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Re: Storage and Archiving
by Ramona Howard on Mar 25, 2008 at 4:27:05 pm

Unfortunately there isn't a single answer to this problem.

Short term archiving can certainly be done with drives (in a raid configuration of course). Long term we have seen done on everything from CD to film.

Drives certainly are also used but in a larger scale than a single firewire or SATA drive. Drive failure is certain so it is factored into the solution.

The solution is usually going to be what best fits your pocketbook because there are numerous ones to choose from and there will always be newer and better ones that come along.

The problem is like a squirrel and his stash of nuts. Constantly shuffling and re-assessing.

Our new Bravo solution, a system that currently holds SAS or SATA drives but that can adapt easily to future needs was not originally designed for this (archiving) but we are finding out that many are looking at it solely for this purpose.

It is a 2 SixPak canister unit but each canister can hold 1 to 6 drives and each canister can be a different type of drive. i.e one canister can hold inexpensive, slow SATA (Raid of course) while the other a newer faster drive. The benefit is in the shuffling. Going from Pak to Pak is as fast as the content can come off the disks. It's all over the buss, no outside protocols to deal with.

Tie in an LTO, DVD or CD Rom or yes even a Zip Drive to the system and now you have an all in one way to shuffle away :)


Cheers,
Ramona






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