Title :
Automated optical mass storage system with 3-beam magneto-optical disk drives
Author :
Yamada, Ichiro ; Saito, Minoru ; Watabe, Akinori ; Itao, Kiyoshi
Author_Institution :
NTT Corp., Tokyo, Japan
fDate :
7/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
An automated optical mass storage system (optical MSS) with high-speed magnetooptical (MO) disk drives has been developed. It features a high data transfer rate for writing with the use of the 130-mm ISO standard MO disk, and disk cartridges with high storage efficiency. As the key device, a high-speed MO disk drive has been developed. It provides a high-speed data writing capability of about ten times that of conventional MO disk drives. The optical MSS provides a data transfer rate for reading and writing of 2.1 MB/s, a storage capacity of 250 GB to 1 TB, and an average cartridge handling time of 5 s. From performance simulations, the optical MSS is proved to be applicable to a low-traffic random-access file that stores multimedia data and a high-speed direct-access storage device (DASD) backup file
Keywords :
magneto-optical recording; optical disc storage; 2.1 MB/s; 250 Gbits to 1 Tbits; 3-beam magneto-optical disk drives; 5 s; automated optical mass storage system; backup file; high data transfer rate; high-speed data writing capability; high-speed direct-access storage device; low-traffic random-access file; stores multimedia data; Disk drives; Disk recording; High speed optical techniques; Image databases; Image storage; Libraries; Optical design; Optical recording; Storage automation; Writing;
Journal_Title :
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
