18th November 2008, 08:55 PM
Kevin,
How about lots of projects producing archives needing +200 Gb of storage space, an archive of mine may need in excess of 4 Tb of bandwidth to upload and store and that's just one archive, imagine the implications on a national scale. the cost for 4 Tb of storage on two 2 Tb external hard drives would be in the region of £800, upload costs to a secure accessible server are also a factor to consider. Data storage and associated upload costs are much more than your model assumes. It may be worth talking to the ADS, or similar digital archive specialists, before making assumptions about the true cost of digital archiving.
How about lots of projects producing archives needing +200 Gb of storage space, an archive of mine may need in excess of 4 Tb of bandwidth to upload and store and that's just one archive, imagine the implications on a national scale. the cost for 4 Tb of storage on two 2 Tb external hard drives would be in the region of £800, upload costs to a secure accessible server are also a factor to consider. Data storage and associated upload costs are much more than your model assumes. It may be worth talking to the ADS, or similar digital archive specialists, before making assumptions about the true cost of digital archiving.