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In <1992Nov20.193123.5780@cs.nott.ac.uk> smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:

>I'd recommend that you take the Syquest option at the current time. Each
>cartridge holds at least twice as much as a Floptical, and they work at
>hard disc speed, rather than flopticals which work at roughly the same speed
>as floppy discs. Syquest cartridges are also very robust.

Flopticals work about 3 times as fast as floppy drives on ordinary floppy
media. I don't have the figures for floptical disks handy, but it is closer
to hard disk performance than you suggest. If access to ordinary floppies
and data portability is not a consideration, one of the best options is a
128 MB rewritable optical disk drive. The physical format of the disks is
completely standardised, so with the right software any such disk can be
used in any computer which has these drives. Syquest is out on a limb by
comparison. Make sure the SCSI driver handles removable media properly
(always dismount disks before removing them) or data will get lost whatever
drive is chosen.

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Adam David (adamd@rhi.hi.is)