Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Most likely SATA storage, the price goes up if you need to download some data..... john ________________________________________ Sounds nice. Sounds a bit too good to be true. I would guess Amazon stores the data on tape on multiple sites. "Amazon Glacier is designed to provide average annual durability of 99.999999999% for an archive" I am surprised that that level of durability is possible on perishable media (and I don't really believe it :). One aspect of archival storage of digital data which is often overlooked is that digital data has to be regularly transcribed/converted to a current format for the archive to be useful. Regards, Spencer On Aug 21, 2012, at 18:28, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote: > Amazon has announced "Glacier" as a long-term storage / infrequent > retrieval service. It would seem perfect for those who wish to have a > completely separate backup for their important image libraries. > > You can read about it here: > > <http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/> > > This is NOT for ready on-line storage. You might have to wait 5 hours to > get your data. But it looks reasonably affordable. > > Adam Bridge > >