March 1994 / State Of The Art

Managing Mass Storage	As processors become more powerful, networks more ubiquitous, and data types more rich and varied, storage technologies struggle to keep pace - by Scott Wallace
Storage Hot Spots	Perhaps more than any other product, the jukebox is an enabling technology with a potent multiplier effect; it allows improvements in optical- and tape-storage drives to be multiplied many times over.
Digital Hard Drives Read Technology	Older analog read technologies are giving way to DSP-based digital read channels, which let you pack more data on your hard disk - by Peter Wayner
PRML at Work	PRML (partial-response maximum-likelihood) comes into play when noise skews one of the samples of the signal from the disk.
IDE Takes Off Advantages Of Enhanced IDE	The most popular method of connecting hard drives to PCs has just gotten a whole lot better - by John Bryan
SCSI vs. IDE	SCSI dates from a time when a small computer was roughly the size of your father's Oldsmobile.
Optical Advances MO Applications	With new laser, media, and signal-processing technologies, magneto-optical storage is primed for capacity growth rates rivaling that of magnetic disks - by David K. Campbell and Kraig Proehl

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