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


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Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm
Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes. 

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