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A former colleague of mine has recently pointed me to a server solution for
bio imaging platforms that might be of interest also for those non IT
experts. Check http://www.acquifer.de/hive-platform-features/
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Cheers, Jens
Am 08.04.2014 05:33 schrieb "Dave Mason" <[log in to unmask]>:

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> Hello all,
>
> I've dealt with this problem at a few institutions. At Liverpool we've
> recently installed two 60TB servers (36 bay 4U rack mount, with RAID6).
> Only
> one is accessed by users and the other serves as a mirror to those data,
> with incremental backups happening in the evenings/weekends (we use
> robocopy
> and rsync for backups depending on the platform). The server will also host
> our OMERO server, which we're hoping will take care of our file
> management/record keeping needs.
>
> We were looking at a NAS solution but the selection is poor when you
> require
> 24+ disks and multiple 10Gb network connections.
>
> By my estimates you can get about 60TB (mirrored - so 120TB but with two
> copies of your data) for £20k. If you're looking for 350TB I guess that's
> around £120K (these are obviously UK prices). If you don't want to involve
> your IT department, it could get more expensive as you should also be
> thinking about air cooling, power smoothing, battery backups, physical
> security &c.
>
> Dave Mason
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