Storage systems for movies-on-demand video servers

• Published in: Proceedings of IEEE 14th Symposium on Mass Storage Systems pp. 246 - 256
• Main Authors: Chervenak, A.L., Patterson, D.A., Katz, R.H.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 1995
• Subjects: Bandwidth; Educational institutions; File servers; Libraries; Load management; Motion pictures; Prototypes; Streaming media; Video compression

We evaluate storage system alternatives for movies-on-demand video servers. We begin by characterizing the movies-on-demand workload. We briefly discuss performance in disk arrays. First, we study disk farms in which one movie is stored per disk. This is a simple scheme, but it wastes substantial di...