Patent ID: 6564290
Filing Date: 2003-05-13
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
Data storage unit, comprising an archive storage means with a storage unit for a plurality of data carrier cassettes, with at least one read/write unit for the data carrier cassettes and a transfer unit for transferring individual data carrier cassettes from the storage unit into the read/write unit and vice versa, said data storage unit further comprisingat least one hard disk memory for storing data, a data storage control for controlling the read/write unit and the transfer unit for the storage of data and for providing a long term storage of the data by means of data carrier cassettes, said data storage control operating the hard disk memory and the archive storage means in parallel, said data storage control being in data interchange communication with a computer in order to store data transferred from this computer or make available to the computer data stored in the data storage unit, a housing comprising a frame having two frame segments designed as flat parallelepipeds having flat sides which extend parallel to a vertical line, the archive storage means, the data storage control and the at least one hard disk memory being arranged and permanently installed in said frame, wherein the archive storage means is arranged in one frame segment and the data storage control and the at least one hard disk memory are arranged in the other frame segment, said data storage control being permanently operatively connected with the archive storage means and the at least one hard disk memory so as to be installable as a single data storage unit for communicating with the computer.