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  1. Re:Plasmon... yum yum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Researchers Prove Existence Of New Type Of Electron Wave

    Here was me thinking it was a storage company.

  2. Re:Enterprise Storage Company by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Samba Success in the Enterprise?

    UDO Archive Appliance, FYI.

  3. Re:This bears repeating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful · on How To Choose Archival CD/DVD Media

    For backups and archival you need tape backups,

    No.

    For reliable 50+ year archival, you should consider UDO. 30GB per disc (15 per side) with a garanteed life of 50 years.

  4. UDO Archive Appliance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting · on How To Choose Archival CD/DVD Media

    Why not just get a NAS that has RAID? That would make more sense. When a disc dies, you can replace it, rebuild your array, and everything is fine. PLUS, you could expand your archive over time.

    How about NAS RAID and UDO all in one system, the Archive Appliance.

  5. UDO Archive Appliance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting · on How To Choose Archival CD/DVD Media

    Why not just get a NAS that has RAID? That would make more sense. When a disc dies, you can replace it, rebuild your array, and everything is fine. PLUS, you could expand your archive over time.

    How about NAS RAID and UDO all in one system, the Archive Appliance.

  6. How about UDO? by turgid · · Score: 1 · on Mid-Size Business Tape Library Suggestions?

    The shelf life may be longer on hard drives, but the chance of the tape surviving the move to the offsite storage facility is way higher.

    You might find UDO discs better than both.

  7. UDO Archive Appliance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Mid-Size Business Tape Library Suggestions?

    How about a UDO Archive Appliance?

    It's "tiered" storage combining RAID and Ultra Density Optical 30GB disks (soon to be upgraded to 60BG). There is a range of Archive Appliances going from a few slots to over 600, from one internal UDO drive to about 8 or 10 IIRC.

    The idea is, the Appliance appears on your network as conventional Network Attached Storagae using FTP, NFS or SAMBA (the RAID part). You put your files on the RAID and the files are migrated to the UDO disks (two copies) which can then be taken away and archived.

    UDO disks are guaranteed to last at least 50 years. UDO2 will double the capacity of the disks to 60BG. They're in a 5.25" cartridge and data is written to both sides.

    It has a nice web gui for administration and recovering archived data.

    And best of all, it runs Linux :-)

  8. UDF is the correct answer by turgid · · Score: 2, Informative · on A Good Filesystem for Storing Large Binaries?

    What you're looking for is Universal Disk Format or UDF.

    It is an open standard supported by all of the major OSes and manufacturers and is the filesystem of choise for Ultra Density Optical WORM and rewritable disks.

    There a drivers for Linux, Windows and all of the major UNIXes. Here is the obligatory Wikipedia entry.

    Hard disk filesystems like XFS, JFS, Reiser, ZFS etc. are all wonderful at what they do but they are unsuitable for WORM disks.

  9. Ultra Density Optical by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Burned CDs Last 5 years Max -- Use Tape?

    What you want is UDO. Keeps your data safe for 50 years guaranteed.

  10. Larger version by mousse-man · · Score: 1 · on Magneto-Optical Drives Reviewed

    There are larger versions around. The current standard for archival media is 9.1 GB, either in WORM or MO format, and these media can be written by a real MO jukebox. Of course, you can put it 30 GB UDO drives that will give some more space when one multiplies it with the number of available slots....

  11. DVD Jukeboxes by handsomepete · · Score: 5, Informative · on Time to Purchase a DVD-R?
    The company I work for currently uses Plasmon jukeboxes for DVD media coupled with Kofax's Ascent products. We store document images on them and you would be surprised how quickly they go. It's certainly not the end all of storage solutions. After messing with these things for over a year, I'd say they're more trouble than they're worth. Explore other routes unless this is for extremely limited access. Although the jukeboxes can be occasionally found for cheap on E-bay, you still might be better off running good 'ol fashioned hard disks.

    If you do go the DVD route, watch out for:

    Running out of discs (these things go faster than you think)

    Jammed discs

    Depending on the client software, inane Windows error messages - quite a few programs don't know how to handle waiting for a disk to move into an active drive.

    ...and if you don't use Windows, well... lucky you. Just my experiences - everyone else's will undoubtedly vary.

  12. Well, when you get a *big* collection.... by tcomeau · · Score: 1 · on Storing Hundreds Of CDs?
    You could stick them in a CD jukebox like these.

    We have several of the 480-disk model in the office for storing the digitized sky survey and the Multimission Archive at Space Telescope, excluding the Hubble Data Archive. (We keep the Hubble data on other, larger capacity media.)

    I visited Plasmon before we selected their MO jukebox, and the guys there confirmed that you could use the CD-R drives to play music CDs, with the appropriate audio mixer and drivers.

    This may, however, be a bit more expensive than you'd like.

    tc>

  13. Well, when you get a *big* collection.... by tcomeau · · Score: 1 · on Storing Hundreds Of CDs?
    You could stick them in a CD jukebox like these.

    We have several of the 480-disk model in the office for storing the digitized sky survey and the Multimission Archive at Space Telescope, excluding the Hubble Data Archive. (We keep the Hubble data on other, larger capacity media.)

    I visited Plasmon before we selected their MO jukebox, and the guys there confirmed that you could use the CD-R drives to play music CDs, with the appropriate audio mixer and drivers.

    This may, however, be a bit more expensive than you'd like.

    tc>