Bernoulli Drives VS Floptical Drives (?)

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From: John J. Sasso Jr.
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 15:51

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Hello,

   On my i486 PC I have a 104M harddrive (SCSI), which has only 15M left on
   it.  Although I could buy another 100+M harddrive to get more storage, I
   was thinking of turning to removable storage (high capacity disks).  I was
   looking at floptical drives and Bernoulli drives.  From what I understand,
   (1) Bernoulli drives run about $500, and flopticals about $300, (2) the
   disks that come w/Bernoulli drives are usually 90M, whereas the disks for
   flopticals are 21M.  However, how do these two drives compare as far as 
   access time is concerned (as well as w/ harddrives)?  In the future, I plan
   on having over 200M worth of programs and data files that I'll have to 
   store.  So, should I get a floptical or Bernoulli drive?  I figure if I 
   buy either one, all I will have to spend money on is the disks, and not 
   have to spend hundreds of $$$ on another harddrive.

             -- John

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