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CD-ROM server
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CD-ROM server
A CD-ROM reader designed for network use. It can be configured as a tower or jukebox. Towers contain several drives, and each drive holds one CD-ROM. Jukeboxes hold from a couple dozen to hundreds of discs, but have only a small number of drives. A robotic mechanism moves the discs to the drives as required. See CD-ROM changer.

CD-ROM Server
This is the transport mechanism of the Grundig GMS 3200 CD-ROM server. It can hold up to 200 CD-ROMs and six drives. (Image courtesy of Grundig Professional Electronics, GmbH.)


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While a SAN is a mini-network, NAS is simply a file-sharing storage device (such as a CD-ROM tower that contains multiple CD-ROM drives) connected to a corporate network or SAN to increase storage space.
Since Clark opened in 1998, Newcomer has stocked the school library's CD-ROM tower with resources covering myriad topics including great authors and historic events as well as full-text articles on almost any subject.
Everything we use was once in books, now it's on our network in our CD-ROM towers," says Sherry Velasquez, an information systems manager for the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Cruther in Los Angeles.
 
 
 
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