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Washington State Archives Go Digital
prostoalex writes "USA Today and dozens of others report that Washington state archives went online. Over the past two years project participants scanned 1 million documents issued by state and country authorities. The archive is located in my alma mater Eastern Washington University (go Eagles!) The 800 terabyte storage system was developed by Microsoft and EDS."
... relate to state anti-competitive actions against Microsoft themselves? :)
I feel safer already.
The 800 terabyte storage system was developed by Microsoft and EDS.
:-)
How would windows have enough drive pointers to be able to access this? Would there be a drive AG:?
-Pete
The 800 terabyte storage system was developed by Microsoft and EDS.
Microsoft was able to confirm the system is expandable, and contrary to previous rumours, will infact have enough disk space to install Longhorn.
They do however state, that to do anything actually useful, more upgrades will be required.
liqbase
Over the past two years project participants scanned 1 million documents issued by state and country authorities.
If only someone had told them about Kinko's.
how about the 50 hours scandisk run after the crash ?
Run and hide. If there was ever a combination of resources destined to fail it's Windows and EDS. If it works at all I'll be surprised. If it keeps working I'll be amazed.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
5TB? how much is that in Libraries of Congress?