Rapid access, large capacity storage devices
Ben Olasov
olasov at cs.columbia.edu
Tue Sep 5 07:01:03 AEST 1989
Recently there's been a fair amount of discussion about large capacity
storage devices such as Exabyte, etc. Most of the discussion I've
heard re: laser disks has been from manufacturers. Their (laser disk
manufacturers') point of view seems (naturally enough) to be that this is
both a high performance and cost effective storage strategy. Their
specifications, by and large, seem to support their claims. For
example, laser disks can now be daisy chained and support true unix
directory structures.
Can anyone comment on the comparative merits of using laser disks as
archive/ retrieval devices for large numbers of large files, such as
raster image files?
Ben olasov at cs.columbia.edu
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