A queuing architecture and method for scheduling disk drive access requests in a video server. The queuing architecture employs a controlled admission policy that determines how a new user is assigned to a specific disk drive in a disk drive array. The queuing architecture includes, for each disk drive,...http://www.google.de/patents/US7165140?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7165140 - Queuing architecture including a plurality of queues and associated method for controlling admission for disk access requests for video content