Paul

Use Raid. You can put together a huge Raid archive on an NT or LINUX box
for a (relatively) small amount of money. Also back the data up to DAT,
DLT or whatever is the current flavour, but keep it on real disk.
Optical (CD-ROM etc.), whilst improving, will always be too slow and too
expensive.

Just my 2c worth.
Neil


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>From:  Paul Jenkins[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  12 November 1996 10:14
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       CD ROM Storage
>
>Every year we take one year of data from our system and place it on
>Microfiche. Our users have decided they would rather have the data on CD
>ROM.  Our files are Image and KSAM and I was wondering if anyone has done
>anything like this and how you approached the problem.  I realize that there
>is data warehousing technology for the HP3000 which, is also been looked at.
>My primary focus is the CD ROM technology.
>
>Thank you in advance for any suggestions you might have.
>
>Paul Jenkins Programmer/Analyst
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>Idaho State Tax Commission
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