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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Erasable optical drive
Message-ID: <102799@convex.convex.com>
Date: 5 Jun 90 15:20:05 GMT
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In article <4574.AA4574@sosaria> wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) writes:
>In article <1950@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) says:
>
>> Each 5.25-inch industry-standard ISO format cartridge stores up
>> to 600 Mbytes of information.
>
>I have a question there not exactly concerning the Amiga, so please forgive
>me to ask it here:
>
>The largest optical drive I heard of until now can save 1.2 gigabytes. Now,
>what is the limit of disk space with very big computers (cray? :-)?

E-Systems here in Garland together with Ampex Corp. of Redwood City, CA is
putting the finishing touches on a data storage system that is controlled
by a Convex supercomputer and stores 1.1 terabytes.  This system is supposed
to be released sometime next year.  This is their baseline system.  The more
elaborite systems they are planning will store petabytes.

The storage on supers and mainframes is pretty much $$-limited.
If you can afford the storage, vendors will probably figure out
a way to hook it up to the machine  ;^).

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