Then everyone's data can be lost at once in the next cloud failure. Progress!
"The hardware failed in such a way that we could not forensically restore the data. What we were able to recover has been made available via a snapshot, although the data is in such a state that it may have little to no utility..." -Amazon to some of its cloud customers following their major crash last year http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-04-28/tech/29958976_1_amazon-customer-customers-data-data-loss -Eric On Apr 3, 2012, at 9:22 PM, Zhijie Li wrote: > Hi, > > Regarding the online image file storage issue, I just googled "cloud storage" > and had a look at the current pricing of such services. To my surprise, some > companies are offering unlimited storage for as low as $5 a month. So that's > $600 for 10 years. I am afraid that these companies will feel really sorry to > learn that there are some monsters called crystallographers living on our > planet. > > In our lab, some pre-21st century data sets were stored on tapes, newer ones > on DVD discs and IDE hard drives. All these media have become or will become > obsolete pretty soon. Not to mention the positive relationship of getting CRC > errors with the medium's age. Admittedly, it may become quite a job to upload > all image files that the whole crystallographic community generates per year. > But for individual labs, I think clouding data might become something worth > thinking of. > > Zhijie > >
