Patent ID: 8065276

Claim:
A system comprising a processor, for storing data on media, the system comprising: a media management module, residing on the processor, which communicates with a database that stores attributes of a plurality of media, and which selects media for writing in accordance with the attributes stored in said database, said media management module designating a quantity of said plurality of media as being in a writable state, said quantity being equal to a concurrency value; and a migration module which communicates with a storage device, said storage device including a plurality of drives which write data to said media, said migration module receiving an indication of a selected medium from said media management module and writing data to the selected medium using said storage device, said plurality of media comprising double-sided media, each side of said media being designatable as being in either a writeable state or a non-writeable state, and the media management module further comprises logic which selects a medium based on which of said plurality of media has a side in the non-writeable state.