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Benchmarking tape system performance

Johnson et al., 1998

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Document ID
6708990596966747851
Author
Johnson T
Miller E
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Publication venue
Proc. of Joint NASA/IEEE Mass Storage Systems Symposium

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In spite of the rapid decrease in magnetic disk prices, tertiary storage (ie, removable media in a robotic storage library) is becoming increasingly popular. The fact that so much data can be stored encourages applications that use ever more massive data sets. Application drivers …
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