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>Date:         Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:58:05 -0500
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Greetings all,


Our languages curriculum is expanding to include more student-created 
multimedia, which is swell -- but with curricular modernization comes 
the associated snag of providing adequate storage space for these 
projects, both mid-creation (particularly in the extreme case of hours 
of raw digital film footage) and archival.  Students @ Bates have access 
to their own server space but their quota is insufficient for anything 
but small files.


I am currently using a couple of 200gig portable hard drives but this 
places an untenable demand on my and my interns' time and compromises 
the security of the saved materials, therefore am whipping up a new 
server request for my lab. To get a best-practice sense of what's 
working for others out in language-center-land, a query for you all:


What is your current practice vis-a-vis storage for larger media 
projects?  (Say, a French class with 5 student films with 12 gigs of raw 
footage each.)

Do you run your own in-house languages server?  How large for how many 
students?

Have a piece of a larger campus server?

Use portable hard drives?  Thumbs?  DVDs?

How are you archiving projects at semesters' end?


thanks for any & all insights,

Ellen
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