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Subject: Re: 64 Vs 32
Message-ID: <1336@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 10:51:32 EST
Article-I.D.: uvacs.1336
Posted: Wed Mar 25 10:51:32 1987
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Organization: University of Virginia
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Keywords: digital videodisk, tertiary storage
Summary: disk farm

> >could put 100 or so 500M disk drives on it

> The (to me) unrealistic part of your retort was in assuming that the disk
> farm has long to live.

Probably not.

Many systems encourage the use of user-owned removeable disk packs, each of
which may have something like a megabyte of real data.  Think of tapes.

Such systems often wind up with dozens of drives, just to avoid frequent
mounting & dismounting of packs.  Think tape drives.