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How do they store the information for IMAX movies?

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JD45093   07-19-2009 at 05:54:01 AM

I was reading an article about Transformers and they sad that they had over 150 Terabytes of Data for the special effects. How do they store all this Data? It would be like 80 3.5" 2 TB hard dives.

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cjl   07-19-2009 at 06:38:59 AM
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They have a LOT of servers. 150TB isn't undoably large for that kind of budget.

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jaguarskx   07-19-2009 at 01:10:34 PM
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A huge server farm or....


they cornered the world market on 3.5" Floppy Discs to store all that data.

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sminlal   07-19-2009 at 10:13:55 PM
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JD45093 wrote :

How do they store all this Data? It would be like 80 3.5" 2 TB hard dives.

For a project with that kind of budget, getting that much hard drive space set up would be relatively easy. The hard part is backing it up! :o

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xaira   07-19-2009 at 10:38:15 PM
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server farms, i used to ask questions like that, but once theres a need, and someones willing to finance that need, someones gonna get the financiers money, apparently theres a way to raid volumes on multiple servers, wat i wanna know is how the hell do they transport the data to individual theatres, how long u think itd take an i7 975 to convert that to a 4.5 gb h264 file, im sure cuda would help.

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Anonymous   08-15-2009 at 09:51:34 PM
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It's called film, folks. IMAX still uses 65mm or 70mm stock. There is a digital IMAX, but it is apparently of lower quality.


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xaira   08-15-2009 at 10:58:01 PM
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i really didnt know that, thx 4 the input

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