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Article #12378Re: Do you *hate* Mac CD-ROM technology?
From: Tim W Smith
Date: Wed, 30 May 1990 19:52
Date: Wed, 30 May 1990 19:52
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Maurice Sharp writes: < Well, that is your fault for using a slow CDROM drive. I have < copied 60mb in significantly less time. Like move the folder over and < wait a few moments (possibly even a couple of minutes) then it is < done. Where do we get such a CD-ROM drive? I just copied a 50 meg folder from my Quantum 170 to my Quantum 80, both of which are a lot faster than any CD-ROM drive I have ever heard of, and it took about 14 minutes. You have a CD-ROM drive that goes faster than this? On the other hand, my 50 meg was split up among ~3000 files. Since the Mac usually copies about 5 files/second, we expect it to take at least 10 minutes to copy 3000 files, even if they are small. Was your 60 meg spread across only a few large files, or were there many small files? Tim Smith
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!usc!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!ts From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Do you *hate* Mac CD-ROM technology? Message-ID: <30337@cup.portal.com> Date: 30 May 90 19:52:44 GMT References: <779@limbo.Intuitive.Com> <9740@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990May25.015742.25489@calgary.uucp> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 18