At Poseidon Players, we know how important it is to store backups. We are also confident that our customers are storing their own backups of their original content, but it never hurts to save it to yet another location. Our experience has led us to truly understand the flow of video content and have noticed that maintaining a "quick and easy to reach" copy of Master files is unnecessary and a waste of money. Once the content is sent off to the 3rd party publishers, and/or finished through our transcoding process (after verification of no artifacting), it is unlikely that the Master file is going to be needed anytime soon.

Using a "Long-Term" storage solution, we maintain a copy in a location that has relatively long retrieval times with the benefit of very low storage costs. In the rare case where we needed to re-transcode the original or our client lost their copy, we would be able to retrieve that copy. Things happen, and it is always better to be safe than sorry.