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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!john.hendrikx
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 96 13:42:37 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- Subject: Re: A4000 HD Drive, FORGET IT!
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
- Message-ID: <john.hendrikx.46a9@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 12 Jan 96 Maxwell Daymon wrote to All:
-
- >>> 10 Jan 96 Maxwell Daymon wrote to All: : MD> Shed the floppy drive
- >>> while the Amiga market is small. Imagine our : MD> 'base' media being
- >>> 100MB in size and 70 times faster than a floppy.
-
- MD> : Eh, 70 times? Floppies aren't THAT slow you know :-)
-
- MD> Okay, 40 - 52 times faster.
-
- MD> I get like ~15K-20K/sec from my floppy, and almost 800K/sec from my
-
- 800K/sec? That's faster than I thought :-)
-
- MD> Zip. I haven't tested my floppy drive speed in a long time.
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- Raw reading speed is about 22 K/s from a floppy, although if you want to get
- these rates in real life you'd better use a good filesystem.
-
- Grtz John
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