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Bulk Data Storage For The Common Man?

Posted by timothy on from the the-common-man-with-a-tb-a-month dept.

Vigyaan writes "Lately, I have been looking into different bulk data storage options available to a common man. My work depends on generating, storing and analyzing a large amount of data -- averaging about 1 TB per month. I would like to have a storage system which is automated, fast, reliable and most importantly does not cost the price of an eye. Right now, I have a 4 node Linux cluster with 10 large hard disks (total capacity 1.6 TB); data storage roughly costs about $0.60/GB (excluding the cost of PC hardware). But long term storage is painful -- DVDs cost about $0.10-$0.15/GB but takes too much human time and leaving data on hard disks makes me nervous because of possible failures. RAID is a possibility, but it increases the cost significantly. I was wondering, if Slashdot readers have any recommendations for a cheap automated way to store and retrieve data."

7 of 483 comments (clear)

  1. Back to the Future by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Use Doc's time machine, and you can bring some super-mega-future storage back.

  2. 1024 GMail Accounts by OrangeCarrot · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hook yourself up with as many gmail accounts as you can. Email yourself 1GB chunks of data whenever you need to back up your stuff.

  3. Lots of Gmail Accounts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Can't go wrong with Gmail!!

  4. GMail accounts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Okay, so you need a TB of storage... that's 1000 GMail accounts. I hear the invitations are flowing like wine these days, so that shouldn't be a problem. Shouldn't be difficult to automate a process which breaks down what you need stored then emails it off to these GMail accounts. You just have to think outside of the box.

  5. GMAIL by Konster · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Sign up for a hundred GMAIL accounts and e-mail yourself your backups!

    Let Google handle your backup worries!

  6. 1 TB of data a Month? by callipygian-showsyst · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's a LOT of pr0n

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    Best Buy can have you arrested
  7. P2P Backup by billstr78 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's easy. Name your files "Hot Lesbian 4-some[0000-1024].mpg" and make it available to the P2P sharing community. Every horny male in the country will then help to download and distribute your data across the country and when you want file number 5 back, just search for Hot Lesbian 4-some0005.mpg and bingo, 10 available good copys ready for re-use. ..