I go through this same thing every once in a while.
For a period of time, I archived stuff onto CDs, but then projects got too big
and I had two CDs fail.
Then I thought to archive off to data DVD-R discs. For smaller projects, this
seems viable, especially if i make duplicate disks. I probably won't ever put
everything into a big ZIP archive and then break it up again, though -- that
was huge mistake. Just archiving as it is on the hard drive should be enough.
When I got to the larger projects, such as our first feature, I realized that
DVD-Rs were just not going to be enough.
I investigated tape drives and that seemd rather expensive, relative to just
buying a crapload of hard drives.
Then my sysadmin suggested that I simply buy a cheap server box and stuff it
full of hard drives. he would rig it so that it was a mirrored RAID and appear
on the network to be one giganto network drive. Now, I store EVERYTHING I've
ever done in that RAID. That's been good for the past five years or so.
However...
I'm starting to run out of room again.
So, after the next few paychecks, I'm going to buy up 4 or 6 (always in pairs
for a RAID) 250+G drives and hand the whole box over to him. He'll drain all
the data off the RAID to his network, replace all the tiny drives with the
250+G drives (giving me more than a terabyte of mirrored storage), and reload
my data onto the RAID. That still seems the cheapest way to store all that
data, yet keep it somewhat accessible.
Now, I suppose it would be cool to USE those few hundred G of storage I'll be
pulling off the box (there's only so much physical room in the server box)...
storage monkey,
Edward
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