视频服务专用的存储子系统

With the unprecedented proliferation of high-speed communication
services many people will have high-speed access to virtually unlimited
amounts of information in many forms of media. A tremendous amount of
research effort is being applied to the problems of how to provide these
multi-media services to tens and hundreds of thousands of concurrent
users. The I/O problems alone are significant and represent a form of
data intensive computing. This paper attempts to place analytical
boundaries on the problems of designing and building a scalable multimedia
storage server. The result is a compelling case for network
attached storage as well as a set of equations that can be used to estimate
the hardware requirements for such a system.