Title :
Multi-terabyte automated mass storage
Author_Institution :
Honeywell Test Instrum. Div., Littleton, CO, USA
Abstract :
A candidate technology offering a mature high-performance and low-cost approach to automated mass storage is discussed. It utilizes 0.5-in video magnetic tape, industrial-quality drive mechanisms, and broadcast video robotics. Accompanying software provides logical volume and file management and appears to host systems that are as large but have a slow-access online diskfile system. Cassettes with over 6 GB of storage and drives operating at up to 4 MB/s sustained are incorporated in a robotic assembly holding 600 cassettes. The system has a capacity of nearly 4 TB and occupies only 18 ft/sup 2/ of floor space. A full-load media cost is about $6000. Advances in data-transfer rate and packing densities will at least double future system speed and capacity.<>
Keywords :
magnetic tape storage; video recording; 0.5 in; 4 MByte/s; 4 TB; 6 GB; automated mass storage; broadcast video robotics; cassettes; data-transfer rate; drives; file management; host systems; industrial-quality drive mechanisms; packing densities; robotic assembly; storage; video magnetic tape; Costs; Digital video broadcasting; Instruments; Memory; Robotic assembly; Service robots; Storage automation; Supercomputers; Video recording; Winches;
Conference_Titel :
Mass Storage Systems, 1990. Crisis in Mass Storage. Digest of Papers., Tenth IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Monterey, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2034-X
DOI :
10.1109/MASS.1990.113569
