Not to step on anyones toes, but speaking strictly from a storage point of view, we spent 25K dollars for a 11.2TB RAID system (before formating), including 3 year support & service contract, spare parts kit and management software. To mirror an EMC backup and archival solution, another 20K would probably do, with no annual maintenance fees.
On Oct 17, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Chuck Patch wrote: > On 10/17/06, Tom A. <tarnautovic at speakeasy.net> wrote: >> Storage media (hdd) is getting cheaper and larger. I really do not >> see the need >> for a new compression algorithm these days. Especially from MS. >> > I find this argument (which I have been hearing for years now) to be > fairly specious. The fact is that while storage may be cheaper digital > images are much bigger than they used to be and there are lots more of > them. Nor has bandwidth speeded up in proportion to the bulking up of > image sizes. And as for storage getting so much cheaper: having put > down 70K dollars this year for a 3.2 TB EMC system and facing ongoing > maintenance fees in the thousands per year, plus management software > for the drives, etc., I'm not so sure that disk has gotten all that > much cheaper, at least if you're talking about secure, robust storage. > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum > Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l >
