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From: bart@videovax.tv.Tek.com (Bart Massey)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: fast storage?
Message-ID: <5427@videovax.tv.Tek.com>
Date: 12 May 89 19:35:22 GMT
References: <DOVE.89May10131213@rocket.UUCP> <1264@mmm.UUCP>
Reply-To: bart@videovax.tv.tek.com (Bart Massey)
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Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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In article <1264@mmm.UUCP> schultz@mmm.UUCP (John C Schultz) writes:
*> In article <DOVE.89May10131213@rocket.UUCP> dove@rocket.UUCP (Webster Dove) writes:
*> >Is there any faster large capacity storage that a Fujitsu 2380A
*> >parallel head 1Gbyte disk (15 Mbyte/sec) that could be used to store
*> >strictly sequential data?
*> 
*> A moderately priced disk drive maybe.  Pretty high speed for tape.  

This sounds like a made-to-order application for disk-striping.  Should you
be considering 10 100M drives?  The most recent Usenix proceedings have
some interesting articles on disk farms for UNIX systems...

					Bart Massey
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