Re: floptical advice please!

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From: Dan Cable
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:08

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u0h36@keele.ac.uk (Adam Turnbull) writes:

>stuff deleted

>The fact that they are slower than floppies is all that is putting me
>off - I don't have an existing hard drive, and I don't think a floptical
>rest deleted<

They are decidedly not slower than floppies. ICD's Ratehd reports 120ms
seek time and 99kbs data transfer. No way are the hard drive manufacturers
quaking in their boots about this performance, but its not all that bad.
If it will give you a better feeling for the speed, I could copy some
files, run a database sort, etc. and compare the times to a Syquest.

Dan

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