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stieber@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Christian Stieber) writes:
>Randall Lasini (suicyde@eck.net.au) wrote:
>> 
>> My  problem is I have a psuedo CD rom via NFS/ethernet/PC-soundblaster and
>> it  is  only  single  spin  as  well.  What I would like to do is set up a
>> single  650M  partition  on  my  Harddrive(I am getting a 2gig soon), then
>> 'clone'  the  CD  across  the  network  and  put it locally so that I have
>> Standard  filesystem access to the CD's data.

>Hm... is a 4x speed CDROM really that expensive to warrant loosing 650MB
>of hard disk space? It sounds like a weird idea, because I always thought
>that HD space is more expensive...

A 2G drive is about A$200, i.e. 650M on a 2G drive are A$65. You can get
a nice used CD-ROM for that, but anything you can actually buy today will
set you back about A$100 (and be faster than 4X).

Of course, once you get up to 6G harddisks, things are looking even better.
The only advantage of the CD-ROM is that you can change the CD. If you don't
intend to do so, harddisk space is cheaper.

Bernie
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