Researchers found a 10 percent to 100 percent increase in the number of simultaneous video streams, depending on the video server technology, the number of clients, and the bit rate of the video streams. In addition, the extra cache also improved server reliability when the client load was at the server's limits. Long a pioneer in high-performance hard disk drives, IBM is one of the first companies to introduce 4 MB of cache on its Ultrastar family of server disk drives. But the cache is only one performance enhancing property of Ultrastar drives. International customers must call from a fax machine.
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