naturerecordists
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Everlasting recordings?

Subject: Re: Everlasting recordings?
From: Walter Knapp <>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 01:32:35 -0400
Wild Sanctuary wrote:
> Just to store my archive would take in excess of 3000gb, Dominique. 
> That takes a fair amount of disk space. We are still waiting for a 
> single outboard unit on which to store that amount of data.

A RAID array could be of that size and is effectively a single outboard 
unit. Much larger arrays are being used in the enterprise servers. 
Things like Amazon's server system.

Of course that's a lot of money to set up and maintain. Unless you need 
instant access to the entire collection it's probably not worth it.

Walt






________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Admin

The University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering takes no responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the naturerecordists mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the archive e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU