Long-Term Storage of Moderately Large Datasets?

hawkeyeMI writes "I have a small scientific services company, and we end up generating fairly large datasets (2-3 TB) for each customer. We don't have to ship all of that, but we do need to keep some compressed archives. The best I can come up with right now is to buy some large hard drives, use software RAID in linux to make a RAID5 set out of them, and store them in a safe deposit box. I feel like there must be a better way for a small business, but despite some research into Blu-ray, I've not been able to find a good, cost-effective alternative. A tape library would be impractical at the present time. What do you recommend?"

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bzip2

[Colin Smith]

And optar:

http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/

You know it makes sense.

I'd encrypt the data and...

[Rivalz]

Label it something like complete american idol blueray collection and upload it on p2p to piratebay. every couple years rename it to some other horrible popular tv series. It will be self sustaining form of storage with infinite number of redundant hosts.