NASA EOSDIS
Remote Data Store Project:
- Build a 6PB Data archive with a life expectancy of at least 20 years, probably more
- Make data and data products available to 2 million users
What to use?
- Online versus Nearline
- SCSI vs ATA
- Tape vs Optical
- How much of each and when?
Dealing with Technology Life Cycles – continual migration