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While not a personal experience, I think that the NY Times effort to convert 4TB of TIFFS to 11 million PDFs using Hadoop + EC2 + S3 might be of interest: http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/02/hadoop-ec2-s3-super-alternatives-for.html Glen > Hi Folks, > Anybody doing mass storage for their library/consortium on amazon s3? > > Anybody rejected it as an idea? > > Willing to share? Please do. > > Tim > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Tim Shearer > > Web Development Coordinator > The University Library > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > [log in to unmask] > 919-962-1288 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- Glen Newton | [log in to unmask] Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research & NRC W3C Advisory Committee Representative http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu tel/tél: 613-990-9163 | facsimile/télécopieur 613-952-8246 Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) National Research Council Canada (NRC)| M-55, 1200 Montreal Road http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ Institut canadien de l'information scientifique et technique (ICIST) Conseil national de recherches Canada | M-55, 1200 chemin Montréal Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada --