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Hi Matthieu,
20 TB WD My Book Duo USB 3.1 are $700 ... orWD 20TB My Cloud EX2 Ultra
Network Attached Storage $999 ...
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https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Ultra-Network-Attached-Storage/dp/B07179ZYH2/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3ILUXD0SCQ70Z&keywords=wd+20tb+my+book+duo&qid=1574426442&sprefix=wd+20+tb%2Caps%2C129&sr=8-3>you
may want to have one or more in your facility for backup (move month old
data) AND encourage P.I.'s to have in for their labs (and most PI's
think about their research, not about I.T. and need for data backups).
In a previous thread I posted about what we have ... some 10 Gbe
computers, 10 Gbe server (40 Tb HDD RAID array), and a switch 10 Gbe
Ethernet (CAT7 copper wire, others pointed out SFP+ fiber optic is less
expensive ... future: connect our image core rooms to the fiber optic
switch room), some PCs with ASUS Hyper M.2 PCIe card with 4 Silicon
Power 2 Tb NVMe SSDs, ~$1050 for 8Tb fast local storage (PCIe x16 slot,
BIOS configure the slot as x4x4x4x4) ... goal is fast local acquisition
saving --> fast network --> best wishes.
JHU now provides 5 Terabytes Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage per
employee/student ... and in principle could call I.T. and get more. So
far, not easily "aggregated" by lab ... I hope this gets changed so a PI
of a 20 person lab gets 100 Tb to start with, organized by user (say 1
Tb private to that user, visible to the PI) and mostly organized by
projects.
enjoy,
George
On 11/22/2019 6:43 AM, VERMEREN Matthieu wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> We are producing massive amount of data that legally needs to be stored for up to ten years. This data also needs to be analysed fairly quickly -hence storage on local servers. Furthermore, some software companies (Huygens, Imaris...) are now offering server-based applications for image analysis -all the hard work is done on the server and your computer is just a terminal.
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> Currently, we tell users to transfer their data to NAS immediately after imaging, so the microscope computers are not clogged. Image files found on these computers are fair game after a month. We expect users to then back up their files from the NAS to cloud. All our image analysis is done on fairly beefy workstations and not server based.
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> As I'd like to future proof our IT, it would be great to know what servers/storage space do you have as part of your facilities/institutes? What solutions do you have for long term storage vs short to medium terms? Do you have server based applications?
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> Matthieu
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