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disk library

A storage system made up of disk drives. The term "library" more often refers to optical disc and magnetic tape libraries rather than arrays of magnetic disks (see storage array). See optical disc library and tape library.
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The RDX 8000 Removable Disk Library comes with up to eight removable disk-drive slots, enabling users to take data offsite to an archive, according to the company.
And Ziff-Davis has several new ventures--a recently-acquired shareware catalog, a CD-ROM demo disk library, and an on-line buying service--that are likely to coalesce into a true electronic distribution business.
Imaging software directs the request to the proper disk library, and the disk is inserted into a drive which reads the image and sends it over the network to the opertor's screen within seconds.
EMC sells two virtual tape libraries -- the DL3D 3000 and DL4000 -- that use rebranded deduplication software from Quantum and FalconStor and a disk-based backup appliance -- the Disk Library 3D 1500 -- that uses Quantum's software.
New enhancements to EMC NetWorker and EMC Avamar backup software and EMC Disk Library, for disk-based backup, help customers gain maximum efficiency of their storage environment by providing the right solution to solve their unique requirements based on scale, budget and use case.
Today, a new disk library category is evolving from these two traditional solutions.
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