The majority of the costs of the current mass storage have been covered by a FEDER grant obtained by the GIGA. However, some operating costs are not covered by this grant, such as costs linked to the improvement of the performances, the offline archiving system, the extension of the maintenance contract, etc. Moreover, the volume of data generated by new technologies keeps increasing exponentially, our mass storage is filling up quickly, and we need to extend it to store all data generated by GIGA members.
The majority of the costs of the current mass storage have been covered by a FEDER grant obtained by the GIGA. However, some operating costs are not covered by this grant, such as costs linked to the improvement of the performances, the offline archiving system, the extension of the maintenance contract, etc. Moreover, the volume of data generated by new technologies keeps increasing exponentially, **our mass storage is filling up quickly**, and we need to extend it to store all data generated by GIGA members.
The price of disk and tape extension vary over time, and also according to the volume bought (the more we buy, the cheapest). From previous times, we can estimate that 1Tb of data saved on disk (with 2 backup copies on tape) costs approximatively 80€ per year, and 1 Tb of data archived offline (2 copies on tape) costs about 20€ per year (not including the cost of running a cooling system in the server room and maintainers' salaries).
The price of disk and tape extension vary over time, and also according to the volume bought (the more we buy, the cheapest). From previous times, we can estimate that 1Tb of data saved on disk (with 2 backup copies on tape) costs approximatively 80€ per year, and 1 Tb of data archived offline (2 copies on tape) costs about 20€ per year when buying a few hundreds of Tb at once (not including the cost of running a cooling system in the server room and maintainers' salaries).
For all these reasons, the GIGA decided to give to each research team a certain amount of free space on the mass storage, and to charge any additional space used by them. The revenues from these fees will be used exclusively for costs linked to the mass storage management and extension.
For all these reasons, the GIGA decided to give to each research team a certain amount of free space on the mass storage, and to charge any additional space used by them. The revenues from these fees will be used exclusively for costs linked to the mass storage management and extension.
