Drobo® Supports the Creative Powers of Hollywood Video Director

The Company

Funjacket Enterprises is a one-stop media shop for advertising, branding, and video post-production. Before starting Funjacket Enterprises, director Drew Takahashi began his career working with well-known Hollywood figures like George Lucas on American Graffiti and Francis Ford Coppola on The Conversation. Today, Funjacket Enterprises works on a variety of multimedia projects that produce a massive amount of data that must be stored and accessed, requiring a solution that is easy to manage and able to keep up with data growth over time.

On a Mission to Consolidate a Motley Crew of Drives

Drew has a large amount of video files spread out across hard drives, Firewire800 and USB drives that are located around his office. With data being stored on individual machines, Drew never felt secure about having everything ‘kind of’ backed up and found it difficult to keep track of his files. He determined network storage devices were too complicated and time consuming to be effective.

Simplicity Found with Drobo and DroboPro

Takahashi first purchased a four-bay Drobo in August of 2008 and quickly found that it was the ideal solution for the mass of data he already had, as well as being expandable so that the solution could continue to keep up with his growing work portfolio over time. With Drobo, Drew can store and access all of his data from a single location and disk redundancy ensures that it remains safe.

In addition to the Drobo, Takahashi owns the 8-drive DroboPro® unit which he uses to edit video projects by connecting it to his MacPro through a fast Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI connection.

Drobo and DroboPro let Takahashi focus on the creative aspects of his video projects rather than the technical details.

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