ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines how the transition from linear recording to nonlinear recording and playback have become well-accepted technologies, and in essence the new foundation for today's video recording, storage and server systems. It purposes the descriptions and technologies are intentionally focused on the resources typically available for professional broadcast "video server" applications, those deployed for long-form content and commercial or interstitial content. The chapter looks at the variances available in devices that "serve video" for broadcast, non-broadcast and emerging applications. It reviews the historical perspectives of the storage evolution; details the three fundamental types of drive structure configurations; and describes how various subsystems that manage the physical storage medium are applied to the drive configurations. The chapter also looks into the technologies and prominent methodologies for providing high performance, maintaining maximum resiliency and for protecting the assets in the event of component failures at the storage level of the ecosystem.
