Tertiary storage devices provide huge storage capacity at low cost. Multimedia objects stored on the tertiary storage devices are accessed with high latency. Despite the high access latency, some tertiary storage devices are able to deliver data at high throughput. The time slicing method is designed to reduce the start-up latency in accessing multimedia objects from tertiary storage devices. The start-up latency is lowered by reducing the amount of data being migrated in stage one of the staging method being described in the last chapter. In order to support the time-slicing method, the tertiary storage devices should have the ability to deliver data at high throughput. The tertiary storage devices that cannot deliver data at sufficiently high throughput; the start-up latency cannot be reduced.
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