TY - GEN
T1 - Re-defining the storage hierarchy. An ultra-fast magneto-optical disk drive
AU - Nakagomi, Takashi
AU - Holzbach, Mark
AU - Van Meter, Rodney
AU - Ranade, Sanjay
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - Over the last 5 years, Asaca Corp. has developed a multibeam, magneto-optical disk drive with native 12.24 MByte/second transfer rate. Originally developed for video broadcasting, it is now being adapted for the computer mass data storage market. A SCSI-2 interface is currently being developed to attach the drive and its related autochanger to a high-performance computer as components of a network-attached, hierarchical file server (HFS) system. Storage capacities of 2.88 TB, and average aggregate (four drive system) I/O speeds of 32 MB/second are considered possible. Asaca's High-Speed Magneto-Optical (HSMO) technology enables a re-definition of the present storage hierarchy by allowing the use of optical disks to complement or, in some cases, replace high-performance magnetic tape. Many of the HSMO performance figures quoted in this paper are estimates which will be confirmed in the very near future when the SCSI-2 interface is completed.
AB - Over the last 5 years, Asaca Corp. has developed a multibeam, magneto-optical disk drive with native 12.24 MByte/second transfer rate. Originally developed for video broadcasting, it is now being adapted for the computer mass data storage market. A SCSI-2 interface is currently being developed to attach the drive and its related autochanger to a high-performance computer as components of a network-attached, hierarchical file server (HFS) system. Storage capacities of 2.88 TB, and average aggregate (four drive system) I/O speeds of 32 MB/second are considered possible. Asaca's High-Speed Magneto-Optical (HSMO) technology enables a re-definition of the present storage hierarchy by allowing the use of optical disks to complement or, in some cases, replace high-performance magnetic tape. Many of the HSMO performance figures quoted in this paper are estimates which will be confirmed in the very near future when the SCSI-2 interface is completed.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0027246892
SN - 081863460X
T3 - Digest of Papers - IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems
SP - 267
EP - 274
BT - Digest of Papers - IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems
PB - Publ by IEEE
T2 - Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems
Y2 - 26 April 1993 through 29 April 1993
ER -