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Ultra Density Optical (UDO)
UDO drives are designed specifically to meet the demands of professional archival storage environments. High duty cycles ensure their suitability for continuous, long-term use with certified ratings in excess of 750,000 load/unload cycles (MSBF) and 100,000 hours of operation (MTBF). The seek and read/write performance of UDO drives have been optimized for archive requirements. A 35 millisecond seek time delivers very fast random access to data. Maximum sustained read and write speeds are 8MB/sec and 4MB/sec (with full verification) respectively and with media load times of a few seconds, access to data stored in an automated UDO library can be achieved in a few seconds. UDO drives support read and write operations on all 30GB Rewritable and Write Once UDO media, and use an industry standard half-height form factor, which offers simple integration into automated libraries, computer systems or as a stand-alone Desktop Drive. UDO Drives Specifications Summary
What is
Ultra Density Optical (UDO)?
 UDO is the next generation of
5.25" professional optical storage technology. It is a convergent technology
that delivers the performance of 5.25" MO, the longevity of 12-inch Write
Once, and the cost effectiveness of DVD. It utilizes violet laser and phase
change media recording technology to provide a quantum leap in data storage
densities. First generation UDO products will be 30GB capacity and are
scheduled to ship in August 2003. Future generations will increase capacity
to 60GB and 120GB and will provide full backward read compatibility. Both
Write Once and rewritable media will be available and the cartridge will be
physically identical to 5.25" MO to maintain library compatibility. Target
markets include archiving, document imaging, call centers, e-mail archiving,
GIS, medical, telecom, banking, insurance, legal and government.
UDO is the application of Blu-ray consumer recording technology to the professional optical storage market. Blu-ray is the proposed successor to DVD and uses phase change recording technology to provide the storage capacity to record a full-length HDTV video. The use of violet lasers and high NA optics dramatically increases data storage densities and necessitates a new type of disk construction with a 0.1mm cover layer to protect the data surface. As with existing MO technology, UDO uses non contact recording to provide robust and reliable performance.
Plasmon has partnered with Asahi Pentax to develop the opto-mechanical assembly (OMA) for their UDO drive. Pentax is a leading manufacturer of precision 5.25" drive OMAs that are rated at over 750,000 MSBF and provide UDO drives with the reliability for professional data archival markets. UDO drives are standard half-height format and use a media cartridge physically identical to 5.25" MO. This provides compatibility with current library automation systems, but UDO drives will not be backwards compatible with current MO technology. Write Once
and Rewritable Media
Cost
Effective Storage Markets and
Applications
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