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While CD-ROM drive speeds keep increasing, the storage capacity of the disk itself has been limited to 650 megabytes for years. However, the first wave of DVD-ROM disks will be able to hold 4.7 gigabytes of data--that's more than seven times that of today's CD-ROM disks--using one side of a single-layered disk...
...last week's upgrade, HASCS transferred users' home directories and e-mail inboxes to a new disk array, or data storage system...
...disk array is also faster than the previous one and offers more room for future expansion. Users' directories currently use about 150 gigabytes of storage space, but the array has a maximum capacity of about 600 gigabytes, Osterberg said...
HASCS planned an 18-hour system shutdown last Saturday and Sunday to copy the directories from the existing storage space to the new disk array...
HASCS also performed an unscheduled system shutdown early Friday morning to resolve conflicts between the new disk array and e-mail software, Osterberg said...