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In article <17300@rpp386.cactus.org> mark@rpp386.UUCP (Mark Lehmann) writes:
>Don't forget that the NeXT uses the optical storage disk.  That has to 
>slow it down terribly.  I know that an 800Mb 28ms drive is available, but it
>seems kind of silly to have both forms of media in the computer.  Especially
>if the optical drive available is only 550Mb.  It would probably be much
>better if the NeXT were to come with an 800Mb hard drive as the default 
>drive and use the Optical Drive just for removeable storage.  An entire
>Licensed Program Product would be available on one disk then and the ussual
>UNIX installation and upgrading nightmare would be avoided.

I think the optical drive holds 256Mb per cartridge, and that the hard-drives
are 600Mb (or perhaps 660?).  In any case, I believe NeXT just announced that
it will now put fast 40Mb (non-optical) paging drives on all cubes.  In fact,
I believe they're offering the 40Mb drive to current owners at no charge.
This is expected to make a big difference in optical-only system (i.e.: cubes
which don't have the 600Mb drive) performance.

Check out comp.sys.next for the full & accurate scoop.

(I don't own a NeXT.  Heck, I've never even SEEN one.  I'm just an interested
watcher from the sidelines.)
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