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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;asciibaron, post: 365039, member: 8566&quot;]storage is a lot more than $200 per Terabyte.&nbsp; hard drives are the cheapest part of the equation - the drive farm will require a serious server to implement, plus it will need a tape backup that can quickly do the job - a SAN is the most reliable system that would give you redundant data access and off line tape backup writing of the data.&nbsp; a small system without the tape backup would run $50,000.&nbsp; then you need the infrastructure to support the traffic - that&#039;s a backbone device and that&#039;s $75k</p><p><br /></p><p>then there is the issue of bandwidth, that is not cheap , esp when it&#039;s doing high res images - expect 2-3K per month for the bandwidth. </p><p><br /></p><p>then you have to have an IT staff, add in $300K for 2 full time and 1 part time sysops.</p><p><br /></p><p>recurring costs - 330k/year</p><p>initial costs - 175K in hardware and configuration</p><p><br /></p><p>so the first year it&#039;s costing 1/2 a million.&nbsp; that is not counting the high res image processing.</p><p><br /></p><p>1/2 a million is not minimal.&nbsp; 350k or so recurring costs is not minimal. </p><p><br /></p><p>-Steve - i do this for a living[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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