
Glossary
Ablative. Ablative technology utilizes heat to remove
a layer of some material. In this context, it relates to
writing information with a laser by using the lasers
heat to burn away a layer of the recording medium,
thereby representing a binary value.
Access pattern skew. This refers to the tendency for
reference to information to follow a pattern whereby,
information is referenced from a certain area for
some time, then another area, then a further one,
rather than completely random jumps. Thus, if
information in a file was written sequentially across a
number of disks, utilization would tend towards one
disk at a time. If however, the file data ...