At 10:27 AM 6/12/2006, Ellen H. Fladger wrote: >Thanks to those of you who have responded thus far to my question about the >retention of TIFF files. I meant to also ask more specifically >about storage. >How are those of you who are working on digital projects storing your TIFFs. >Hard drive, server, CDs, DVDs? > Thanks again, Hello, Ellen, This is the big question. I think the best answer is: Can you piggyback on the IT infrastructure. Digital archives need to be managed. There is no real put-it-on-the-shelf-and-forget-about-it solution. If you can't use a managed digital store (tape and disk), then CD-ROM (Gold phthalocyanine dye) is the most secure shelf storage. We have seen gold DVDs from MAM-A with good claimed life, but no tests to back them up. If you wish to see what I'm doing in an all-disk environment, follow this link. I have not updated the document, but now I'm running full triple redundancy -- three disk copies -- of 1250 GB--a total of 15 250 GB drives. http://richardhess.com/notes/2006/03/07/data-storage-options-small-scale/ Cheers, Richard Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes. A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>