Take those numbers, including the cost for the server space (include backup, if necessary!) and you and your coworkers' time at your pay rates, and bring them to your boss.
Then give them the cost of a bookshelf.
Right, there comes a point where you have to either move on, or just buy yourself a Klingon costume and go with it.
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Liese S. - Dec 04, 2008 9:40:09 am PST #8254 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
tommyrot - Dec 04, 2008 9:50:17 am PST #8255 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Or you could try this: Get a bunch of rack servers for all the disk space you'll need. Then get some concrete blocks, and turn the rack servers into shelves.
Jessica - Dec 04, 2008 9:51:02 am PST #8256 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Get a bunch of rack servers for all the disk space you'll need. Then get some concrete blocks, and turn the rack servers into shelves.
HA. I love this.
amych - Dec 04, 2008 9:56:07 am PST #8257 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
217 business days.
You thought I was kidding about the "spending the next year digitizing" comment?
Then give them the cost of a bookshelf.
Liese is wise. And just the right kind of snarky.
Jessica - Dec 04, 2008 9:58:56 am PST #8258 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
You thought I was kidding about the "spending the next year digitizing" comment?
I'm very impressed by your accuracy!
It's not so much the cost of a bookshelf as it is the physical space it would take up. Our department is pretty much the redheaded stepchild of the company and is expected to take up as little space as possible so the grown-ups can get real work done.
omnis_audis - Dec 04, 2008 10:43:49 am PST #8259 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
bookshelves also have a lower cost in the long term. Won't there be bandwidth issues if folks are streaming video across the network? Server issues? Hard drive failure/replacement. Then do you back up those 15TB's? Or no, and when the drive crashes, spend ANOTHER year ripping that stuff again. And electricity for the drives. And the additional heat the gear will put off that would require more a/c. And where do you put the drives? And the noise that they will make.
OK, I'll stop now. Just throwing out some yellow flags. Food for thought.
Theodosia - Dec 04, 2008 12:12:58 pm PST #8260 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
There should be some way to get a "save the company a lot of money" award by letting them cost out the servers and upkeep, et cetera, and then save the day with your radical "More Shelving" solution.
Connie Neil - Dec 04, 2008 12:15:58 pm PST #8261 of 25501
brillig
your radical "More Shelving" solution
I have this Rube Goldberg vision of New Shelf leads to Need Bigger Office For New Shelf leads to Need New Building For Bigger Office etc.
Ginger - Dec 04, 2008 12:25:35 pm PST #8262 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The last place I worked used mobile shelves similar to these [link] to store publications.
Sean K - Dec 04, 2008 12:54:32 pm PST #8263 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
An alternate suggestion to either a shelf or digitizing -- some of those CD binders, with the platic pocket pages. It's amazing how much less space CDs and DVDs take up when you remove the jewel case/video box from the equation.