Michael Halcrow wrote:
I would suspect that one of those RAID NAS units would be a good
backup solution for many environments. Sealed hard disks accessed via
NFS/SMB/FTP over an Ethernet connection will probably be accessible
for as long as you'll need the data, and they will certainly last
longer than either tape or optical when being written to
repeatedly. Here's something I found on NewEgg (note that I do not
necessarily endorse this product, but it is pretty cheap for a
stand-alone solution, at about 70 cents a gigabyte):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822155306
This one claims to do RAID-5, if you are a bit more paranoid about
hardware failure (which you should be ;-):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833329006
Mike
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"In science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts."
- Carl Sagan
There was talk of having a massive archive server a few years ago-- I
thought it was a pretty cool idea-- but those discussions never
materialized. I suspect that there is some comfort in something that
sits on a shelf w/ no maintenance requirements. [warning *** personal
opinion here] Something that does it's job regardless of re-orgs, job
changes, business climate etc... Lets face it- as painfull as some
tapes are to read, you can usually [with a little patience] pull one out
from 10-20 years ago and pull data off it [if it was written correctly,
if the guy who wrote it verified he had his data on the tape]-- and you
can do this regardless of wether it was VAX, HP-UX, Sun etc...
I thought it was cool- you'd have the advantage of capacity, random
access [all archived data could be made available to all -- wich woudl
be really cool], and speed. Way faster than TAPE or DVD. It never
materialized though...
Justin Gedge
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