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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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