The next generation of high-energy physics experiments is expected to gatherprodigious amounts of data. New methods must be developed to handle this dataand make analysis at universities possible. We examine some techniques that userecent developments in commodity hardware. We test redundant arrays ofintegrated drive electronics (IDE) disk drives for use in offline high-energyphysics data analysis. IDE redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) pricesnow equal the cost per terabyte of million-dollar tape robots! The arrays canbe scaled to sizes affordable to institutions without robots and used when fastrandom access at low cost is important. We also explore three methods of movingdata between sites; internet transfers, hot pluggable IDE disks in FireWirecases, and writable digital video disks (DVD-R).
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