Digital Asset Management--Lessons in Asset Architecture

Costly RAID
At the shop, a single page for a flyer, brochure or catalog could easily take up an additional 60MB of digital material for CTP files. Multiply that by 96 pages and the additional storage requirement for a single job can get a little intimidating.

"Because of the enormous capacities involved, RAID quickly became too costly and access to off-line storage, we feel, is too cumbersome, so we had to stage another platform for maintaining our massive digital files," Ballantyne explains.