Re: Zip vs Syquest. Which?

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From: Malcolm Davies
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 00:00

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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.                   

Cheers - Malcolm

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