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Basic storage units have problems dealing with large multimedia data
- Single Hard Drives -- SCSI/IDE Drives. So called AV
(Audio-Visual) drives, which avoid thermal recalibration between
read/writes, are suitable for desktop multimedia. New drives are fast
enough for direct to disk audio and video capture. But not adequate for
commercial/professional Multimedia. Employed in RAID architectures
(Section 5.5.3)
- Removable Media -- Jaz/Zip Drives, CD-ROM, DVD. Conventional
(dying out?) floppies not adequate due 1.4 Mb capacity. Other media
usually ok for backup but usually suffer from worse performance than
single hard drives.
Dave Marshall
10/4/2001