The Optimem 1000 Optical Disk Drive

Abstract

The Optimem Division of Shugart Corporation has developed the Optimem 1000 optical disk drive to address the low end market for cost effective write-once optical storage systems. The Optimem 1000 is a 1 GByte per surface drive which is meant to compliment magnetic disk storage. Typical office type applications for this drive are electronic file cabinet storage, and CAD/CAM and medical image storage. In the document storage applications, the optical drive can be used as the central file server along with magnetic disk drives for work in progress.