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Article #23467Re: floptical advice please!
From: John Hutchinson
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:01
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:01
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In article 11824@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu, dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dan Cable) writes: >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, that sounds like a great benchmark comparison. I'm sure several netters would be interested in noting your results. --- ___________________________ John "HUTCH" Hutchinson _________________________ _________________ Fair Dinkum Technologies Member - IAAD _______________ ________________ "No worries, mate... it's from Fair Dinkum!" _______________ ____________ email: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov GEnie: FAIR-DINKUM _____________
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!ilmen!hutch From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) Subject: Re: floptical advice please! Message-ID: <1993Jan26.170153.20750@newshost.lanl.gov> Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Reply-To: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory References: <1993Jan23.030839.11824@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:01:53 GMT Lines: 26