How many DVD movies and audio CDs can be stored on a Kaleidescape System?
A single Kaleidescape 1U Server fully loaded with four 1 TB Disk Cartridges can hold approximately 450 DVDs or 5,000 CDs. A single Kaleidescape 3U Server fully loaded with fourteen 1 TB Disk Cartridges can hold approximately 1,800 DVDs or 20,000 CDs. The exact numbers will vary depending on the specific DVDs and CDs that you import. Larger collections can be accommodated by clustering multiple Servers to act as one very large storage system. We believe that user interface performance will likely be the most important practical issue that will limit how many DVDs and CDs you can reasonably load and manage on a Kaleidescape System. We intend to continuously improve the Kaleidescape user interface to make it easier to deal with very large content collections. We expect that these improvements will eventually make it practical to have collections of well over 10,000 DVDs and CDs — perhaps up to several tens of thousands — on a single Kaleidescape System.
