> Me:
> > I'd did a search at sony.com and came up with
> > this...
> >
> > http://bpgprod.sel.sony.com/matrix.bpg
> >
> > But, Eugene, what the hell do you need 2
> > petabytes for?
>
> Hi Bryan, big thanks for the url. I have to do
> some unofficial consulting for a big (and
> rapidly growing!) archive here, to see whether
> it is cost-effective to archive 1.5 Mfiles a la
> 150 page each as 300 dpi facsimile (roughly 0.1
> MBytes/page, so currently it totals at about 23
> TBytes). Since the number of queries is
> <100/day, and the archive is a FIFO (oldest
> entries currently are from 1927) magnetic
> storage, whether RAID or a tape library seems
> not appropriate, CDR/DVD/WORM jukebox is
> probably the solution. Still, I have to mention
> the other alternatives in the report to explain
> why a jukebox is best.
Have you had a look at SMS (www.sms.com) for
CDR/DVD dukeboxes, and check out their "Data
Storage University" which has all the information
and references you can eat.
Happy hunting,
BM