Dear Friends,
Hi!
I am Choudhary Harekrishna D at this end...... I am obtaining the
evolutionary nature of our cosmos that we have observed with
experiments till date... and well am planning to go ahead and create a
movie out of the experimental data which would have the observed
events recorded in it... However ... when I have treaded on this idea
what I find is lack of storage space... the entire data is 9.5
terabytes and of this data say if I need or would look for a few
terabytes to store than where and how (on the internet could it be
possible) can I store in a complete cost effective manner...? How cost
effective is cost effective then well I would prefer to have something
absolutely freee... or the devices which would be cheapest to store
this level of data... could someone who answers this question let me
know the minimum budget that would be required to store this data in
terabytes...

You are looking for a free 9.5 terabytes to store data? (I hear little
chickens...)  Have you considered trying to get someone to sponser
your project (eg EMC, Netapps, etc.)?  I guess you could sign up for
9,500 Google email accounts and that would work. (each google email
account will be allowed to hold 1 gig of information)

Is your expectation this be in a flat file or some commercial RDBMS?

This article may interest you:
http://www.bluearc.com/customers/customers_rhythm.shtml

I´m not really sure if you are kidding.
If you´re not: I know (and tested) a provider that offers 1,5 GB
webspace for just ? 8,88 a month.

till-ga

To add to the above comment from my colleague till-ga, in addition to
your desire to find a provider of storage space, choudhary-ga, you
will also need to ensure that you have sufficient bandwidth in your
connection to the data in order to be able to use it. For example,
many residential broadband connections are limited to 10 GB or less
per month of total download, and are physically incapable of
downloading much more than about 350 GB per month. If you are employed
at a university with optical networking interconnections to the
Internet, you may be able to requisition access at the orders of
magnitude you need, as long as your department budget can pay for it.

Regards,

aht-ga
Google Answers Researcher

One comment recommends using cheap internet storage, the other using
high-end NAS solutions.
My proposal is somewhere in the middle: 
Build your own terabyte server for about $ 1000 / terabyte. You would
get huge high-speed storage for your needs for a few k$. Here is my
calculation:
4 IDE disks of 250 GB each, for 200 $ each =                  $ 800
old PC with two IDE slots, 128MB ram, 100Mb/s network card    $ 200
linux operating system                                        $   0
                                                              ---------
Total                                                        $ 1000 / 1 Tb

Of course you need some linux freak to set up the system (not a big deal) and
possibly a small hub or switch to connect all.
Success,
David

Thanks David Thanks a lot .... 
Very soon I would be going for it...

BYE,
HKC....

My question is how much space does an IDE occupy... and what is its weight ?
In other words is an IDE handy ... ?