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Thanks for the advice so far, everyone. Any recommendations for processors and amount of RAM? Nathan On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Nate Vack <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Nathan Tallman <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > My institution is going to be purchasing a preservation server sometime > > within the next year. > > One thing you haven't mentioned so far is budget. Expect to fund this > at a fairly high level. > > At our lab, we've found that providing storage with an onsite and > offsite tape backup costs out to about $1/GB/year, excluding labor > (and we already had an offsite storage facility, too). This compares > somewhat favorably to Amazon S3, but is definitely in the same order > of magnitude. > > Your needs will vary somewhat (we have fairly high write loads, so we > spend a lot on tapes and want performance), but you'll probably come > to within a factor of 2-3 of that. > > -n >