Re: Zip vs Syquest. Which?

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From: Frank Jukes
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 00:00

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In article <na.a86f9c4747.a40080mdavies@argonet.co.uk>,
          mdavies@argonet.co.uk (Malcolm Davies) wrote:

> In article <19970104.200359.25@fjukes.demon.co.uk>, frank@fjukes.demon.co.uk
> (Frank Jukes) wrote:
> 
> >According to the box - 29 millisecond seek time, up to 20Mb per minute
> >transfer rate.
> >
> >In very vague terms, it seems much faster than a floppy and not a lot
> >slower than a Quantum Fireball.
> 
> I'd suggest that 20MB per minute (= 333k/sec) is quite a lot *slower*
> than a Quantum Fireball. Even my "cut price" SCSI + Fireball 1.2GB does
> around 1.6 MB/sec ie. around *5x as fast*, and I'd assume IDE was not much
> different.                   

I *did* say 'very vague' and 'seems', ie subjective judgements. The figures
were there as a more objective view.

I depends on what you're doing. Most of the time I'm shunting fairly small
files around so there's not a lot of difference to be noticed.

IMHO

Frank
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.. Where you stand depends on where you sit.

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Subject: Re: Zip vs Syquest. Which?
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