While at 180 I launched the in-house editing department under the guidance of Peter Cline We started with a single G4 and a SCSI drive that could handle minutes of D1 SD footage!
We added a small patch panel with U-Matic, DVD, VHS and Betacam ingest capability and a second station shortly afterwards. With the launch of DV and FireWire, we were able to store and edit day of footage building a library of assets for mood videos and ‘ripomatics’.
We learnt early on swapping hard drives with client data on is not the safest way to handle data!
So I planned and pitched for 180 to invest in 5600GB of Apple XRAID running from two XSERVE G5s and wired for 4 edit stations on 4GB fibre. That was in 2005.
180 moved all video production to another building which allow us an upgrade; more editors, storage and some stunning new racks and cabling by Wire Broadcast and we grew to 16TB online storage, with nightly backup.
One of my last jobs for the agency was to consolidate all the kit back into the agency server room and upgrade it to macOS Big Sur. By then we were serving 120TB to 8 edit suites on 8GB fibre. We;d also moved from Promise fibre storage to HP, a big learning step. Keeping the Promise for hot backups.
We did this move ourselves, but we kept the WireBroadcast spacers.
The agency is currently migrating to LucidLink, which has the signs of being a great tool, (if they fix their installation and remove the Kext extension dependency!).