olasov@cs.columbia.edu (Ben Olasov) (09/05/89)
Recently there's been a fair amount of discussion about large capacity storage devices such as Exabyte, etc. Most of the discussion I've heard re: laser disks has been from manufacturers. Their (laser disk manufacturers') point of view seems (naturally enough) to be that this is both a high performance and cost effective storage strategy. Their specifications, by and large, seem to support their claims. For example, laser disks can now be daisy chained and support true unix directory structures. Can anyone comment on the comparative merits of using laser disks as archive/ retrieval devices for large numbers of large files, such as raster image files? Ben olasov@cs.columbia.edu