Patent ID: 8824250

Claim:
An archive system for a double sided optical disc, comprising: a disc cartridge for keeping optical discs; a drive bay for mounting optical disc drives therein; and a disc picker robot for extracting the optical discs kept in the disc cartridge and inserting the extracted optical discs into the optical disc drives mounted in the drive bay, wherein first and second drive bays are respectively mounted at left and right sides of the disc picker robot, wherein an optical disc drive for recording or reading data on a first surface of a double sided optical disc and an optical disc drive for recording or reading data on a second surface of the double sided optical disc, which form a pair, are repetitively mounted in the first and second drive bays, wherein an insertion slot of each of the optical disc drives is not located at a center of the optical disc drive along a direction in which the disc picker robot moves, wherein one of an optical disc drive of the first drive bay and an optical disc drive of the second drive bay, which face the optical disc drive of the first drive bay, records or reads data on the first surface, and the other records or reads data on the second surface, and wherein, when two or more optical discs are simultaneously inserted in the disc picker robot, an interval between two optical discs inserted in the disc picker robot is identical to that between two optical disc drives, the two optical disc drives recording or reading data on surfaces in a same direction and being closest along a direction in which the disc picker robot moves, one of the two optical disc drives belonging to the first drive bay while the other of the two optical disc drives belongs to the second drive bay.