CD-ROM Strengths & Weaknesses
Seek Performance: very bad
Data Transfer Rate: Not Terrible/Not Great
Storage Capacity: Great
- Benefit: enables us to build indexes and other support structures that can help overcome some of the limitations associated with CD-ROM’s poor performance.
Read-Only Access: There can’t be any changes ==> File organization can be optimized.
No need for interaction with the user (which requires a quick response)