Automated optical mass storage system with 3-beam magneto-optical disk drives

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-sp...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on magnetics 1993-07, Vol.29 (4), p.2172-2176
Main Authors: Yamada, I., Saito, M., Watabe, A., Itao, K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Disk drives
Disk recording
Electronics
Exact sciences and technology
High speed optical techniques
Image databases
Image storage
Libraries
Magnetic and optical mass memories
Optical design
Optical recording
Storage and reproduction of information
Storage automation
Writing
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Summary: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.< >
ISSN:0018-9464
1941-0069
DOI:10.1109/20.221041