Re: Comparisons of 2-gig AV drives?

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From: Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 19:13

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In article <nsx-2011950455130001@nsx-ppp.serv.net> nsx@serv.net (nsx) writes:

  the only AV-drives is from MICROPOLIS. The word AV means it is AUDIO
  VISUAL compatible, which requires no or little THERMAL recalibration.
  None of the drives in the market are AV compatible besides the Micropolis
  AV series.

Not quite.  Micropolis is the only manufacturer that has both AV and non-AV
models of the same drive, or sees a need to.

Most high capacity disk drives these days either use an embedded servo
technology to avoid thermal recalibration altogether, or have smart
algorithms which only recalibrate one head at a time and abort the tcal
operation if an I/O request comes in.  With multimedia and digital audio
and video some of the most important uses of high capacity hard drives, the
manufacturers would be crazy not to have AV compatible drives.

		Leonard

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