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In article <2jg2!0b@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes:
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>The Pinnacle-based 128meg MO drives have access times down in the 19ms  
>range, which makes them quite nice.  (I intend to order one next week...).   
>If the 512meg ones become real, and come in with performance like that,  
>they'll be *really* nice devices to have.
>
I'm not possitive about my specs as they are not handy but the way I
understand it the MOST 256meg 3.5' mechanism is the fastest when comparing
seek time and data transfer rate.  The Pinnacle-based drive uses DRAM
to buffer data enough to give a better access time but I don't think that
the over all data transfer rate is any better than other 128 meg opticals
with the exception of DGR's turbo 128 (uses a MOST 128 mechanism).
On the other hand the new MOST mechanism at least doubles the seek time of all
the other 128's.  This I'm fairly sure about.  Maybe someone more
technically minded could speak up to clear the confusion since I probably
can't explain this any more adaquately at this time.

Also, 512 meg is the next logical progression so it is safe to assume it
is being worked on although from what I've heard it is a few years down 
the road.  If you think about it for a moment MOST was the first to produce
the 128 and now they are the first to produce the 256--see a pattern?
Just kidding but you never know.


maurices