge can take one out in an instant, and a collection scattered across drives, discs, and cloud services is one you can't actually use. Saving your media is one thing; keeping it safe and within reach is another, and it's the part most services leave entirely to you.
Securing Your Collection
A big digitization project is the perfect opportunity to get your storage right, and we look at it holistically. Not just where your files land, but how the whole setup works together: the drives, the power, the backups, and how you'll actually use your collection. As we plan the work and learn your goals, we set everything up properly: the right new drives, configured to a professional standard, so your master files are safe from the start. You own your drives; we make sure they're the right ones. It's a one-time setup, and the difference between a collection that survives and one that quietly disappears.
The right drives: we recommend exactly which drives to buy, how many, and which to avoid, based on the size of your collection and how you plan to use it.
Room to consolidate and grow: we also ask what else you have: other drives, scattered files, material you may add down the road. When it makes sense, we size your new drives to bring it all together and leave room for the future, so you're not redoing this a year from now.
Matched to your systems: The computers and workflow you'll be using determine the right formatting and configuration, so everything works together from the start.
Redundancy and off-site safety: we set you up on the recognized 3-2-1 standard: multiple copies, on different drives, with one kept in a separate location.
Protected power: we recommend a proper UPS (uninterruptible power supply) with a pure sine-wave output. A drive running on unprotected power can be damaged when the power flickers or surges; clean, backed-up power keeps it safe.
Best practices that last: we show you how to handle, connect, and care for your drives, so they have the longest possible life.
A complete solution, if you want one: some clients want us to handle the whole setup, computers included. Based on your goals, we can spec and put together the entire system, so everything works as one from day one.
Some clients just want their files on a drive and sent back, and that's fine. But the professionals who hold collections worth protecting want to get this right, and we make sure they do.
COMING
Discover the Full Value of Your Collection
Digitizing protects your collection. But its real value is in what's inside, and most of that stays out of reach. There's rarely time to go through it all, and after years in storage, you may not even remember everything you have. It's the same reason the thousands of photos on your phone go unseen, while the ones you once printed still get looked at.
We're developing a way to change that. Beyond simply searching, your collection will surface itself to you: moments, people, and stories gathered from your tapes and brought forward on their own. You may be surprised by what you find, and by what you could create with it. Ask us what's coming.
Ready to protect your collection and make the most of it?
Start with a free virtual consultation. We'll learn what you have and how you want to use it, then plan the right setup together (secure, organized, and ready to reveal everything inside) and give you a cost estimate. No pressure.
Request a Free Collection Assessment
