Optical Drives and Optical Jukeboxes

Today’s optical drives offer an alternative to traditional tape data backup and archiving. Whether backup is for a personal computer or an enterprise server, optical drives are a cost effective and fast way to store large quantities of data. Optical jukebox technology and DVD media is very inexpensive and easily interchangeable with CD ROM or CD-R drives. 

There are many benefits of using optical drives for data storage:
· Low ownership cost
· Disks have an approximate 50 year achieve life
· Data can typically be accessed in less than 10 seconds
· WORM (write-once-read-many) or rewritable media
· Low power usage

One of the most prominent manufactures of optical jukeboxes is Hewlett Packard. The HP family of optical jukeboxes includes:

· HP Surestore 700MX Optical Jukebox: 76 slots, 2 optical drives, and 691.6 GB total capacity
· HP Surestore 600MX Optical Jukebox: 64 slots, 4 optical drives, and 582.4 GB total capacity
· HP SURESTORE 5200EX: 1 slot, 1 drive, and 5.2GB total capacity
· HP Surestore 300MX Optical Jukebox : 32 slots, 2 optical drives, and 291.2 GB total capacity
· HP Surestore 220MX Optical Jukebox: 24 slots, 1 or 2 optical drives, and 218.4 GB total capacity
· HP Surestore 1200MX Optical Jukebox: 128 slots, 4 or 6 multifunction drives, and 1164 GB total capacity
· HP SURESTORE 9100MX: 1 slot, 1 drive and 9.1GB total capacity
· HP SURESTORE 2200MX: 238 slots, 4, 6, or 10 optical drives, 2165.8GB total capacity

Other manufactures of optical drives and optical jukeboxes include:
· IBM
· Plasmon
· Fujitsu
· MaxOptix
· Sony
· Pioneer

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