Removable Disk in the Digital Archive: A Cost/Benefit Analysis
By John Webster, Illuminata
The need for archival storage has been made particularly acute by regulatory compliance and litigation protection requirements. Disk arrays, even those using inexpensive SATA disks, are a relatively expensive proposition for archival storage. Tape is the obvious alternative to disk for archival storage, but it has its own limitations including frequent refresh cycles and is an impractical media to support litigation e-discovery. This paper examines the impact of removable disk on archiving.
ter·a·byte year (tĕr'ə-bīt yeer)
-noun
- One trillion bytes stored for a period of 365 days.
- The need to manage increasing amounts of information over extended periods of time.

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