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- From: olafn@inbit.ibt.unit.no (Olaf F. Normann)
- Subject: Re: Magneto Optical ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.123717.27860@ugle.unit.no>
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- Organization: IBT
- References: <1992Nov17.144352.1@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 12:37:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.144352.1@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>, proesmsf@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:
- |> Hi,
- |>
- |> looking for a new Hd, i stumbled on to the magneto optical drive of
- |> 128 Mb, in this case...can't remember the vendor. Could you guys comment
- |> on this kind of mechanism, own experiences and so ? The actual device i
- |> got to see had a access time of 35 ms..Yes !? The drive/disk of 128Mb
- |> can be purchased seperartely, a good point...of course only as long as
- |> the technology is standard and will be maintained for another decenium.
- |> I figured it was meant for backing up other HD's. And again, any stories
- |> about this beast ?
- |>
- |> thanks in advance,
- |> Frank ( proesmsf@esat.kuleuven.ac.be)
- |>
- We have several 1 GB Magneto-optical drives from Macinstor. Our experience
- is that these drives is very slow: (aver. read: 33 msek, aver. write: 130 msek).
- We would never
- use these drives as the primary harddisk on a computer. We use them for
- storing big images (for our reseach).
- Another problem on these drives is that they crash rather often. Maybe that
- this is not a problem on other magneto-optical mecanisms. We have heard about
- a 650 MB M-O drive, which is more robust.
-
- Best regards:
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