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From: olasov@cs.columbia.edu (Ben Olasov)
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Subject: Rapid access, large capacity storage devices
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 4 Sep 89 21:01:03 GMT
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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@cs.columbia.edu