"David Lifka, director of the CAC and adjunct associate professor of computing and information science at Cornell, and his colleagues were targeting $1,000 per terabyte per year, including maintenance, for the system, which they plan to upgrade in three years. "Now with the Ocarina solution, it seems likely it won't be unusual for a researcher to get potentially up to 2 terabytes because of the compression rates for $1,000 per year," he said. "That's pretty compelling because you can be as cheap as the USB drives you can plug into your laptop with all the great performance and availability and characteristics." - Vivien Marx
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