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In article 1jktneINNm67@shelley.u.washington.edu, stusoft@hardy.u.washington.edu (Stuart Denman) writes:
>hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:
>
>>One word of caution however... flopticals are nifty but they are s-l-o-w
>>compared to the speed and convenience of a typical hard disk.  I think they
>>would be great for backups but not ideal for your primary storage device.
>>This is IMHO and others here may voice different opinions, of course.
>
>They are a whole heck of a lot faster than floppies!  I can copy a 200,000
>byte file in just one 1/2 second read!  Not as fast as a hard drive, but
>it's no VW like you make it sound!  s-l-o-w is hardly the word I would
>use...I would say F-A-S-T...consider the medium...if the motor didn't have
>to get up to speed it would be almost as fast as a hard drive, I know, I
>have one!  With a good buffer, like the one with ICD Link, it can do all
>the repeated writing and reading at once, so it doesn't have to get up to
>speed, making it even faster!

Sorry, Stuart, but I rather understood from the original poster that he was
considering purchasing either a floptical or hard drive.  My intent with the
"s-l-o-w" remark was simply to insure he didn't expect hard disk performance
from a floptical (many folks assume that since it's 21Mb, it _must_ be fast).
Speed is always relative, and I was comparing it to hard drives, not floppies.

I agree, the floptical is faster than most other floppy drives, but I do NOT
think it is a wise choice for one's only PRIMARY storage.  Buy a hard disk
first; then when you can afford it, the floptical makes much more sense, IMHO.

Cheers,



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