Valhalla

This wiki page is a collection of ideas for Project Valhalla.

<SketchCow> Basically, we have this situation where we have stuff that is being threatened,
and it's huge, and then it's either not so threatened or it's in a weird quantum state.
So, this really stretches the bounds of what IA does. It's a huge amount of data, it's not likely 
to be overly touched if the originals are up, and IA will spend/lose a lot of money pulling it into their infrastructure.
So maybe we can discuss actual, not pie-in-the-sky possibilities of what we can do to have some sort of not-IA pile of storage.

Options

• Tapes
• PaperBack
• Optar
• Blu-ray: lasts a LOT longer than CD/DVD but should not be assumed to last more than a decade
• M-DISC: Unproven technology, but potentially interesting.
• Flash media
  • Wears out quickly, not-so-good long term storage
  • Soliciting donations for old flash media from people, or sponsorship from flash companies?
• Periodically launching hard drives into space; has side effect of generating revenue for SpaceX

Non-options

• BitTorrent Sync
  • Proprietary (currently), so not a good idea to use as an archival format/platform
• Amazon Glacier
  • Amazon Glacier seems like a a great idea, until you realize they mean 1 cent per gigabyte per month. This is $120 per terabyte per year. The transfer out of 100TB would also run over $10,000 the month its pulled from the system.

• Ink-based Consumer Optical Media (CDs, DVD, etc.)
  • Differences between Blu-Ray and DVD? DVDs do not last very long.