December 1998

Finish Line

Rockville, MD 301-258-2000

www.hp-optical.com

Cost: $13,000

Media: 5.2 GB Magneto Optical

Drives: Two Sony

Slots: 76

Storage capacity: 395.2 GB

Write speed: 2.3 MB/sec

Disk load time: 5.5 seconds

Disk swap time: 8 to 9 seconds

Mean time between failure: 100,000 hours.

Test platform: Hewlett Packard E50 Netserver (300MHz Pentium II, 96 MB RAM), Adaptec 2940UW SCSI host adapter, Windows NT, Ixos Jukeman jukebox management software.

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