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jukebox

The term jukebox comes from the music box with record changer. The jukebox is a secondary storage system with a disk changer for optical and magneto-optical storage media.

A jukebox consists of a housing with slots for the optical data media, one or more drives for writing and reading the storage media, and a controllable changing mechanism. The removable mechanism picks up individual storage media from the slots and transports them to one of the drives. After writing or reading, the removable mechanism places the storage medium in the designated slot. UDO discs and Blu-Ray disc s are primarily used as storage media. With a storage capacity of 30 gigabytes( GB) for an Ultra Density Optical (UDO), a small UDO jukebox with 22 slots achieves a storage capacity of 660 GB; larger jukeboxes can achieve storage capacities of over 150 terabytes( TB).

Jukebox from InterNetTechnologies

Jukebox from InterNetTechnologies

A jukebox is used to store large amounts of data that rarely changes but needs to be available relatively quickly. Typically, a jukebox manages between 50 and 800 storage media, which it can access automatically. It provides access to an almost unlimited amount of data and is used for data archiving and data backup. Typical applications are text and image databases, software repositories, libraries for forms, collections of electronic journals and monthly reports, etc.

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Englisch: jukebox
Updated at: 20.06.2006
#Words: 213
Links: box, secondary storage, storage media, data, medium
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