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In article <29194@pbhya.PacBell.COM> dbsuther@PacBell.COM (Daniel B. Suthers) writes:

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>The faster drives are noticeably faster.  If you are useing file based
>based utilities such as arc, a compiler, MTC (a multi tasking shell), or
>Minix you will notice a VAST improvement ( about 4 times faster ).  Many 
>graphics programs also write to the disk often.
>

I would have to say that a drive's transfer rate make more of a difference
than the average access time.  Unless you are doing intensive database work
which requires a lot of seeks or you have a badly fragged hard disk, the
transfer rate will make more of a difference.  Compare a ST506/412's
5Mbit/sec to something like an Imprimis 94181-702M's 15-24Mbit/sec (ain't
sure on this one but it's somewhere in that neighborhood).  The Imprimis
will just blow your socks off.
 
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>The FROG drive appears to be based on the Syquest drives.  I have used their
>10 meg disks, and find them to be usable, but pretty fragile.  You can lose
>a disk by dropping it 2 feet onto a desk.  The ones I used were also VERY
>susceptible to power hits.  A 1 second outage was guaranteed to cause data
>corruption.  A suprising feature was that the drives also are sensitive 
>about their orientation.  They don't work well on their sides.
>

I have not used the SyQuest 10MB cartridge drives but I have used the 44MB
cartridge drives and find them to be quite reliable.  Sure, you wouldn't
want to risk a cartridge by dropping it two feet but then again, would you
do the same to your fixed hard disk?  The SyQuest 44MB drives are
auto-parking so power failures have little effect.  They also work well on
their sides.  Look at PLI's 44MB drive.  They are suppose to work on their
sides!

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>Dan Suthers
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I am putting together a 44MB drive for a friend this weekend.  Will report
on how it runs on the ST.  Should be fairly decent in any event.

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