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> I was wondering if anyone has thoughts about the storage of digital
> images.
>
> We would like to set up a RAID system with about 500GB of storage (with
> expandability) to store and serve up our raw scans which we use for
> various things--to create derivatives for our website, derivatives for our
> AMICO contributions, rights and reproductions, to serve up a database of
> photoarchive images, etc. etc.
>
> One of our funders has asked us to look into off-site storage and I can
> find no one who thinks that off-site digital image storage is a good idea.
> Right now we are just burning things onto CD but I'd like to implement a
> RAIDED server with hard-drives in modular cabinets. Cornell seems to
> agree with me that this is the way to go (they also have somewhere between
> 300 and 500 GB of master TIFF images that are kept on a RAIDed Sun
> Server).
>
> Any thoughts on this or any ideas who else would be good to contact about
> these issues.
>
> Floyd
>
>
> Floyd Sweeting III, Head, Information Systems Department
> The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library
> 10 E. 71st Street, New York, NY 10021-4967
> Tel: (212) 547-6889 Fax: (212) 879-2091
> http://www.frick.org mailto:[log in to unmask]
>
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