Optical Archive Organization and Strategies for the 90's

The advent of second-generation optical storage technology and user experience with PACS dictate a new look at PACS long-term database organization and optical archive strategy. Optical disk drives are becoming faster and more reliable, disks and jukeboxes can hold more data for their size, and the cost per byte of optical disk storage has dropped. Users are becoming more sophisticated in their use of PACS.