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Article #23133Re: floptical advice please!
From: John Henders
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 08:33
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 08:33
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In <1993Jan23.030839.11824@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Cable) writes: <on flopticals> >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. I just ran ratehd on my Syquest. It does 34ms seek time and 497kps transfer. My quantum does 24ms, and 1197kps. I think the floptical would be a good backup device, but it's so close in price to a hard dirve i doesn't seem that cost effective. -- John Henders Vancouver,BC
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!van-bc!jonh.wimsey.bc.ca!jhenders From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Distribution: tp Message-ID: <H.eg.pHrfzrGw_Ss@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> Organization: One of these days for sure X-News: HERMES MMAIL 1.10 Rev. Dec 15 1992 Subject: Re: floptical advice please! References: <11804@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <C19HMp.JIs@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> <1993Jan23.030839.11824@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:33:32 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 19