We have designed, built, and analyzed a distributed parallel storage system that will supply image streams fast enough to per- mit multi-user, "real-time", video-like applications in a wide-area ATM network-based Internet environment. We have based the implementation on user-level code in order to secure portability; we have characterized the performance bottlenecks arising from operating system and hardware issues, and based on this have optimized our design to make the best use of the available perfor- mance. Although at this time we have only operated with a few classes of data, the approach appears to be capable of providing a scalable, high-performance, and economical mechanism to pro- vide a data storage system for several classes of data (including mixed multimedia streams), and for applications (clients) that operate in a high-speed network environment.