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I have to admit, so far we've stayed with direct attached storage for our setup, then backed up to a LTO-4 tape library (to be LTO-5 when we find the time to swap in the equipment we have for that).  I've often wondered whether we're really doing things the best way we could, but it's come down to a) we don't necessarily know enough to go another direction, and b) haven't had time to spend trying to investigate the alternatives.  I do worry a little about at what point it becomes too large to continue with DAS.  (We're up to about 17T I think for space available, thankfully we're still well below that on the space used.)

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rich Tibbals <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi All,

What systems of hardware, software management packages, and unit or college user policies are being employed for the support of research.  I am particularly interested in SAN or NAS (or cloud) systems for PI data storage and back-up.

Your experiences and insights are most appreciated.

--Rich

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Richard C. Tibbals
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College of Communication Arts & Sciences


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